Six hemp companies and a major lobbying group for the industry filed a lawsuit seeking to block California’s ban on intoxicating hemp-derived products.
The U.S. Hemp Roundtable filed the suit against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, the day after the state’s Office of Administrative Law approved the ban, which immediately put the moratorium in place.
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The ban was proposed by the CDPH, whose recommendation resulted in Gov. Gavin Newsom issuing emergency regulations on Sept. 6 to prohibit any “detectable levels of THC or other intoxicating cannabinoids” in hemp products.
The emergency regulations imposed an age requirement of 21 to purchase hemp products and expanded the definition of THC to include 30 different isomers
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