{"id":5476,"date":"2024-03-31T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2024-03-31T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:08:57","slug":"in-2018-republicans-accidentally-legalized-cannabis-now-22-ags-want-them-to-undo-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=5476","title":{"rendered":"In 2018, Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis. Now 22 AGs want them to undo it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5477\" style=\"width:680px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/80.png 462w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/80-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address \u201cthe glaring vagueness\u201d that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country \u2014 including sometimes from vending machines or online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A letter dated March 20 addresses the consequences of Republican lawmakers\u2019 choice to legalize hemp production in the 2018 omnibus Farm Bill \u2014 a decision that perhaps inadvertently led to a multibillion-dollar market in intoxicating cannabis products that are arguably federally legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the attorneys general want Congress to shutter the market it helped create. In the new Farm Bill, they want the legislature to enshrine in statute the idea that intoxicating cannabis is not federally legal \u2014 contrary to what the law currently states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, they want Congress to say that, by definition, hemp can\u2019t get you high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise of the legal (and intoxicating) hemp market runs counter to the development over the past decade of the highly-regulated recreational and medicinal cannabis industries that voters have approved across the country \u2014 a wild west of exotic cannabinoids sold without any of the strict controls of the formal legal market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause of the ambiguity created by the 2018 Farm Bill, a massive gray market worth an estimated $28 billion has exploded, forcing cannabis-equivalent products into our economies regardless of states\u2019 intentions to legalize cannabis use,\u201d the attorneys general wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bipartisan coalition brings together representatives of a diverse group of states \u2014 not just red and blue, but those where recreational marijuana is legal (California, Hawaii), those where it is only legal for medical use (Pennsylvania) and those where it is fully illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address \u201cthe glaring vagueness\u201d that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country \u2014 including sometimes from vending machines or online. 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