Updates in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio

Check out the latest legislative updates across the states and take action today!

Arizona

We’re starting with good news. In Arizona, a coalition of Hemp Supporters killed the marijuana industry’s final effort to enact a hemp ban this year. We congratulate our friends at the Hemp Industry Trade Association of Arizona for their important work throughout the legislative session, during which they defeated four hemp ban bills!

Florida

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed SB 1698, the anti-hemp bill that would have banned delta-8 and similar products and set total THC limits of 5mg/serving and 50mg/package. Read our General Counsel’s statement here.

Massachusetts

As we feared, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently issued guidance that it is illegal to add CBD or THC to food or beverages. The guidance confirms, however, that hemp-derived ingredients may be added to cosmetics. Until a law protecting all hemp products can be passed, we expect there will be a chill cast across the Massachusetts’ hemp products industry.

North Carolina

North Carolina H563 remains in Senate committee. The House’s version limits ingestible products to 3mg per serving of delta-9, delta-7, delta-8, or delta-10 THC in the aggregate. However, a version adopted by two Senate committees limit non-liquid ingestible products to 25mg per serving of delta-9, delta-7, delta-8, or delta-10 THC in the aggregate and liquid ingestible products to 10mg per serving in the aggregate. The competing versions appear headed for a conference fight.

We urge our North Carolina Hemp Supporters to use our State Action Center to urge lawmakers to support the Senate version.

New York

It looks like New York S9487 was not taken up with the omnibus bill discussed last week.

There’s still time for New York Hemp Supporters to use our State Action Center to urge lawmakers to support this progressive bill, which would increase the current THC limit for beverages to 5mg THC.

Ohio

Finally, we’re hearing that Ohio lawmakers want to pass a behind-the-counter requirement for hemp products, including beverages. Our lobbyist is urging lawmakers to consider Minnesota’s model, which creates an exception for hemp beverages, which do not neatly fit behind the typical counter. Watch this space, as we’ll have more to share soon.

Visit our State Action Center to see active campaigns across the country!

Check out the latest hemp and CBD updates from across the states!

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  Roundtable Roundup: Ohio Bill Would Ban Full Spectrum Hemp, Proposed Illinois Hemp Amendments Raise Concerns on Testing and Transport Restrictions
  Ohio Unfortunately, as we predicted a few weeks ago, the Ohio Senate introduced a bill—SB 326—which would ban all full spectrum hemp products. Specifically, products that contain more than 0.5mg of …
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  Hemp Industry News: U.S. Hemp Authority Webinar Recording, International Hemp Trip, and a USDA Hemp Grant
  We made it! Our USHA webinar went off without a hitch. With over 100 attendees, this was our most successful webinar to date.  Chris Fontes provided an excellent background of …
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  Roundtable Roundup: Updates in Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Louisiana and Tennessee
  Georgia Last month, the Georgia Department of Agriculture proposed changes to existing rules for hemp products, as well as a proposed new rule for consumable hemp products. While many of the changes to the …