Ganjapreneur reports via The Missouri Independent
Missouri’s ban on intoxicating hemp products is in limbo after Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft last week rejected the governor’s executive order detailing the ban, arguing the emergency rules did not meet certain state law criteria.
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The ban, which was supposed to take effect on September 1, would have prohibited the sale of hemp-derived products containing delta-8 and delta-10 THC, hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-O), tetrahydrocannabiphoral (THCP), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV). But after Ashcroft rejected the governor’s plan, officials now must submit rules to ban intoxicating hemp products like they would any other law — a process that could take up to six months, the governor said in a scathing letter to Ashcroft.
“Without question, our office and hundreds of thousands of parents and grandparents across the state view the matter of protecting Missouri children as an emergency in need of immediate action. By refusing to grant emergency rules to ban the sale of unregulated psychoactive cannabis products, especially to children, Secretary Ashcroft is choosing personal vendetta and unregulated, dangerous products over the health and safety of Missouri kids.” — Gov. Parson, in a press release
A spokesperson for Ashcroft’s office said he has the “discretion to determine what constitutes an emergency rule” and noted that the standard rules procedure includes a 30- or 60-day comment period, “where individuals on both sides can comment on the rule.” After the public comment period, the proposal would be considered by state lawmakers on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, the report said.
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Missouri Secretary of State Rejects Governor’s Ban on Intoxicating Hemp Products
