Marijuana Moment
“If somebody wants a product like that, they can very easily get it at a dispensary and that’s where it should be obtained.”
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent
A second proposal backed by Missouri’s hemp industry to regulate products like hemp-THC seltzers and edibles was defeated in a House committee Thursday morning, after the hemp-beverage distributor who helped draft the bill emailed committee members that morning asking them to kill it.
The 5-7 vote in the House General Laws committee came after state Rep. Dave Hinman of O’Fallon (R), the bill sponsor, spent hours last week trying to come up with a compromise among the splintered hemp industry leaders on regulations.
The same committee voted down a bill backed by the Missouri Hemp Trade Association last week in a 1-13 vote.
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