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Take Action: Biggest 2026 Supplement Threats

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The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

By The ANH Team 
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The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

We’re up to our knees working on which policies will have the biggest impact on your supplement access in 2026. Let’s make sure we get the best possible outcomes to assure your access to the health products you need. Action Alert!

THE TOPLINE

  • 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for supplement access, with multiple federal and state policies advancing that could sharply limit consumer choice.
  • Major federal threats include FDA moves on GRAS reform, Senator Durbin’s supplement “listing” bill, and stricter New Dietary Ingredient rules, all of which could raise costs, eliminate thousands of products, and give the FDA broad new tools to restrict supplements.
  • State-level bills targeting youth access to weight loss and muscle-building supplements could unintentionally restrict common nutrients for everyone, reducing visibility and availability of safe, beneficial products and undermining public health rather than protecting it.

We’re off to a blazing start in 2026, which is looking very likely to be a pivotal year for health freedom. We have lots of irons in the fire—we’ve been telling you about our ongoing legal efforts to open up free speech about the benefits of supplements and to protect natural medicines like homeopathy, CBD, natural desiccated thyroid, and peptides. But bad policies are also moving forward on multiple fronts that require your sustained grassroots opposition.  

Here’s a survey of the top initiatives we have our eyes on in 2026:

The ‘GRAS’ Isn’t Always Greener

An FDA rule is due to be issued any time now that will make big changes to the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) pathway by which certain food and many dietary supplement ingredients enter the market. It’s been an oft-stated priority for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and it has been included (as the first item) on a list of 2026 deliverables at the FDA.

We’ve written many articles about this topic in the last year, including providing a white paper on the subject that explains in details how GRAS reform can be done without massively reducing consumer choice and chilling innovation. The main issue at play is the “loophole” by which companies can self-certify ingredients as GRAS (or, “self-GRAS”) without any transparency or FDA review. As we’ve explained in our own blueprint for GRAS reform, we agree that more transparency is needed, but we can’t “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and eliminate self-GRAS entirely, as we’re afraid the FDA is on the verge of doing. Self-GRAS is in fact how many safe, natural supplement ingredients come to the market, so eliminating it will have major ramifications for supplement access.

We are still working on influencing key people in the administration to guide GRAS reform to ensure continued access to health-promoting products.

Supplement Choices Going…Going…Gone!

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has once again introduced his anti-supplement listing bill. We discussed this in last week’s coverage. In short, what sounds like an innocuous transparency measure could actually have a major impact on your supplement access, threatening high-dose products and innovative formulations, raising prices, and reducing choice. The bill gives the FDA a hit list that it can use to attack supplements that haven’t complied with its overreaching policies. It’s been a bad idea for a long time. We’ve beaten Sen. Durbin before, and we can do it again, but only with your help.

State-based Threats

A number of states are considering bills that would prohibit the sale of weight loss and muscle building supplements to those under the age of 18. These bills use vague definitions that could sweep in a wide range of supplements—including protein powders, hormones, and essential nutrients—risking unnecessary restrictions on products unrelated to weight loss, even during a public health crisis.

Some proponents argue that these measures are needed to protect children from “unhealthy weight control behavior,” which are risk factors for eating disorders. This is a noble goal, but the language in these bills casts a wide net that could limit access to products that have nothing to do with weight loss. Additionally, some of these bills require restricting access to these products by placing them behind a counter or in a locked case, so access for everyone, not just minors, is restricted. Hidden from a customer’s view, some people may never become aware of a product that would perfectly suit their health needs—or be too intimidated to ask for it.

The result is reduced access to beneficial products for all consumers, which undermines—not protects—public health.

We’ve identified several states considering these bills. Click your state’s link to take action.

