As fierce debate over President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” continues to consume Capitol Hill, an overlooked spending provision recently approved by the budgeteers of the U.S. House deserves bipartisan praise for helping combat the nation’s gas station heroin epidemic.

In late June, the House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2026 spending proposal put forward by the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies — which includes a long-sought stipulation to close the so-called “hemp loophole.”

The subcommittee measure aims to correct a legal gray area created by the 2018 Farm Bill and slow the spread of Gas Station Heroin in American communities.?

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