“We have to make sure that we don’t have unintended consequences, and destroy things that do not need to be destroyed.”
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent
A push for Missouri to immediately adopt planned federal limits on intoxicating hemp products ran into a filibuster in the state Senate Wednesday, with critics demanding any changes wait until national regulations go into effect in November.
Democratic state Sen. Karla May of St. Louis led the two-hour filibuster of a bill that would immediately ban hemp-derived THC beverages and edibles as soon as the legislation was passed and signed into law.
May argued during a Senate debate Wednesday that the federal limits will likely change before they’re enacted later this year. Congress passed the provision to ban these products as part of the federal spending package last year.
She offered an amendment that would align the Senate bill with a proposal sponsored in the House by Republican state Rep. Dave Hinman of O’Fallon to allow Missouri to sell the products if Congress permits them nationwide.
Hinman’s bill has cleared a House committee and is ready to be debated by the full chamber.
“When Congress voted on this whole thing, this was just literally to reopen the government,” May said. “I mean,
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