Let me be clear: I will not back down. I will not waver. I will not stop until this life-threatening hemp loophole is closed permanently. We must strip this amendment from the CR & regulate these harmful substances for what they are—not what the industry wants to call them.

You’re serious about protecting the children. We get it.

If anyone is interested in how much @SenTedBuddNC costs, the reciepts are below. He's not protecting families, he's protecting his corporate donors.

This is what marketing to children actually looks like.

, stop using children to justify your bullshit bill. Your constituency wants the save America act passed, immediately, not this very detrimental pet project of yours. Hemp products have helped millions of Americans like myself. Because of hemp products I don't need to take opioids anymore to be able to sleep and live without pain.

Lobbyist money talking, that's all this is.

You’re going to lose on this one, Ted. Regulate with age requirements if need be, but you’ll go down in a massive flaming ball if you attempt to pull legitimate use out of circulation. Read. The. Room. You’re about to skewer your independent vote.

Unregulated hemp-derived products are being sold on the shelves of nearly every corner store in America. These intoxicating substances are hiding in plain sight—and they are putting our kids at risk.

Parents should never have to fear that sending their child into a convenience store for a snack or a treat could mean that child walks out with a product that can get them high. That is not too much to ask. It is common sense.

In North Carolina, cannabis consumption-coded ER visits among minors increased by 969% between 2017 and 2025. These numbers are not just statistics. They represent children ending up in emergency rooms because the intoxicating hemp industry wants to make a cheap dollar.

This is a public health crisis that deserves this Senate’s immediate attention. Our children should never be the testing ground for an industry willing to exploit a loophole in federal law for profit.

I have a duty to the millions of parents in North Carolina who sent me to Washington to be their voice &, above all, to protect their children. We will have this fight before the end of this Congress, & I can assure you I'm not going to stop fighting to protect America’s kids.

About the children...riiiiiiggghhhttttttt.

It's incredibly disingenuous to pretend that children can just walk into a convenience store and accidentally buy hemp products.

Small potatoes. How about focusing on skipping recess and get votes for the SAVE Act instead of what your lobbyist tell you to say. Weed theatrics is a losing issue in a tight election year.

If you were also talking about banning alcohol and tobacco I could respect but disagree with you. This rant on hemp means you’re either a hypocrite, ignorant or bought off. Which is it?

Go take an edible and think about how ridiculous you are. NOBODY dies from hemp but you sell actual death machines.

The only threat hemp has on anything is BIG PHARMA and alcohol you absolute fool.

They’re out here saying THC is “next to kids and candy.” We ID every single customer 21+. We don’t sell around children. Period. Alcohol is legal, sold everywhere, and kills around 178,000 Americans every year. Science has ranked it more harmful than cannabis for years. Meanwhile the real killers — fentanyl and opioids — are run by the cartels. Every ban just hands them more black-market money and makes Mexico’s cartels stronger. Prohibition doesn’t stop people from using. It just makes the problem bigger and more dangerous later. We’ll keep smoking. #THC #Cannabis

The board you’re showing is classic percentage inflation without the actual numbers. A 461% increase sounds terrifying until you see the base. In North Carolina, the “cannabis consumption” rate among minors went from 2.9 to 31 per 100,000. With roughly 2.36 million kids under 18, that’s still only about 730 visits statewide in 2025—or 0.031% of all children in NC in a given year. Nationwide, the pediatric (0-11) study behind that 461% figure estimates around 8,400 cases total over six years. And deaths from these exposures? Effectively zero in the data you provided. How is that life threatening. Yes, absolutely keep products out of kids’ hands and stop marketing that looks like candy. But presenting only the percentages while hiding how rare these events still are is not transparency—it’s alarmism. Now 91% of Republicans would like The SAVE America Act passed. Please concentrate on that.

Next you'll be telling us that the federal government needs to regulate our speech in public and create a agency to censor us online so you can protect the kids.

Senator, this is called a ban, not a regulation. Please stick to the facts. Here, I'll fix it for you: 'I want to ban these products, put thousands of my fellow North Carolinians out of jobs, and force local farmers to lose their farms.

There are millions of us in our 50s, 60s, 70s who use CBD and THC responsibly. It is a better option than alcohol, and prescription drugs. With no bad side effects or the addiction problem of the other two. These products have helped me and many others. A ban is wrong headed.

Not to be "that guy" but what in the world is an amendment about hemp doing in a CR??? This is the Washington craziness that most of us normies simply can't wrap our heads around. Slide something into a CR because it wouldn't make it as a standalone bill. Congress continues to do dumb things. The CR should simply keep the government operating.

Senator Budd, where's your post about the dangers of nicotine? Should we ask your Tobacco donor, Altria?

"life threatening hemp loophole" lolllllllll you make it clear every day that you know absolutely NOTHING about hemp/THC

You were saying what? Trust me Budd as a Raleigh native your ENTIRE state is not falling for this bullshit and we are sick of bogus lies like this and absolutely fed up with worthless politicians using fear mongering and lies to sway opinions. Listen to your GOVERNOR who is asking for a regulated market you freaking loser.

Hemp has no recorded annual death toll. Tobacco kills 435,000 Americans annually, including 14,220 North Carolinians. Jr Sen Budd has accepted at least $37,601 from Big Tobacco. That's roughly about $2.64 per dead North Carolinian in campaign cash for Budd. Appalling.

@RobinKWiggins Not having the Save Act passed is putting your children at much greater risk! With all due respect , that is where your focus needs to be. Your constituents, myself included, want that.

You are a lying coward. Bought and paid for by the alcohol lobby and harming people. As a Lupus patient with a genetic heart issue, I can't take anything for the Lupus pain other than Tylenol - useless. CBD allows the ability for quality of life without risk. Banning THC will render me w/o quality of life and in a wheelchair.

You've got bigger fish to fry that this brother. How about get on that and stop grandstanding.

This isn’t about safety, it’s you and your donors killing American jobs, businesses, hurting farmers & consumers. Not a single death from cannabis yet more people have died from alcohol since writing this. Save your bullshit lies & die on this hill.

Then regulate and stop banning. Seems like a conmen sense thing to do. On another note how many children does alcohol and cigarettes harm? Where is the outrage?

It’s time to push back against this prohibition era propaganda. I’m a regular user of legal hemp products in this state and I’ve never seen these products. They aren’t on the candy isle at 7-11 or Food Lion. At best they are in 18 or 21+ smoke shops. The way you stop children (read teenagers) from purchasing and abusing these products is to crack down on fake IDs.

life threatening? you're an idiot.

We have Democrat Islamic jihadists getting elected and you’re worried about some kid wondering into a hemp store? These items aren’t inside a 7/11 Ted. How bout you just put a 21 or older purchase restriction on it and call it a day… fucking clown

Nothing that’s legal in 40 states should be Federally illegal. Too many contradictory laws. Do your job and legalize/regulate it at the Federal level.

"Life threatening". My father with stage 3 lung cancer lives with me in SC where Marijuana is schedule 1. THC gummies help him not be nauseous and relax from his chemo. But sure, take that from him because you need the political capital

@HenneyMatt Not even touching on the mail order ads we’re seeing plastered all over social media!