The businesses say Virginia is threatening to wipe out a bustling market of products used for pain relief and other purposes that are legal under federal law.
The Virginia law, which took effect in July, imposed new regulations on sales and packaging for hemp products containing tetrahydrocannabinol , the psychoactive component in marijuana. Hemp is not as potent as marijuana, but it can be intoxicating when consumed in gummies or other products that use a form of THC called Delta-8.Some sellers market these products in flashy packaging resembling candy wrappers or kids’ snacks — and the Virginia law was billed as a way to curb those practices.
“We are not challenging the new packaging laws. We are not trying to make it easy for Delta-8 gummies to get into the hands of kids,” said James Markels, the attorney for hemp retailer Northern Virginia Hemp and Agriculture, hemp grower Franny’s Operations in North Carolina, and hemp consumer Rose Lane from Vienna, Va.“We have an economic report that says this law is going to wipe out 80 percent of the current hemp retail industry in Virginia. This was intended. This is not a mistake.
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