Missouri’s governor ordered the state’s Department of Health & Senior Services to remove products containing intoxicating hemp substances from the market.
Gov. Mike Parson cited health concerns and lack of research on hemp-derived psychoactive substance as well as their accessibility to children as the reason for the order, Hemp Today reported.
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Parson directed the Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) to use Missouri’s food code to prohibit the products after Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft rejected his executive order to do so.
Without Ashcroft’s approval and support from the state’s Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, the DHSS acted without enforcement authority when it embargoed the products beginning Sept. 1.
That means the agency must visit each retailer to put an
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