Founder and Chief Communications Officer of Cornbread Hemp and Cornbread Mafia Author Jim Higdon discusses the critical federal threat to the $28.4 billion hemp industry posed by a minibus appropriations bill seeking to ban hemp-derived THC nationwide, noting the government shutdown provides a temporary advocacy opportunity and highlighting that Florida has three congressional members on the relevant conference committee. They also covered Florida's failed House Bill 7027, the appeals court ruling that cannabis odor is insufficient for probable cause, state-level restrictions on intoxicating hemp cannabinoids, and the need for the FDA to regulate the hemp market through a bill giving it authority