Louisiana’s exploding hemp industry, with CBD stores popping up on every street corner, has outpaced the state’s regulators in producing legal products with THC levels potent enough to produce a high in consumers.
Though hemp’s THC levels are much lower than in cannabis cousin marijuana, retailers have produced products that stack multiple servings of the 8-milligram THC limit in one product like edible gummies or chocolate bars.
THC is the chemical that creates the high. Leafly, a website focused on cannabis use and education, says a 5-milligram dose is “when a high begins to set in for many new or inconsistent consumers.”
The most embarrassing misstep for the Louisiana Department of Health was approving vape pins even though state law makes it illegal for CDB stores to sell hemp products related to inhalation.
Last week the Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee held an oversight hearing for agency officials to explain why they need to make an emergency rule change that would remove vape pins from the department’s approved products list.
Stephen Russo, the health department’s top attorney, testified during the hearing that the agency “inadvertently” removed language regulating “dosage vehicles” that would ban vape pins from being eligible.
The agency approves products by examining product labels rather than an image of the product. Russo said the label for the vape pins met the criteria with label language that included “not for inhalation.”
Lawmakers in the committee…
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