The freewheeling days for hemp-derived THC in America appear to be dwindling.
After a seven-year boom for hemp-derived THC products, lawmakers are pursuing blanket bans or disruptively strict regulations on intoxicating hemp products in about a dozen states, a situation that’s sowing deep anxieties across the industry, advocates and operators told MJBizDaily.
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In contrast to the blanket ban on hemp-THC products imposed last fall in California, little of the nationwide hemp crackdown seems immediately poised to help struggling operators in the regulated marijuana industry who saw hemp as an unwelcome competitor playing by different rules.
In some of the new restrictive laws, hemp operators see the hand of an alcohol industry aware that young people are drinking less and keen to capture a
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