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Manatee County Republican Tommy Gregory brought his bill on Monday to the House Agriculture, Conservation and Resiliency Committee. He pitched it to the committee as a consumer protection bill to protect children from being attracted to hemp derived products. The law last year prohibited the marketing that targets children and the packaging of such products that resemble candy that could be attractive to kids.
The new measure includes further moves in that direction—but also includes provisions to limit the amount of THC in hemp derived products by individual servings and packages—and would also ban synthetically or naturally occurring versions of controlled substances listed as delta-8 THC and delta-10 THC.
The 2018 Farm Bill defined hemp as the cannabis plant with one key difference: hemp cannot contain more than 0.3 percent of THC. The most lucrative part of the hemp industry has involved the production of biomass that contains cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound believed to treat health conditions like anxiety, stress, anxiety and inflammation.
On Monday, there were more than a dozen people who work in the hemp industry who said that the bill if passed as written would devastate their businesses and imperil the entire hemp industry in the state.
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