Hemp industry pushes back on Virginia’s delta-8 crackdown

The plans of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration to crackdown on the sale of certain psychoactive products like delta-8 hit a wall of resistance from the hemp industry at a Thursday meeting of a new task force. Critics of the plan argue the rules were rushed, unenforceable and would spark legal challenges.

“We wake up one morning and we find out that we may be in breach of the law,” Maurice Robinson, owner of Greener Things store in Charlottesville, told state officials on a new hemp task force in Richmond.

“And that's unsettling to a lot of us.”