Talking The Hemp Ban | Devil's Cut w Kerry Hinkle
episodePreviously titled “Weeding Out Stagnation In The Hemp Industry | Devil's Cut w Kerry Hinkle” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 6, 2026
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Today on this Devil's Cut edition of Truth in the Barrel, we're talking with Kerry Hinkle, Director of National Policy at Bayou City Hemp, to talk about what's going on in the industry. Kerry, welcome. Hey, Amy, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. And I'll tell you, it's never a slow day in this crazy world of hemp. So I'm excited to see where we go with this. Well, actually, I think it's really important for people to just get the sense of what is hemp anyway and why should we care? I know it's really important for Kentucky and we'll talk about that. But like, what is it anyway? Does it help people? Yeah. That it does. And, you know, I've been in this industry now since before the 2018 Farm Bill was signed.
And I've seen it mature from when I used to work in a CBD shop and I would sell gross oil to my customers and say, you know, if it tastes bad, it works good kind of thing to where now we've evolved into... all kinds of form factors and supplement categories in that I can get hemp drinks, hemp topicals, capsules, you name it, hemp's got it. And the idea is that hemp is a supplement that helps people usually with sleep, anxiety, pain, all kinds of ailments. And it's just a natural alternative for a lot of folks. And When you talk about beverages, it might be an alternative to other substances. It might be like alcohol. When you talk about a tablet, it might be, you know, instead of taking a Xanax to sleep, I might take a CBD capsule or maybe I use a cream on my back after I get done playing basketball.
Does it relax you? What does it do for you? Yeah, it depends on the format you take, right? So if I rub a cream on my elbow, I'm not going to feel less relaxed, right? And so the complexity of the different form factors is also why we've struggled to get regulation at the federal level that I'm sure we'll touch on. But the general idea is, yes, wellness, anxiety relief, stress relief, all of these are components of CBD, which is the primary ingredient in hemp products, and also the THC. You've got to have both to have some kind of desired effect. Okay. And this is a crop that was really important for Kentucky. And there was some regulation that was tried to happen at the federal level around 2018 in the farm bill.
And can you talk a little bit about that? Why regulation is so important and what was done in 2018 and kind of bring us to where we're at today? Yeah. So actually, in 2014, we had a pilot program in the Farm Bill, which allowed some states like Kentucky to do a test with through colleges and universities of doing trials.
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