Pa.’s attorney general is backing a hemp product ban. The industry says it goes way too far.

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. “Livelihoods are going to be destroyed, and people are now going to lose safe consumer access,” Jake Sitler, president of the Pennsylvania Hemp and Cannabis Guild, said. But national industry group U.S. Hemp Roundtable predicts about 95% of the hemp consumable marketplace would be eliminated under the new federal statute. He told Spotlight PA that none of the $400,000 in hemp he sells annually from his Adams County farm is sold to a company making intoxicating products. BEFORE YOU GO … If you learned something from this article, pay it forward and contribute to Spotlight PA at spotlightpa.org/donate.