My Letter to Donald Trump
The President Who Legalized Hemp Now Faces the Defining Decision of His Presidency as Hawaii’s Federal Hemp Lawsuit Warns of a National Hemp Industry Collapse
Below is my letter to Donald Trump regarding section 781, a ban on hemp sandwiched into the necessary and crucial bill signed to reopen the government. Donald Trump signed the hemp bill of 2018 its only right he saves it!
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Mr. President,
Thank you for the job you are doing for this country! You are fighting for working families, for American farmers, and for small business owners who have been forgotten by Washington for decades. The country owes you more than it knows. The world, in fact, does too!
My name is Lance Saher Alyas. I am a Chaldean American, and I own Oahu Dispensary and Provisions LLC in Hawaii, a hemp business operating in full compliance with the federal delta-9 THC standard you established when you signed the 2018 Farm Bill. That signature created the modern American hemp industry from zero. Hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions in economic activity, and millions of families across every state depending on it.
I am writing because that very industry and those it supports are under coordinated attack, and the next decision in front of you is bound to be one of the most consequential of not just your second term, but your entire presidency.
The State of Hawaii adopted rules that conflict directly with the federal standard you signed into law. That conflict forced me into federal court to defend my right to operate under your Farm Bill, in active litigation, Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035 (D. Haw.). Legal experts following the case are confident I’ll prevail. Yet even a win there will be hollow once Section 781 hits. The same political machine that opposes you on everything else is betting you will not step in to protect your own policy.
That’s because Section 781 of the Continuing Appropriations Act takes effect November 12, 2026, less than six months from now. When it does, the conflict that destroyed countless businesses in Hawaii will be replicated against every hemp business in America. Every farmer, every processor, every retailer, every trucker, every packager, every lab technician, every small business owner in every state whose paycheck comes from this industry will be facing what I am facing now. This $30 billion industry and virtually all others connected to it will not survive without your direct intervention.
Millions of families are watching. Millions of livelihoods depend on it. Millions of Americans built their lives on a federal standard you created, and they are praying the man who signed it into law will defend it now.
Mr. President, you literally built this industry. It’s fitting, then, that only you can defend it, and you have the authority as President to do so.
Thank you again for everything you have done and everything you are still doing for this country. I am one small business owner among millions asking you, the man who legalized hemp, to defend what you built.
Don’t let your signature die on your watch.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Lance Saher Alyas
Owner, Oahu Dispensary and Provisions LLC
Plaintiff, Alyas v. Lopez, No. 1:26-cv-00035 (D. Haw.)