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The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...