WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval Wednesday to a spending bill that will end the record-long federal government shutdown — and shutter most of the 300 dispensary-type shops that have sold hemp-derived THC products in Nebraska for years.

A last-minute provision that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky worked to include in the bill will outlaw the “unregulated sale of intoxicating hemp-based or hemp-derived products, including Delta-8,” which have been legal in Nebraska since 2019. The provision, which will take effect late next year, will close a loophole that Congress created in 2018 when lawmakers legalized hemp-derived products that contain no more than 0.3% of Delta-9 THC — placing no limits on the hundreds of other cannabinoids present in hemp, including Delta-8.

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