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US: Attorney General group hosts meeting on future of hemp

Current and former state officials, advocates and business representatives met last week to discuss the legal landscape around hemp-derived cannabinoid products, including what led to the explosion of intoxicating products across the country, potential harms posed by the largely unregulated market and how policymakers are moving forward amid the uncertainty.

Hosted by the Attorney General Alliance (AGA), a nonprofit that represents state attorneys general, the June 4 webinar featured current and former officials from Oregon, Florida, California and Nevada as well as representatives of business and advocacy groups.

The presentation, "Illicit Hemp-Derived Intoxicants: State Enforcement Mechanisms and Challenges," was part of AGA's Cannabis Project, which the group says "seeks to provide interested parties an opportunity to dialogue on how cannabis legalization might preserve public health and safety, protect consumers and ensure the rule of law, while also respecting the role of states to innovate and experiment as laboratories of democracy."

Since Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp nationwide, largely unregulated products containing not only CBD but also psychoactive THC—which the Farm Bill sought to limit in hemp products—have proliferated online and at storefronts across the country.

Read more at Marijuana Moment