Across Virginia, small hemp businesses are facing unprecedented enforcement actions for selling federally legal products. These actions are not about consumer safety — they’re part of a coordinated effort to consolidate market control under large pharmaceutical and tobacco corporations.

Without immediate, strategic intervention, Virginia’s independent hemp sector could be dismantled — costing jobs, stifling innovation, and eliminating a vital source of community-based entrepreneurship.

Our Campaign Strategy

We are leading a coordinated advocacy and communications campaign to defend small hemp businesses and establish a fair, sustainable framework for the future of this industry. Our work focuses on four key priorities:

Policy Engagement: Collaborating with state legislators, executive officials, and regulatory stakeholders to advocate for halting enforcement and fighting for balanced regulation.

Public Awareness: Launching targeted media efforts to educate the public, correct misinformation, and highlight the economic and social value of Virginia’s hemp businesses.

Industry Rebranding: Positioning legitimate hemp operators as responsible, compliant, and community-focused to distinguish them from bad actors.

Legal Preparedness: As a last resort, pursuing legal avenues to pause or challenge enforcement actions that threaten small businesses and consumer access.

Together, these efforts create a unified and professional front to ensure the hemp industry’s survival and integrity in Virginia.

Why This Work Matters

The hemp industry represents one of the most dynamic sectors in Virginia’s small business economy. It has created jobs, driven innovation, and provided consumers with federally legal wellness alternatives. Allowing corporate monopolies to dominate this space would not only devastate small business owners — it would undermine fair competition and consumer choice.

This campaign ensures that hemp remains an industry where entrepreneurs, not conglomerates, define its future.

How You Can Help

Your contribution directly supports:

With your support, we can secure a level playing field, protect small business interests, and preserve the economic and community benefits that the hemp industry provides.

Invest in fairness. Protect Virginia’s hemp industry. Support the fight to keep hemp in the hands of small business owners.