“We’d just like, in Indiana, some certainty as to these products so that the people manufacturing and selling them know kind of what our laws are.”
By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana lawmakers seek to align state law with a recently enacted federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products—over opposition from the burgeoning delta-8 industry.
The lengthy, complex legislation also would regulate less potent products that do pass legal muster.
But, “there’s going to be no demand,” for products under the proposed threshold, asserted Justin Swanson, representing the Midwest Hemp Council and 3Chi, a THC product retailer.
THC is the active ingredient in marijuana.
Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, confessed in committee Thursday that he’d rather “eliminate all these things from the planet, period,” but that his proposal “is what’s possible.”
His Senate Bill 250 would mimic Congress’s closure of what Freeman described as the “Farm Bill loophole,” referring to the 2018 legislation that defined legal hemp as any part of the plant containing less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC by dry weight. That definition allowed products containing delta-8, THCA and other intoxicating cannabinoids to proliferate, including in Indiana.
A stopgap federal funding law enacted in November specifies that all forms
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