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U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE SCHEDULES HEARING ON HEMP

July 22, 2019

"The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will hold its first hearing regarding the production of hemp and hemp-derived products on July 25. Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and ranking member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced the hearing on July 17.

The hearing, titled “Hemp Production and the 2018 Farm Bill,” will feature testimony from a variety of department heads and agricultural leaders. One of the many panel members scheduled to go before the committee is Dr. Amy Abernethy, Principal Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drugs for the U.S Food & Drugs Administration (FDA).

“I am honored to be called by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry to testify next week (7/25) on “Hemp Production and the 2018 Farm Bill,” Abernethy stated in a tweet. “As FDA, we recognize how important the topics of hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) are to Americans.”

No agenda was declared for the hearing, but the hearing announcement did include a list of witnesses in two discussion panels. In addition to Abernathy, the following are scheduled to be witnesses during the hearing: Greg Ibach, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Stephen Alexander Vaden, General Counsel for the USDA, and Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.

Other witnesses include Kentucky farmer Brian Furnish, Executive Director of National Hemp Association Erica Stark, and Darrell G. Seki, Sr., Tribal Chairman, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The hearing is scheduled to be live webcast at ag.senate.gov.

The congressional hearing on hemp comes two days after the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will meet to discuss marijuana banking issues on July 23. Last week, a House Judiciary subcommittee held the first-ever hearing on ending federal marijuana prohibition."

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