Alaska

Hawaii

Illinois

Massachusetts

Michigan

New Hampshire

Washington

New Dietary Ingredients

This threat has been simmering for a long time at the FDA. The law calls for all “new” (that is, post-1994) supplements that come to the market to comply with “new dietary ingredient” (NDI) requirements. Yet the FDA has turned what was supposed to be a notification process into a complicated and expensive pre-market approval process for all “new” supplements. And to make it worse, the agency has adopted an exceedingly broad view of what counts as a “new” supplement. When we asked a legal scholar and economist to estimate the market impact of the FDA’s NDI rules, the results were astounding:

  • as many as 41,700 products disappearing from store shelves;
  • an industry-wide cost of between $2 billion and $165 billion in animal and human product safety studies to comply with the FDA’s NDI notification protocols; and
  • the loss of between 55,270 and 104,475 jobs in the supplement industry.

“Regulation of New Dietary Ingredients” was another item on the FDA’s list of 2026 deliverables, so we will be on the lookout for developments and update you accordingly.

This is far from  an exhaustive list, but these are the top threats we’re looking out for in the coming weeks and months. As ever, we will remain vigilant in the defense of every Americans’ health autonomy and alert you when threats arise and how your voice can be heard so we can work together to defend the health freedom of every American.

Go here to oppose ‘mandatory filing’ for supplements

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Reduce Cancer Risk by 90% Using Evidence-Based Natural Compounds

This protocol was derived by the author’s personal experience, which is often how we move forward in health.  It’s amazing what you can find when you are desperate for yourself or your loved ones.  This is certainly true in Lymeland. The sick and infected are the ones who find answers.

https://justusrhope.substack.com/p/how-to-reduce-cancer-risk-by-90-using?

How to Reduce Cancer Risk by 90% Using Evidence-Based Natural Compounds

The Most Practical ROOT™ Protocol Solution in the Modern Era

Justus R. Hope
Jan 12, 2026
Article Excerpts:

This is the first time a 90% cancer prevention threshold has been achieved using six or fewer readily available, over-the-counter agents—making it both scientifically sound and practically achievable for the majority of people.

The author then traces hidden sources of carcinogens that drive cancer:

  • processed meat at 3 daily servings elevates colorectal cancer risk to levels comparable to heavy smoking
  • sugar-sweetened beverages create a metabolic environment that systematically promotes cancer growth
  • advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) caused by high temperature cooking, food additives and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) operate as independent carcinogens multiplying cancer risk beyond sugar and processed ingredients alone, driving chronic inflammation, promoting tumor cell growth and immune evasion and creating hypoxic conditions
  • fast food
  • synergistic combination of the 4 carcinogens listed above creates catastrophic AGE accumulation – a continuous state of cellular damage and malignant transformation
By eliminating the carcinogen listed and adopting Mediterranean-style eating, overall cancer is reduced 50-66% across multiple cancers – which rivals or exceeds pharmaceutical interventions.

Dosage Protocol: Nine Agents Daily

  1. Vitamin D3: 1000-2000 IU
  2. Curcumin: 500-1000 mg + piperine
  3. EGCG: 400-800 mg
  4. Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): 1000-2000 mg (500-1000 mg for prostate)
  5. Aged Garlic Extract: 2.4 mL daily OR 600-900 mg standardized extract
  6. Sulforaphane: 40-60 mg daily (2 tablespoons fresh broccoli sprouts OR supplement)
  7. Berberine: 900-1500 mg daily (300-500 mg three times daily before meals
  8. Monk Fruit Extract (Mogroside V): 150-250 mg mogrosides daily (as sweetener replacement)
  9. Stevia Extract (Stevioside): 750-1500 mg daily (250-500 mg three times as sweetener replacement)

All can be taken once daily with food. Excellent safety: No significant interactions. Minimal side effects.

To achieve even greater benefits, fast overnight 16 hours 2-3 days per week.
The author gives his routine implementation of the 9 ingredient protocol as well as this cost comparison:
  • Nine-supplement protocol: ~$80-120 per month (preventive intervention achieving 93% cancer risk reduction)​
  • Single chemotherapy cycle: $10,000-30,000 (palliative intervention with modest survival benefit)​

For more:

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Cancer, diet and nutrition, research, Supplements, Treatment

ACTION: Supplements Threatened in New GRAS Bill

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Supplements Threatened in New GRAS Bill

By The ANH TeamOn 0 Comments
Supplements Threatened in New GRAS Bill

Another ill-conceived effort to reform the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) pathway directly threatens access to countless safe supplements and natural products. Action Alert!

