Newsom’s “emergency” rules banning all THC in hemp products doesn’t square with his insistence that his state provides more freedom than Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed strict new rules on intoxicating substances derived from hemp. The crackdown would give the Golden State more punitive drug laws than even Florida.
Newsom, who was floated as a potential replacement for Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket, announced new “emergency regulations” on Friday. Under the new rules, any “industrial hemp final form food product intended for human consumption” must contain “no detectable amount of total THC,” and “each package shall have no more than five servings.” The new regulations would also prohibit anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing any hemp-derived food products.
Newsom sold the new regulations as necessary to protect children from accessing intoxicating products. “The industry bears full responsibility for not policing itself for the proliferation of these intoxicating products that are hurting our children,” Newsom said at a press conference announcing the new regulations.
THC is the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in cannabis. Typically, this refers to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, which creates the “high” from smoking marijuana, though there are other variations as well: Delta-8-THC occurs in hemp—derived from the same plant as marijuana—and presents a similar, though milder, response compared to delta-9. [Read More @ Reason]
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