Chattanooga Businesses Grapple With New TN Hemp Limits To Take Effect July 1
The Tennessee law passed largely on partisan lines
With the highest concentration of hemp shops per capita of any Tennessee city, Chattanooga is home to a variety of businesses bracing for a new state law that will ban some of the most popular forms of hemp.
“Legislators didn’t listen to the needs of the industry and community and decided to pass legislation that would eventually close the doors on the hemp industry in Tennessee,” said Chris Sumrell, who grows hemp and owns the hemp store FarmToMed in Chattanooga. “I don’t see any future for FarmToMed in the hemp industry in Tennessee under this legislation.”
The hemp business has grown in Tennessee and Chattanooga since 2018, when the U.S. Congress passed a farm bill legalizing some hemp-derived products.
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