THE TOPLINE

  • Rep. Pallone’s GRAS reform bill would eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway and replace it with an FDA pre-approval system—raising costs, reducing competition, and threatening access to many safe, natural supplement ingredients.
  • The bill gives FDA broad new powers to retroactively challenge existing ingredients and to reassess GRAS substances without considering dose, opening the door to EU-style bans on nutrients essential for health.
  • While transparency reforms are needed, abolishing the “self-GRAS” pathway entirely would overwhelm FDA and harm consumers, all while failing to address the real problem: the risk assessment approach used by the agency itself that has allowed many dangerous food additives to remain on the US market.

Over the last few months, we’ve been telling you about federal bills aimed at reforming how food and supplement ingredients come to the market through the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) pathway. These bills have come on the heels of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. identifying the elimination of dangerous food additives as a priority, asking the FDA to explore eliminating the “self-GRAS” pathway, whereby companies certify an ingredient as GRAS and add it to food without notifying the agency.

We’ve argued that many of these proposals, however well-intentioned, are misguided. Yes, we all want safer food. Yes, some unscrupulous companies may take advantage of the self-GRAS pathway to sneak bad ingredients into food. But the truth is that the US GRAS system is the primary mechanism used to get micronutrients—like vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and thousands of botanicals—as well as food additives like dyes, preservatives, thickeners and a whole host of other additives that have technological, rather than nutritional, functions, onto the US market.

This means that if you set up roadblocks and pre-market approvals for the food additives that any health-conscious consumer might have concerns about, you also threaten consumer access to thousands of entirely safe, natural ingredients which come to the market as GRAS—including many of the ingredients in supplements you care about. Changing the entire regime into a de facto pre-market approval system, with the FDA as the gatekeeper, is, as we wrote in our white paper on this topic, like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It will have the effect of reducing consumer access to some of the healthiest ingredients that are both know to be safe and proven to be of benefit to health. It will also impact the smaller, more innovative manufacturers and suppliers the most by creating regulatory barriers that are only accessible to big players. This is exactly what we don’t want because it ends up depriving citizens of choice.

A Push for Reform That Misses the Mark

A bill introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) to reform the GRAS system makes many of the same mistakes as the other bills we’ve covered previously (here and here). Rep. Pallone’s bill proposes eliminating ‘self-GRAS’ entirely, requiring companies to submit detailed notifications to the FDA on new GRAS substances; only after the FDA has issued a written statement to not object to the GRAS notice can that ingredient be used. This is a pre-approval system for GRAS ingredients, plain and simple, which will increase costs, decrease competition, and eliminate many safe, healthy ingredients from the marketplace.

Speaking to the problems with this bill, ANH General Counsel Jonathan Emord said, “Regrettably, Congressman Frank Palone’s bill eliminates all future self-GRAS but grandfathers all prior self-GRAS determinations, leaving in the market the very subset of unsafe food additives in need of removal. The bill is underinclusive and overinclusive, failing to direct government to target demonstrably unsafe food additives for market removal, whether FDA approved or self-GRAS—the approach ANH advocates in our white paper on the subject).”

A Dangerous Expansion of FDA Power

Further, the FDA is handed the authority to require a GRAS notice for any ingredient considered GRAS before the enactment of the bill, giving the agency arbitrary authority to go after ingredients it doesn’t like. You can bet that natural substances and supplements that compete with drugs are on the hit list.

The Precautionary Principle Problem

The bill also requires the FDA to reassess 10 GRAS ingredients every three years, looking at, among other things, whether the ingredient is carcinogenic or can cause reproductive or developmental issues—without specifying that the assessment should be based on the intended use and dose. This pushes us directly into the problems caused by relying on the precautionary principle which dominates assessments by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), thatwe wrote about previously, that have been catastrophic for consumer choice in Europe.

