Advocates for hemp on Wednesday decried a provision of the Republican government funding law signed by President Donald Trump that tightens restrictions on the versatile plant — a move critics say will devastate a $30 billion industry.

Part of the Senate-passed government funding bill will see many THC-infused products banned, by tightening legislation in the 2018 Farm Bill.

A last-minute amendment slipped into the bill that ended the government shutdown has thrown the hemp industry and its consumers into a panic as popular products stand to be banned in a year’s

Hemp growers, customers, and supporters gathered outside Sen. Mitch McConnell's office in Lexington Friday to protest strict new THC limitations they say will upend a market that's taken a decade to build.

Popular THC-infused drinks and edibles may disappear from store shelves in the next year as Congress is on the verge of passing a ban on nearly all hemp-derived THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol,

The restrictions on hemp-derived THC, the psychoactive compound found in cannabis, threaten to wipe out an industry worth approximately $30 billion, critics say.

President Trump signed the Agriculture Appropriations Bill on Wednesday, which included language regarding hemp products. The language was added by McConnell and prohibits the sale of THC higher than 0.4 milligrams per container. Abraham Phillips, a 23-year-old fifth-generation Kentucky farmer, said the restrictions threaten his livelihood.

Legal experts say implementation is ultimately up to each state, including in New York, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2021.

Congress' stopgap funding bill added a provision banning almost all hemp, which threatens $28 billion hemp industry and has sent companies scrambling.