“The charade of hemp intoxicants must end. Sneaking in the back door with synthetic drugs nobody asked for is not the path to legalization.”
By Chris Lindsey, American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp
Last week, the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) asked its supporters to urge Congress to keep intoxicating hemp products on the market. I read the group’s action alert with more than professional interest. I spent nearly a decade on MPP’s staff, helping pass medical and adult-use cannabis and decriminalization laws throughout the country. I am proud of that work.
That is why MPP’s latest campaign troubles me. It asks Congress to protect synthetic THC products and THCa flower that bypasses the state regulatory programs MPP built, and it leaves behind the people those programs were meant to serve. In Illinois, that work took six years and three laws: medical access in 2013, decriminalization in 2016 and a legalization law in 2019 that went back and cleared the records of people already convicted.
By its own count, MPP led the way on 15 medical cannabis laws and played a leading role in 14 of the 24 adult-use states. Those states adopted its model of licensing, testing, tracking and
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