As we told you Friday, U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell withdrew language from a Senate Agriculture appropriations bill that he says would have stopped some food makers from exploiting a loophole in the 2018 farm bill, allowing them to create intoxicating products with federally legal levels of THC.

Senator McConnell says he's withdrawing his language so the overall bill can move forward.

McConnell says there are companies taking legal amounts of THC from hemp and using it to make snack products that appear very similar to better known foods, and that children often can't tell the difference.

He says the number of cannabis related poisonings among young people is up, and he says it would have been possible to close the loophole without hurting farmers efforts to grow hemp.

As long as I've been a senator from Kentucky, I've supported our farmers.

I'm proud to have served on the Agriculture Committee my entire career in the Senate because of its importance.

We've been talking from the tobacco buyer program to tax relief for sale of farmland.

I've made sure our farmers have the tools they need to be successful in volatile markets.

My language would not have changed.

This language would have remained in the appropriations package had one senator not derailed the process of.

It's not clear which senator that McConnell was referring to when he said one senator derailed the process.

The state could take action on this.

State Representative Matthew Koch, a Republican from Paris, is co-chair of the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing Occupations and Admin Regulations.

He says lawmakers may consider creating a new division within the department of Alcohol Beverage Control, or ABC.

And he says the ABC already regulates cannabis infused drinks.

Now he thinks there is a need to create a division to regulate all nonalcoholic, intoxicating substances.