On Tuesday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) launched a bill to modernize the hemp industry, create particular rules and promote federal research into a wide range of potential crop applications.

Among other areas of investigation, it would require research into everything from the use of hemp food products for public school lunches to the potential therapeutic value of crop extracts for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, including its capacity to remove contaminants from nuclear sites.

The “Hemp for Victory Act” law also focuses on plant studies as an alternative to plastics and its capacity to avoid soil erosion. And it would set up grant programs to develop research on the potential of hemp as a national farm commodity and to generate instruments to safeguard increasing farms.

While hemp and its derivatives were legalized federally by the 2018 Farm Bill, the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) are actively creating crop laws. The USDA guidelines are anticipated to be published before the planting season 2020, and the FDA has stated that laws establishing the legal marketing of hemp as food items or dietary supplements may take years without congressional action.

Source: MARIJUANA MOMENT