Prohibitionist U.S. Rep. Andy Harris is at it again, and this time he wants your sleep gummies to be illegal.
The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Bill provides a total discretionary allocation of $25.523 billion. The bill is said to prioritize “agencies and programs that protect our nation’s food and drug supply; support America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural communities; and ensure low-income Americans have access to nutrition programs.”
All of that sounds fine, right? Except that Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) is trying to slip his own language into that mammoth, 132 page spending bill, that would make anything with any amount of THC in it… illegal everywhere.
Andy Harris is an anesthesiologist from Maryland. He’s one of the MDs that was recommending hydroxychloroquine and prescribing Ivermectin to treat Covid-19, even though the FDA said neither was approved for such treatment. So, when Andy asserts that THC-anything is a “gateway drug,” maybe we should take his views with at least a grain of salt, maybe two?
We’ve had irrational, prohibitionist laws related to THC my entire life, and I’m 64. Finally, in 2018, a bi-partisan bill, backed my Mitch McConnell was signed by President Trump, and it created a legal definition for legal “hemp.” It wasn’t what the cannabis industry wanted, but it was s step in the right direction.
Called, “The Farm Bill of 2018,” it established a legal definition for hemp: “… containing less than 0.3% Delta-9 THC by dry weight,” then it was to be federally legal. More THC than 0.3% and it remained federally illegal.
It’s a pretty simple rule and it’s been working for the last seven years.
That was seven years ago, and since then a $3 billion a year industry has been built, which is why you can now legally buy a gummy that helps you sleep. Some make the point that regulation is needed, and that sounds fine to almost everyone. But, that’s not what Rep. Andy Harris wants at all.
Let’s be blunt about this: What Andy Harris knows about THC would fill a thimble.
As an anesthesiologist, Harris wants drugs to be FDA approved, unless it’s Covid and he wants to prescribe Ivermectin, in which case he doesn’t care what the FDA thinks. He’s fine pumping Big Pharma’s chemical cocktails, like fentanyl and Oxy, and we know how well those have worked out.
Harris brings up how he’s trying to protect the children, which is what politicians often say… right before they take away the rights of adults.
No one wants children using THC or drinking alcohol. Let’s not let that happen, by all means. Do we need to make my sleep gummy illegal in order to protect the children?
Harris thinks THC should be illegal in all cases, no matter what. No matter that 88 percent of Americans want legal cannabis for either medical or recreational purposes. Forty states already have legal cannabis for medical purposes and in 24 it’s legal for recreational use… for adults. No one is advocating that children use THC ever.
Rep. Andy Harris, however, wants his opinions to be the law of the land. If I have cancer and am going through chemotherapy, and THC is helping me, Andy doesn’t care. He’d rather see me get arrested.
So, I’m sorry, but in a phrase, F#@K REP. ANDY HARRIS.
It’s 2025 and I don’t need Andy Harris’ opinions dictating whether I can take a THC gummy to help me sleep.
I don’t need Andy, or any other fringe politician for that matter, telling me what I can and can’t do. President Trump signed a bipartisan bill to finally define THC as being legal in small amounts. And now, Rep. Andy Harris says that everyone else was wrong and he alone is right because he knows best… oh, and something about the children, as if there’s a side that doesn’t want to protect children.
We. at Deltrium, are done with the nonsense. Leave the Farm Bill of 2018 alone. We don’t need to shut down a $3 billion industry just to return to the days when anything THC had to be purchased on the black market.
Don’t destroy an entire industry in its eighth year because an anesthesiologist from Maryland thinks something.
Eighty-eight percent of Americans want THC to be legal, either for medical purposes or recreationally, along with some common sense regulations, like those preventing children from buying products at gas stations, as Mr. Harris claims is happening. Everyone wants to stop children from purchasing THC products at gas stations, as long as it doesn’t prevent me from buying my THC sleep gummy, capisce?
Are you wondering what you can do about any of this?
Well, I’m about to tell you. Here’s a link to a site that makes it super easy to write a letter to your elected representatives that express your opposition to Rep. Harris dictating whether you can take a THC gummy to help you sleep.
Her’s the link: STOP THE ATTACK ON LEGAL HEMP
It makes it super easy to write the letter to your elected representatives in order to express your displeasure with politicians telling you what you can and can’t do when it comes to using THC. It only takes a minute or two. Let’s do this.
STOP THE ATTACK ON LEGAL HEMP!
Do it today. And, thank you!
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