PETITION TO REMOVE CANNABIS SEEDS AND GENETICS FROM THE NOVEMBER 2026 FEDERAL HEMP RESTRICTIONS

We, the undersigned, call on Congress and federal regulators to immediately remove cannabis seeds and cannabis genetics from the federal hemp restrictions scheduled to take effect on November 12, 2026. The new federal framework changes hemp to a 0.3% total THC standard, expressly reaches “the seeds thereof,” and also imposes a separate 0.4 milligram per container limit on final hemp-derived consumer products. We recognize that lawmakers are trying to close loopholes left behind by the 2018 Farm Bill, including concerns surrounding THCA, intoxicating hemp-derived products, synthetic cannabinoids, and loosely regulated consumer goods. Those issues can be addressed, but seeds have no place in this bill.

This petition is focused on that issue alone. We understand the argument for regulating intoxicating products such as vapes, gummies, beverages, and synthetic or chemically altered cannabinoids. We understand why many people believe the federal government should tighten controls in those categories. But cannabis seeds are not intoxicating products. They are not finished consumer goods. They are not the loophole. They are genetic material, the starting point for breeding, cultivation, agriculture, research, medical access, and lawful home growing. Including seeds in a framework aimed at intoxicating products is not a precise fix. It is a broad and sloppy overreach.

We, the people, are not willing to accept another uninformed cannabis bill like the one that created the 2018 loophole in the first place. Congress had years to properly revisit the 2018 Farm Bill, yet the law was repeatedly extended rather than comprehensively reworked. After all of that delay, the public should not be handed another rushed and poorly informed cannabis policy. If lawmakers truly wanted to fix the real problem, they would have done the homework, consulted the right professionals, and drafted a bill that directly targets intoxicating products without sweeping seeds and genetics into the same framework.

That is why this bill appears so careless. If lawmakers want to close the THCA loophole, they should close the THCA loophole. If they want to regulate intoxicating hemp-derived products, they should regulate those products. If they want to address synthetic cannabinoids and unregulated consumer goods, they should draft those provisions clearly and directly. But seeds should not be part of that effort. Seeds are not the problem, and they should not be used as collateral damage in another sloppy federal attempt to clean up mistakes from the past.

This overreach threatens the entire world of cannabis genetics. It does not only affect THC seeds. It threatens CBD genetics, CBG genetics, and other cannabis seeds and breeding lines that have been developed over many years by breeders, growers, farmers, and small businesses. These genetics are the product of years of dedication, investment, preservation, and refinement by the people, not by the government. We reject any attempt to sweep them into prohibition or federal control under a framework that was clearly not drafted with enough scientific understanding or industry knowledge.

It is also important to say plainly that this kind of language could make even some of the most well-known and widely grown CBD genetics vulnerable,    despite the fact that these plants are cultivated for non-intoxicating purposes and have long been part of the lawful hemp and cannabis conversation. That alone shows why experienced people from the industry must be involved before laws like this are pushed forward. Lawmakers should not be assigning thresholds and restrictions that affect seeds and genetics without first hearing from breeders, cultivators, agricultural experts, medical professionals, and others who actually understand the cannabis plant.

Cannabis is already legal in many states for medical and adult use, and home growing is permitted in a meaningful number of jurisdictions. Seed access therefore matters to patients, home growers, breeders, medical users, farmers, and lawful businesses. Restricting seeds and genetics does not simply regulate products sitting on a shelf. It strikes at the foundation of lawful cultivation itself. To many of us, this is not just bad policy. It looks like federal overreach into an area where the people already have recognized rights and legitimate interests.

We also will not ignore the deeper concern this creates. If this is an attempt to move toward greater government control over cannabis genetics, seed access, and breeding rights, then we, the people, reject that entirely. The public has spent years developing, preserving, and improving these genetics. They belong to the breeders, growers, farmers, and lawful communities who built them, not to a federal system that now wants to regulate them through careless drafting and incomplete research. We will not stand by while the government uses a badly written bill to reach into genetics that citizens and businesses have worked for years to create.

We therefore demand a science-based redraft. Any future legislation affecting seeds and cannabis genetics must include meaningful third-party evaluation by qualified experts, including breeders, cultivators, agricultural scientists, medical professionals, and lawful industry stakeholders. If lawmakers believe seeds belong in this framework, then they owe the public a clear explanation, real evidence, and a transparent scientific basis for that position. If they cannot provide that, then seeds and genetics must be removed from this bill entirely.

We are not asking lawmakers to leave every loophole open. We are asking them to stop repeating the same mistake: writing cannabis law first and learning the facts later. The people deserve better than another round of careless policymaking. The people deserve a bill that is narrow, informed, science-based, and properly targeted to the actual issue. It is entirely possible to regulate intoxicating hemp-derived consumer products without attacking seeds, breeding, genetics, and lawful cultivation. That is the redraft we demand.

We therefore call for the following:

1. Remove cannabis seeds and cannabis genetics from the November 2026 federal hemp restrictions.

2. Delay any seed-related enforcement until a full public and scientific review has been completed.

3. Require third-party expert consultation before any future seed or genetics policy is drafted.

4. Provide a clear public explanation of why seeds were included and what research supports that decision.

5. Redraft the law so it targets intoxicating products and synthetic loopholes without attacking seeds, genetics, breeding, or lawful cultivation.

Seeds are not the loophole. Seeds are not the intoxicating product. Seeds are not the problem. The problem is another round of sloppy and uninformed policymaking that reaches too far, understands too little, and threatens to harm lawful growers, breeders, patients, and citizens in the process.

If you agree, please sign and share this petition with growers, breeders, patients, medical users, home growers, farmers, business owners, and every citizen who believes that public policy should be based on facts, science, and common sense. Share it by email, text, and social media. Share it with your friends, family, fellow growers, and business associates. The power of the people only works when the people speak together.

Remove seeds and genetics from this bill.

Demand a science-based redraft.

We, the people, will not accept another sloppy cannabis law.

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