“These drugs honestly have been always illegal, but we brought clarity to the law and we brought reinforcement to the law.”
By Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) on Wednesday formally cleared the way for the state to enforce a law regulating hemp-derived products following the conclusion of litigation challenging an earlier state measure banning the sale of these products.
Act 934 of 2025 updated a 2023 law that prohibited the sale and distribution of certain hemp-derived products, such as Delta-8 and THC-O, according to a press release from Griffin’s office.
The 2023 law was challenged and blocked by a federal judge who said it likely was preempted by the 2018 Farm Bill, which prohibits laws that interfere with the right to transport hemp in interstate commerce.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction last summer, allowing Arkansas to implement its ban on these products. Within three months, the state’s Department of Finance and Administration seized more than 6,000 products, according to the release.
The 2025 law was to take effect once Griffin certified that a final judgment had been issued in the litigation. The Republican attorney general signed that certification Wednesday at a news conference in his office.
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