Emord also spoke to this issue: “This bill invites all new food additives to be assessed for carcinogenicity and mutagenicity without regard to dose. That undermines the historic toxicological basis for adulteration law—in effect, the Paracelsian Principle—wherein dose determines toxicity. Without that limitation on the exercise of government power, FDA may well adopt the Precautionary Principle as used in the EU, which gives essentially unbridled discretion to the government to remove food additives on cancer or birth defect grounds without having to prove those effects result from the form or dose levels actually being recommended. That approach would, if applied to existing food additives and other GRAS ingredients, cause many to be banned that are health enhancing, such as those containing selenium. That is because many substances we commonly consume, and are essential for good health, become carcinogenic or mutagenic at high dose levels. It is a foundational truism of toxicology that everything—even water—is toxic at some dose level.

The upshot is, under bills like Rep. Pallone’s, we risk losing access to safe, health-promoting ingredients due to a misapplication of the precautionary principle. This is a principle that gathered momentum decades back as a means of limiting exposure to environmental chemicals like pesticides and air pollutants to which exposure has no benefits, only the potential for risk. So when regulators now apply this same principle to substances like nutrients that have distinct benefits, they risk using the inevitable uncertainty in the science to eliminate exposure (altogether or at least a beneficial levels), so depriving us of benefits.

Transparency Is Needed—But This Isn’t It

None of this is to say that there aren’t problems with the current GRAS system. We’ve laid out these issues in detail in our recent white paper, Reforming GRAS: Food Safety Without Sacrifice. Notably, the drive towards more transparency is crucial. It is not acceptable that companies can self-certify an ingredient as safe and add it to our food without any transparency or accountability. That’s why, among other recommendations in our white paper, we call for the creation of a GRAS Transparency Register, making all GRAS determinations public for review by independent experts, consumer groups, and researchers.

The Real Source of Harmful Additives: FDA Approvals

There’s a common misconception that the self-affirmed GRAS pathway is the main culprit behind the flood of harmful ingredients in our food supply. But many of the additives most often cited by critics—Red 40, Yellow 5, titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, aspartame, sodium nitrite, and BHA—have actually been reviewed and approved by the FDA, either as food or color additives or through the GRAS process itself. These substances were greenlit despite substantial evidence of health risks. The real issue, then, is that most harmful additives were approved through official FDA channels—not industry exploitation of loopholes.

A Better Path Forward

Abolishing the self-GRAS pathway altogether, as proposed by Rep. Pallone’s bill as well as other bills, would wreak havoc on the food and dietary supplement industries and create an enormous workload for the FDA, which the agency would likely be unable to manage given current staffing. Creating another de facto pre-market approval system undermines the original purpose of the GRAS pathway: to streamline the introduction of safe ingredients, including many natural ingredients, into food.

We need lawmakers to hear from YOU, their constituents, that real reform means not throwing the nutrient baby out with the GRAS bathwater.

Action Alert!

http://www.votervoice.net/Shares/BcNxRAhFBC6ffAeXRxg7FAA  Go here to send a pre-written letter to your reps.

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Activism, diet and nutrition, Herbs, Supplements

Tenenbaum Cancer Protocol

I continue to marvel at the many silver linings of the disastrous COVID era. One such silver lining is the plethora of information not only about successful cancer treatments but the truth about the very nature of it. Since a recent paper shows that chemotherapy the current poison treatment of choice that oncologists get a direct cut from, has a 97.9% failure rate in the U.S. over five years, these treatments are just in time as the American Cancer Society Projects diagnoses to exceed 2 MILLION in 2025.

Due to the fact ‘the powers that be’ have proven to be unbelievably corrupt hooligans, people have begun to realize that they in fact have a brain they can use for themselves!  

This awakening has brought many to the conclusion they can research, learn, and experiment just as well as those in a fraudulent, indoctrinated medical machine for profit which spews out mostly corrupt people with a few letters after his or her name.  (There are always rare exceptions and thank God for them!)

