A federal court challenge to Arkansas’ ban on products containing hemp-derived, intoxicating cannabinoids such as delta-8 THC should be dismissed in part because state law supersedes federal law – including the 2018 Farm Bill.
At least, that’s the argument Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin made in court filings last week.
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Arkansas, which has a legal medical marijuana industry, banned the sale of products containing hemp-derived delta-8 THC as well as delta-9 THC and other synthetic isomers of THC in May when Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 629 into law.
But on July 31, the day before the law took effect, four companies involved in the Arkansas hemp industry sued to overturn the ban.
In their complaint, the four argue that the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp production nationwide, overrides any state-level effort to ban or more strictly regulate products containing compounds derived from hemp.
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