FLORENCE, Ky. — Christain Perry-Watt owns Kentucky Botanical Company in Florence and Bellevue. After the government funding bill was signed by President Donald Trump, she told me she's worried her stores won't be around much longer.

"So the future of Kentucky Botanical is that we have one year left," Perry-Watt said.

Hemp restrictions are included within the legislation that passed Wednesday.

"I'm definitely blindsided. It feels like every bit of work that we've done for the last seven years to create a business that had a really good reputation, that could have been used for regulations, it feels like it was all for nothing," Perry-Watt said.

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She walked me through her store and said that the new regulations w

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