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FLORIDA SENATE PASSES BILL TO RESTRICT HEMP PRODUCTS AND BAN DELTA-8 THC
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“When we passed the hemp program, it was not in anticipation of highly
intoxicated, sometimes psychoactive substances being ingested by Floridians.”
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
The Florida Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a measure regulating hemp
products in Florida, with the House expected to move ahead as well on the
regulations. Meanwhile, officials in the hemp industry fear for the worse:
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The Senate legislation (SB 1698) would place caps on the amount of THC in
hemp-derived products sold in smoke shops throughout Florida. THC is the main
component in element in cannabis that provides the psychoactive or “high”
effect.
The measure also bans the sale of delta-8 products, one of the most popular
items sold in these retail establishments since it came on the market shortly
after Florida created their hemp program in 2019. And it would prohibit
businesses from possessing hemp extract products that are considered
“attractive” to children. Central Florida GOP Sen. Colleen Burton is the bill
sponsor.
According to the National Cannabis Industry Association, delta-8 THC is banned
in 17 states and severely restricted in seven more.
Burton says the bill is needed to protect the safety of Floridians.
“When we passed the hemp program, it was not in anticipation of highly
intoxicated, sometimes psychoactive substances being ingested by Floridians,”
she said on the Senate floor on Wednesday, when the bill came up for
consideration. “The concerns we have had over the potential misuses of this
product I believe has exceeded our expectations. So that’s why we have this bill
today to continue the protections that we started last session.”
The next day, Thursday, the measure was voted on and passed.
The legislation now puts THC caps on hemp products; individual servings cannot
exceed 2 milligrams, and containers cannot exceed more than 10 milligrams.
The bill received bipartisan support.
“We do need to add regulations to a product, especially in the cannabis/sativa
arena, to protect Floridians, and I think that’s what you’re doing here, and I
am eager to support this bill,” said Jacksonville Democratic Sen. Tracie Davis
on Thursday.
Burton sponsored legislation during the 2023 session that originally included
limits on hemp products, but after receiving strong pushback from members of the
industry as well as regular Floridians who said they relied on the product to
deal with physical pain, the final product simply barred the sale of such
products to individuals under the age of 21. It also banned marketing that
targets children and the packaging of such products that resemble candy that
could be attractive to kids.
The bill that passed in the Senate on Thursday also includes more provisions on
making hemp items less attractive to children. It defines attractive “as
products that are manufactured in the shape or packaged in containers displaying
humans, cartoons, or animals, toys or other features that specifically target
children; manufactured in a form or packaged in a container that bears any
reasonable resemblance to an existing candy or snack product that is familiar to
the public.”
The bill also requires that before an event where hemp products are being sold
or marketed, an event organizer must provide the state Department of Agriculture
with a list of the businesses selling or marketing hemp extract products at the
event and verify that each business is only selling hemp products from an
approved source. The event organizer must ensure that each participating
business is properly permitted.
It would also allocate $2 million in nonrecurring funds to the Department of Law
Enforcement for the purchase of testing equipment for substances that might be
seized, Burton said.
Total sales from hemp businesses totaled more than $10 billion in Florida in
2022, according to a 2023 analysis from Whitney Economics. That report also said
that the industry employs approximately 104,000 workers paying in excess of $3.6
billion in annual wages.
Despite the concerns voiced by those who work in the hemp industry over the past
two legislative sessions that the proposal will be extremely detrimental,
Republicans have been relatively unsympathetic.
“I think it was a measured bill,” Senate President Kathleen Passidomo told
reporters on Wednesday, following the Senate session that day. “It was well
thought out. You can tell that Sen. Burton spent a lot of time on it and
listened to the stakeholders who appeared in committee, and she ended up with a
good bill. So I am not concerned about it.”
Manatee County Republican Tommy Gregory, the sponsor of the bill in the
House (HB 1613), also said earlier this week that he has no concerns about the
impact of the legislation on those in the hemp industry.
“I don’t concede that that actually it’s going to have a negative fiscal impact
on businesses or revenue derived from taxes based on those businesses,” he said.
The House bill passed in the Infrastructure Strategies Committee on Thursday
afternoon, and that will now go to the House for a floor vote. If approved
there, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) would then have to sign the measure for it to go
into law.
This story was first published by Florida Phoenix.
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