# Senator McConnell's language is not a ban of the Hemp Industry | Victory Hemp Foods

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## Author
Chad Rosen

## Subject
Victory Hemp Foods

## Content
There’s a lot of noise and headlines about Senator McConnell’s proposed language targeting intoxicating hemp products. The headlines are dramatic. Some are already calling it a “ban on hemp.” We understand why people are frightened.We are deeply sympathetic to the employees and farmers of companies in this segment of the hemp industry who may now be facing uncertainty. Many of these folks are just working hard, growing a crop, and trying to make a life.But let’s be clear about something that has been lost in the conversation:This is not a ban on hemp.This is a targeted response to intoxicating products being produced and sold under a loophole created in the 2018 Farm Bill. Whatever one believes about legalization or personal choice, those products were not the intended focus of the Farm Bill.And here’s the part that matters for us, and for the future of hemp: The provision explicitly protects grain, fiber, seed stock, and food ingredients.This is our business.We produce food ingredients from the hemp seed. We do not produce intoxicating products. Our ingredients are well-established, safe, functional, and recognized by the FDA as Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS). We are not going out of business.So why am I taking the time to address something that “doesn’t affect my business”?Because it does.I’m fielding calls from investors, customers, and farmers asking me if it’s over. If they should worry. If they should get out now. And I have to tell them something that may be hard to hear: They’ve been misled.The loudest voices claiming the industry is being “banned” are the same voices who built their business models on a loophole — selling intoxicating cannabinoids under the label of “hemp.” Their panic is real, but it is not representative of the hemp industry as a whole.In fact, the long-term economic engine in hemp has always been grain and fiber. A 50-acre cannabinoid crop can supply a $50M retail market. That sounds impressive, but ask yourself:How much of that goes to the farmer?Almost none.Meanwhile, grain and fiber will power multi-hundred-billion-dollar markets:• Food• Protein ingredients• Oilseed supply chains• Building and construction materials• Bioplastics• Textiles• Low-carbon fuels• Soil regeneration and rotational agriculture systemsThat is where the real economic transformation lies. That is where farmers get paid. That is where rural communities grow. And that is where the hemp industry becomes a mature, durable part of American agriculture.