The world has already been regaled with the success of the Joe Tippen’s Protocol, Dr. Marik’s success, Dr. Makis’ success, Mel Gibson’s testimony of 3 friends healed of stage four cancer, a major review paper showing high dose IV vitamin C (75-100g, 2-3X week for 6-8 cycles) as a promising anti-cancer agent, and entire websites dedicated to high level guidance based on research for the layman who is interested in cancer treatments.  (COVID mania also exposed the ‘good guy’ doctors who were and continue to be tenaciously persecuted for daring to think for themselves)

Now we have the astounding success of Guy Tenenbaum, a 71 year old with stage 4 prostate cancer who was given a death sentence by all the doctors he consulted with, and who realized he had to rescue himself.  He studied the Metabolic Theory of Cancer, the work of Dr. Otto Warburg and Dr. Wilhelm Brunings [06:41], and discovered the key, autophagy, related to the work of Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi [06:54]. Many studies built on Ohsumi’s foundational work and applied it to cancer. Autophagy, the lysosomal clean-up of cellular debris, is controlled by the mTOR pathway and is turned on by fasting.  Fasting can also enhance chemotherapy and radiation effectiveness and dramatically lessen its toxicity.  Tenenbaum wrote “My Battle Against Cancer – Survivor Protocol,” “Beat Cancer to Cure From Cancer,” and co-authored “Can We Heal From Cancer? Guy and Fred Did it…..and Here’s How.”

It appears the medical machine refuses to apply previously done work to current diseases because there isn’t any money or power in it. 
You think NIAID will give grants for that?  Think again.

Guy Tenenbaum’s Cancer Protocol

  • Fast for 42 days, consuming nothing but water and occasional coffee or tea
  • Take 1,000mg of aged garlic (scientists believe it’s responsible for 30% of his recovery). Go here for research on how aged garlic:
    • reduced stomach cancer by 52% due to reducing IGF-1, activating autophagy, suppressing a master switch controlling inflammation & cancer stem cell survival, and enhancing Natural Killer Cells by up to 300%.
    • even 17 years after stopping it, subjects still had a 34% lower cancer mortality
    • has an anti-aging effect, slows heart disease progression, improves brain health, and beats EGCG and curcumin due to its bioavailability, clinical results, and track record.
    • causes blood levels peak within hours but clinical benefits usually appear:
      • 2-4 weeks – improved blood pressure and inflammation markers
      • 3 months – max cardiovascular benefits
      • 6-12 months – cancer prevention and longevity benefits

Tenenbaum continues to take aged garlic now with meals for better absorption. After his drastic self- experiment his PSA dropped from 58 to 0.1 and scans showed his bone metastases were healing.  Six years later, he remains cancer-free.  

It’s important to note that aged garlic is quite different from regular garlic or even odorless garlic due to the proprietary aging process which converts harsh compounds into gentle, beneficial ones, which have no odor and cause no irritation.  It would require 10-20 cloves of raw garlic a day to achieve 1,000mg.  I must add as a personal side note that I actually took 16 cloves of crushed garlic daily, broken down into 4 doses when I first got Lyme/MSIDS, based on the advice of a Master Herbalist.  I did it for 2 weeks and it nearly killed me.  First, I smelled like I came straight out of Shanghai (the kids banned me from the car), and second my stomach revolted toward the end.  It was just too harsh.  I will state it made me herx initially, so it gave some benefit.

Due to Tenenbaum’s success, there are now two clinical trials now in the works testing prolonged fasting and fasting-mimicking diets in prostate cancer patients.

The following tables are helpful comparing autophagy effectiveness:

Source

This seminal work has shown there there appears to be an autophagy threshold for cancer suppression, growth factor starvation, insulin suppression, Warburg effect reversal, and sustained immune activation, which the 42 day fast meets but the 16 hour intermittent fast doesn’t.

This analysis demonstrates that dose-response matters dramatically in fasting-induced autophagy:

  • Mild fasting (16h): 20-30% tumor growth slowing ✓ (good)

  • Extended fasting (5-7d cycles): 10-25% remission rates ✓ (better)

  • Prolonged fasting (42d continuous): 100% remission rate ✓ (transformational)

Milder Ways to Induce Autophagy for the average Joe

Let’s say you don’t have cancer but you want to incorporate helpful aspects of Tennenbaum’s protocol in a more sustainable manner for prevention or other issues? 

