Indiana businesses count down to federal cannabis ban | Exclusive
“This is Prohibition 2.0, 100 years later," one Lafayette business owner says. Come December, a legal high will be hard to find in Indiana. On the 11th of that month, a provision tucked into the late-2025 funding bill that reopened the federal government will trigger, closing most of the legal market for cannabis products in the state. Previously, the 2018 federal farm bill had separated hemp from the legal category of marijuana. After drying a cannabis plant, if the weight is made of less than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), it’s called “hemp.” Any more, and it’s classified as illegal marijuana. The same rubric applies to cannabis products in Indiana like gummies and drinks; if by weight it contains less than 0.3% THC, it’s legal. But in November 2025, President Donald Trump signed a stopgap federal funding bill that included a new, tighter definition of hemp. Under this impending federal law, the amount of THC in a “container,” which the Food and Drug Administration has yet to define , will be limited to 0.4 milligrams. (If taking THC for the first time, one might start to feel an effect about 2.5 milligrams .) Marguerite Bolt, Purdue University’s hemp extension specialist, says the
