Minnesota businesses are sounding the alarm over a provision in the federal government’s shutdown-ending spending package that would ban nearly all hemp-derived THC products.

The U.S. House is scheduled to vote Wednesday night on the bill to end the longest-running government shutdown, following a failed, last-ditch effort to remove the provision ahead of the bill's passage Monday in the Senate.

Minnesota Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar voted against the bill and in favor of removing the provision.

The provision seeks to close a so-called loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp nationwide and enabled manufacturers to create intoxicating products with legal amounts of THC from hemp.

The proposal – championed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), author of the Farm Bill – “

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