Regarding clearing of spike proteins from those who got the COVID shots, as well as curing Dr. Marik’s Type II Diabetes:

“Autophagy can be upregulated by fasting and calorie restriction [2], especially if protein is reduced [3]. Autophagy in many instances does not require the complete cessation of food intake (protocols are available at https://COVID19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/, accessed on 15 April 2023). Sharply decreasing protein intake can upregulate autophagy pathways [4], and this can be accomplished while still eating, which makes this more approachable as a protocol. Regular fasting was also associated with better outcomes from acute COVID-19 [5].  Source

For Average Risk Individuals

Daily: 16:8 Time-Restricted Eating

  • Fast 16 hours (e.g., 8pm – 12pm)

  • Eat 8 hours (12pm – 8pm)

Quarterly: 4-5 Day Fasting-Mimicking Diet

  • Every 3 months (4x per year)

  • 1,100 cal day 1; 500 cal/day days 2-5

Expected Results:

  • ✅ Cancer risk reduction: 40-60%

  • ✅ Sustainability: Excellent (85-95%)

  • ✅ Evidence level: Strong (multiple human RCTs)

For High-Risk Individuals (Family History, Genetic Risk)

Daily: 18:6 Time-Restricted Eating

  • Fast 18 hours (6pm – 12pm)

  • Eat 6 hours (12pm – 6pm)

Monthly: 48-72 Hour Water Fast

  • Once per month

  • Water, tea, coffee only

Quarterly: 4-5 Day FMD

  • Every 2-3 months

Expected Results:

    • ✅ Cancer risk reduction: 50-70%

    • ✅ Sustainability: Good-Excellent (70-85%)

    • ✅ Evidence level: Very Strong

Optimal Combined Protocol (50-70% Prevention)

DAILY FOUNDATION:

  • ✅ 16:8 Time-Restricted Eating (minimum)

  • ✅ 18:6 TRE for high-risk individuals

  • ✅ Eating window: 12pm – 6pm or 10am – 6pm

  • ✅ Black coffee, tea, water allowed during fast

QUARTERLY INTENSIVE:

  • ✅ Fasting-Mimicking Diet 4 times per year

  • ✅ Day 1: 1,100 calories (plant-based)

  • ✅ Days 2-5: 500 calories/day

  • ✅ ProLon kit or DIY version

  • ✅ Schedule: Jan, April, July, October

OPTIONAL MONTHLY BOOST (High Risk):

  • ✅ 48-72 hour water fast once per month

  • ✅ Or extend one FMD to 7 days

SYNERGISTIC ADDITIONS:

  • ✅ Aged Garlic Extract 2.4g/day

  • ✅ Green tea 3+ cups/day (especially lung cancer prevention)

  • ✅ Curcumin 500mg BID with piperine

  • ✅ Whole food, plant-based diet during eating windows

Go here for source and all research studies.

Repurposed Drugs for Cancer

By Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCM, FCCP and Justus R. Hope, MD

https://imahealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/approach-to-repurposed-drugs-for-cancer.pdf

We can be extremely thankful that COVID produced some amazingly unexpected benefits in how cancer and many other disease processes is being treated.

I’ll bet the medical machine didn’t predict their tyranny would promote invention!

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ACTION: Stop Hemp Ban!

https://anh-usa.org/stop-the-hemp-ban-now/

Stop the Hemp Ban Now!

By The ANH Team 
Stop the Hemp Ban Now!

A dangerous provision has been included in a Congressional spending bill that could spell the end of your access to full-spectrum hemp products. Action Alert!

Listen to the audio version of this article:

THE TOPLINE

  • A provision in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee’s FY 2026 spending bill would ban all ingestible hemp products containing “quantifiable amounts” of THC or THC-like cannabinoids—effectively outlawing many CBD and full-spectrum hemp oils that contain small, non-psychoactive amounts of THC.
  • While the measure is framed as targeting unregulated, intoxicating products like delta-8, it goes far beyond that by threatening the entire hemp industry and cutting off consumer access to safe, beneficial full-spectrum hemp products.
  • The provision still faces hurdles, including reconciliation with the Senate version of the bill and ongoing political uncertainty, but urgent grassroots opposition is needed to prevent it from becoming law.

