Name: Government shutdown deal will end Minnesota hemp industry
Uploaded: 2025-11-14T03:38:52.175Z
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Description: The deal that ended the government shutdown will end the Minnesota hemp industry in one year.

The deal that ended the government shutdown will end the Minnesota hemp industry in one year.

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The U.S. House passed a funding bill that ended the longest federal government shutdown in history, but the legislation includes a provision making intoxicating hemp products federally illegal. This change gives Minnesota's $200 million hemp industry one year before the ban takes effect, impacting breweries, liquor stores, and hundreds of businesses that have invested in THC beverages.

Industry leaders and business owners in Minnesota are now seeking solutions, including new regulations to address lawmakers' safety concerns. However, many in the hemp industry remain pessimistic about their future, as the new law would restrict sales to licensed cannabis retailers and exclude traditional outlets like liquor stores.

Government shutdown deal will end Minnesota hemp industry

on this vote. The A's are 222. The Nays are 209. The bill is passed. Well, the federal government is back open after a vote in the House last night. That vote ended what was the longest shutdown in the government ever. After 43 days, two Republicans voted against the funding bill and six Democrats voted for it. But even with that shutdown now formally over, it will take a little while for things to return to normal. That goes especially for air travel, with air traffic controllers still waiting for their paychecks. The F. A. Is holding steady with flight cuts, ordering airlines to call off 6% of their trips until further notice. So far today, 32 flights have been delayed at MSP International and another 32 have been canceled. Another effect of that bill that reopened the federal government. Minnesota's $200 million hemp industry has a year to live. A provision in that bill makes intoxicating hemp products federally illegal. Those in the hemp business will now scramble to figure out a solution before that change kicks in. Fox nine's corn hogger joins us from Utipil's cooling tonight. And so corn, this is, you know, this is a very disappointing blow to breweries and liquor stores around Minnesota that have been reaping the benefits of these drinks. Yeah, Kelsey and Randy, this essentially means that they're gonna lose a big chunk of their business as soon as the law takes effect, which is planned for one year from now. THC beverages hit big at just the right time for beer makers like Dan Justice in Utipil's in Minneapolis. We've seen significant volume drops in beer being sold to the hospitality industry, bars, restaurants. Um, and we're also seeing drops in sales to, uh, off premise liquor stores in the span of two years since they joined the bandwagon. THC beverages have grown to more than 15% of the business at Utipil's. Like a lot of Minnesota brewers, they make their own line and also can THC drinks for national brands, which gets sold at stores like Top 10 Liquors. It's become almost 15% of our overall sales, so it's become a tremendous amount of what we do. They're a bright spot in an otherwise shrinking business, so Top 10 makes a lot of space to display the drinks, and hundreds of businesses have applied for Minnesota hemp business licenses. Utipil's even went all in to buy faster canning machinery this year. For most people who have just spent a year getting ready for licensure, um, setting up their operations, renting out facilities for us, investing in new equipment. Um, that's a disaster. Cannabis products could still exist in states with legalized marijuana, but they could only be sold by licensed cannabis retailers, not a liquor stores and not through traditional banking systems. So it spells the end for hemp derived products. This is a ban at this point, and if we can't get the government to enact law to allow the category to exist, it won't exist a year from now. So it is a real threat. And so people in the industry are trying to come up with a new law with regulations that would ease some of the safety concerns that lawmakers express, like keeping it out of the hands of Children or people who are already intoxicated. But I gotta tell you, I've talked to a lot of people in the hemp industry over the last few weeks and months. Not a lot of them are very hopeful that this industry will actually exist a year from now. Live in Minneapolis, foreign hogger Fox nine.

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