One legislator wanted to ban THC hemp. Another wanted to keep it. Here’s how it turned out.

 One legislator wanted to ban THC hemp. Another wanted to keep it. Here’s how it turned out.

The situation looked dire for the booming new industry that gets people high, legally, from hemp.

But five months later, John Williams, the top beer industry lobbyist in Louisiana, sent legislators a mass email with a subject line that caught their attention: Recreational THC is now legal in Loui…