Delta-8's Wild West days may be numbered.
The Farm Bill is up for renewal, and some argue it's time to close a loophole that allows THC-containing delta-8 to be sold without restriction.Federal lawmakers face growing pressure to close a loophole in the U.S. Farm Bill that allows commercial sale of THC-containing hemp products such as delta-8. Those products, widely available in retail spaces ranging from smoke shops to convenience stores, produce a similar high to cannabis but are technically legal to sell and buy.
"Regardless of your Committees' intentions, the reality is that this law has unleashed on our states a flood of products that are nothing less than a more potent form of cannabis, often in candy form that is made attractive to youth and children — with staggering levels of potency, no regulation, no oversight, and a limited capability for our offices to rein them in," the AGs said.
Indeed, a national survey of more than 2,000 high school seniors from the youth polling group Monitoring the Future found more than 11% had used delta-8 in the past year.that the lack of regulation on intoxicating hemp products is troubling, especially their accessibility to kids. However, he said banning them in the Farm Bill is the wrong approach.
If Texas moves to do so, it would join more than a dozen states that have banned delta-8 and similar products, according to the National Cannabis Industry Association. Several others have passed laws restricting the availability of the intoxicants.While hemp producers may not want to see alterations to the Farm Bill, some in the legal cannabis industry have no problem with that. Nor with Texas lawmakers curbing delta-8's availability.
"I'm not against broad-scale legalization in this country, but it needs to be done in a well-regulated fashion," he said."It needs to be done like in other states that have regulated their recreational markets, which requires stringent testing. Because this is a bio-accumulator plant, and it sucks up heavy metals and pesticides and puts them in the flower. And you do not want to be consuming that.
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