Coming on the heels of our article detailing how THC drinks are booming, we can now turn to a place where they’re basically nonexistent.
Gavin Newsom, governor of California, enacted an emergency ban on Hemp-derived THC products in stores in September of last year. As stated in our article, the Farm Bill loophole allows THC that is derived from hemp to be sold outside of the normal disensary-setting, and many cannabis drink companies have been thriving within these bounds.
Now, months after the ban was enacted, Newsom has declared that businesses are 99.7% in compliance. That’s after the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control sent out officers to 11,445 businesses across the state to check for any THC products.
The ban was only good for 6 months, but then extended another 90 days to make it end in late June. There can only be one more extension, and after that it’s unclear which steps Newsom can take to curb the exploding popularity of these drinks from sprouting back up.
Read the original article at SFGate.