If you rely on hemp, CBD, or full-spectrum hemp oil to support your health, listen up!

A dangerous provision buried in a House spending bill threatens to ban most of the hemp products currently available on the market. Just as research continues to confirm the remarkable healing potential of hemp and CBD—showing their impact on the body’s endocannabinoid system, which influences everything from mood to immunity—some in Congress are moving to strip away our access. We must raise strong grassroots opposition to stop this misguided policy.

The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee’s spending bill for FY 2026 contains a deeply troubling provision that effectively bans the production and sale of all hemp-derived products that contain “quantifiable amounts” of THC (one of the psychoactive components of hemp that provides the “high”) or cannabinoids with similar, THC-like effects. What “quantifiable amounts” means specifically is to be determined later by regulators.

Put in plain terms, this would ban all ingestible hemp products with any level of THC in them. This means that many CBD oil and full-spectrum hemp oil products would suddenly become illegal.

The goal of the amendment is to close a loophole created by the previous Farm Bill that has allowed unregulated, intoxicating hemp products on the market. Recall that the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp at the federal level, defining it as a cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent THC. In the six years since that bill became law, some companies found a way to stay within the guardrails put in place by the new law but still be able to chemically synthesize psychoactive or intoxicating products from legal hemp plants. These products include members of the THC family like delta-8 and delta-10. Delta-8 occurs naturally in the hemp plant at miniscule levels, but higher levels of delta-8 THC are produced artificially in the laboratory by chemically converting CBD through a process called isomerization.

While the merits of cracking down on delta-8 and other products can be debated, what’s crystal clear is that this amendment goes far beyond banning delta-8 and similar products and takes a huge swipe at the hemp industry as a whole without any justification.

Some of the best and healthiest products are full-spectrum hemp oils that contain all of the nearly 500 known compounds known to be present in hemp, including cannabinoids (>60), terpenes (>140), and fatty acids that occur naturally in the plant. Among this morass of compounds are tiny, non-psychoactive amounts of THC. The real benefits of hemp come from the “entourage effect” of all these different chemicals acting together. For example, a 2015 study found that highly purified CBD was somewhat effective in treating inflammation and anxiety in mice, but was substantially more effective when the CBD was present in a full spectrum extract because it benefits from the synergy from the full entourage of typically associated compounds.

Banning, in one fell swoop, all hemp products with “quantifiable amounts” of THC is the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bath water and will take vital products out of our medicine cabinets.

Remember, too, that is not the only threat to CBD access. Because CBD has been approved as a drug, the FDA maintains that it cannot be a supplement, though the agency appears only to be going after CBD companies making illegal disease claims. The agency has said that it believes a new regulatory pathway is needed to deal with CBD. Whatever that pathway is, you can bet the agency will do its best to protect drug industry profits by making it next to impossible to have affordable CBD supplements.

There are still a number of hurdles before this can ever become law. Similar language was added to the Senate version of this bill, but Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was able to remove it. House and Senate versions of the bill would need to be further negotiated and reconciled before being sent to the President for approval. The possibility of a government shutdown in the coming weeks further complicates matters.

There is no time to lose. We must oppose this terrible policy and kill it before the bill moves any further.

Action Alert!

(Go to top link for sign petition)

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**Comment**

CBD oil has been a game changer for me and my husband.  It helps us sleep much more soundly.

It has come under attack before, with the FDA misleading the public on its safety.  CBD is one of the most well researched non-psychoactive cannabinoids and it has an incredible array of health benefits, with evidence showing that has profound anti-inflammatory and immune modulating effects and can help with pain, anxiety, depression, certain cancers, and even heart health.

Funny how the ‘the powers that be’ always seem mostly concerned with safe, inexpensive, effective products, but are completely blind, deaf, and dumb to unsafe, expensive, and ineffective ‘vaccines’ and drugs.

I’m sure the goal is to ban this so we are all forced to use something Big Pharma greatly profits from.

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