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In Emergency Rule, California Bans All THCs In Hemp Products: Industry Asks, Where’s The Fire?

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

California authorities say predominance of retailers licensed to sell hemp are compliant with ban published effective on 3 October through emergency regulation. But hemp industry’s contesting the regulation in state court, arguing state authorities inappropriately used emergency action to change state law on hemp products legislature passed in 2021.

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California’s recent ban on sales of hemp products with “detectable” levels of 30 cannabis derivatives known to have psychoactive properties may be a model for changing the federal law which defines lawful hemp based on the level of one derivative.

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