(A version of this story first appeared at Hemp Industry Daily.)
Last-minute disagreements about the rise of hemp-derived THC products in Washington state derailed legislative proposals to ban the sale of delta-8 THC derived from hemp extracts.
Washington state lawmakers looked at several bills to address hemp-derived intoxicants but failed to arrive at a compromise.
According to the Associated Press, lawmakers couldn’t agree on how much authority to give the state’s Liquor and Cannabis Board, the agency that regulates adult-use marijuana.
A cannabis attorney in Seattle, Justin P. Walsh of Gleam Law, told Hemp Industry Daily that dueling proposals about hemp intoxicants sold outside Washington state’s regulated adult-use marijuana market failed to gain enough support to advance to the governor’s desk during the state’s 60-day legislative term.
“The scuttlebutt is that it was a failure of some legislators to bring everyone to one table to hash it out,” said Walsh, who also teaches about cannabis policy and law at Seattle University School of Law.
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Lawmakers in many places are vowing to act after being surprised that federal law appears to allow licensed hemp operators to convert hemp-derived THC intoxicants that don’t exceed federal limits for delta-9 THC. That variant is the most abundant version of THC in the plant.
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