The sponsor of the THC product ban complained that lawmakers would end the session “having done nothing” on hemp.
By Leslie Bonilla Muniz, Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana’s prohibition on intoxicating and synthetic hemp-derived drugs was dead for less than a week before it was resurrected and killed again—this time, until at least next year.
Indiana will go another year without a 21-plus age limit on intoxicating hemp products, bill author Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, bemoaned Friday.
Lawmakers have repeatedly tried to regulate potent delta-8, TCHA and other cannabinoid products, which have existed in a legal gray area for eight years. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana, which remains banned at the federal level and in the Hoosier State.
Efforts in Indiana have consistently failed amid a House-Senate stalemate on how expansive or limiting the state’s approach should be.
Freeman’s Senate Bill 250 struck a stricter tone, mirroring Congress’s recent closure of a so-called loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill. That law defined legal hemp as any part of the plant containing less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC by dry weight, sparking a booming industry for other intoxicating cannabinoids.
A stopgap federal funding law enacted in November specifies that all forms of THC count.
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