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What's up with the new US seed law this November 2026? (Update: Now December 2026)

I'm going back 55 years or so, to provide a perspective. Back then, most folks used bag seeds, as a lid of brick weed was full of them. Lost track for 40 years while working and pot stayed illegal. When my state went legal, Nov 2020, I bought them on line from Spain. One shippment was confiscated early on for not having a phytosanitary certficate.
 
Allotrope1000 said:
I'm going back 55 years or so, to provide a perspective. Back then, most folks used bag seeds, as a lid of brick weed was full of them. Lost track for 40 years while working and pot stayed illegal. When my state went legal, Nov 2020, I bought them on line from Spain. One shippment was confiscated early on for not having a phytosanitary certficate.
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I have been growing for 50+ yrs and what Allotrope said is true. Nothing stopped me from being able to grow during that time, but I had a farm on 135 acres, and it was easy to have a gorilla grow here and there. I sure miss that a lot!
 
I'm really hoping they make an exception for seeds. From what I understand, if they get the 1% THC limit on seeds as hoped, selling and buying seeds online is going to get a lot easier.

I bet we'll learn today based on how the election goes whether they will fight for seeds or let them become illegal.
 
growingisfun said:
I've heard a lot of mixed information about the new seed law that was passed last year by the US government and supposedly goes into effect in November (update: now December 11, 2026) this year. I've heard some people say the law is going to make selling or buying cannabis seeds in the US illegal again. From what I understand, selling seeds was first legalized in 2019 due to some kind of hemp seed loophole, and that loophole is getting closed.

I've heard some breeders say they're just going to move operations overseas, others say they're switching to selling clones by mail (?!?) and still others say they'll just keep selling seeds until the government stops them. Then I've heard some growers say that it's unlikely the law will actually "go through" whatever that means. But who could stop it?

My big questions are: What is going to happen to buying seeds in the US in November? Does it matter if you live in a legal state? Should we just start stocking up now? I have some extra seeds I got as a bonus, but I don't really want to grow those particular strains. Maybe it's better to wait until it gets a bit closer to see what happens, and probably all the seeds will go on sale?

Basically, what's your seed plan?

(Pictured: I found a bonus seed in one of my nugs. How often does that happen, and what happens if I grow it?)

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You know I don't see any fire sales on seeds from these companies so I have a feeling they are going to keep selling under a novelty clause. Because their web sites show no signs of stock liquidation if that makes sense. However I did reach out to 707 seed bank and stocked up triangle kush and will be working with those genetics on the east coast.
 
I wonder how we can learn what the cannabis seed companies are doing and what they really know. I like that NASC actually informs the community in their blog. I wonder if there are other sources of insider seed vendor information.
 
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