Rand Paul

I got like 20-something votes, and 70 of them voted.

But they voted to set the limit and to change the amount of THC in the plant.

So all the plants are illegal now.

All the seeds are illegal.

There's a real industry of farmers who grow this.

And the thing is,

Who are we to tell somebody who can't sleep at night that an Ambien is better for them than taking a hemp gummy to go sleep at night?

Or a veteran who could take Percocet or some kind of psychotropic drug or who has anxiety or post-traumatic stress and we're going to tell them they can't take a hemp gummy.

I think it's insane and very much, you know, this presumption that we know what's best for everyone.

Is this the alcohol lobby?

There was a little bit of the alcohol lobby and the cannabis lobby.

The cannabis people hate the hemp people.

The cannabis people hate the hemp people.

Well, it's complicated.

The cannabis industry developed state by state, and you really can't make a marijuana product in Colorado and sell it in Kentucky.

It can't go across state lines.

The hemp, because it was legalized nationally, they were selling it across state lines, so

We have big companies now that sell the hemp gummies.

You can order them through the mail across state lines until this law came about.

And McConnell always felt it was an unintended consequence.