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Ohio Governor Issues Order Banning Intoxicating Hemp Product Sales For 90 Days

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October 9, 2025

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“The poisoning hemp does not require the necessary tests … and selling children in attractive packages.”

Megan Henry, by Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine (r) has been an executive 90-day executive order for banning sale of crusemen poisoning products from next Tuesday.

Intoxizing kalamu products, elements that are not dispensed by the licensed marijuana, such as gas stations, smoke shops and CBD stores, among others. This ban includes drinks inhabited.

“I’m doing the action today … to get these products out of the streets and get rid of our shelves,” Dewine said on Wednesday at the press conference. “The poisoning hemp is dangerous and we need to better protect our children … that’s what we think to do that.”

The 90-day executive order ends on January 12, 2026, which is then legislators if you want to see more actions to the hemp intoxicating.

“I won’t tell you what to do, but we need to have a little control of this product,” Dewine said. “We can’t afford to do not legal people to sell to children.”

These stores that violate the executive store could be a fine of $ 500 per day on the shelves of hemp products per day.

The 2018 farm invoice says that Kalamua can be grown legally if less than 0.3 percent.

“After these laws, the chemists began the manipulative compounds in the legal halmid plant, including these compounds intoxikers, including Delta-8 and Delta-9,” DeWine said “It’s completely different product”.

Marijuana is not a hemp intoxicating product and is legal at Ohio.

Dewine has called legislators to regulate or prohibit delta-8 products since January 2024. He said before he could not sign the executive command about the hemp.

“We think we have authority to do this, and I will not sit and I will not,” Dewine explained how he returned to his lawyers.

It was previously reported by an Ohio Kalamu product regulations with 20 states, according to Ohio State University Drug Implementing and Policy Center studies in November 2024.

In January 2024, he reported at least 257 Delta-8’s intoxications in recent years, according to children under 102 and under 40, according to Ohio Poison Control Center.

“Hemp Products Intoxicating, such as Delta-8, has risen significantly to the unexpected number of reasons among children,” Dr. Hannah Hays, General Manager of Ohio Poison Central and toxic toxic toxic.

Children who swallow intoxicating hemp products can be severity, hallucination, confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures and respiratory failure, Hays said.

“I don’t want to sell the product to children,” Dewine said. “I think the risk of our children is clear, and today I am taking action to protect children from Ohio. These kids are now weak in the presence of candy products for sale in Ohio State.”

DeWine had three products from Hourlytrically, at the Wednesday press conference, Stoner Patch Dummies (similar to Patch Sour Bears), Nerds Gummy Cluster), and infused gums similar to).

“With the poisoning hemp, this product does not have any restrictions where it can be sold or who can buy,” Dewine said. “The poisoning hemp does not require necessary tests … and selling in packages attracted to children, often imitates the containers of common candy.”

Nerdy Bear Gummy Bear has more than 100 milligrams thc, depending on the vessels.

“For context, adult products will be 10 milligrams per serving,” Dewine said. “It’s certainly easy to see how a child will mix this product with real candy and eat some warriors and ask hospitalization.”

Ohio cannabis coalition praised Dewine’s executive order.

“For a long time, the Hemp Industry has heard the farm invoice to align the health damage to Ohio’s health,” Ohcann David Executive Director of Executive Director. “To date, without regaining synthetic synthetic synthetic zucchini, consumers, especially children, jeopardizing.”

The hemp industry, however, spoke quickly against Dewine’s executive order.

“Thanks to the Executive DeWine Commission, Ohio will lose access to safe and legal products and Michael Tindall’s executive director said to small businesses of Ohio.

He said there are more than 2,000 smoke and hemp shops, and there are more than 4,000 outlets throughout Ohio, who sell hemp products.

Dewine’s command is “wrong abuse”, “Jonathan Miller said, the general advice of the US hemp-table.

“We are futraud to avoid the governor who is trying to avoid the legislature of Ohio and avoid corrective powers in crushing the state hemp industry, to kill the work,” Miller said in a statement. “Instead of the ban, Ohio should follow the limits of minor age, promising independent third-party tests, requiring detailed labeling and ensuring products with American hemp.”

The American Republic Politics Dakota Sawyer agrees that hemp products should not be in children, but Dewin said they agree with the approach to prohibiting all products.

“We should go after the bad actors, but don’t punish good actors,” he said. “This executive order will be turned down (good actors) down. This will leave them out of business. People will not be able to put food on their plates for families.”

State Republic. Tex Fischer, R-Boardman, said the executive promise is supervising.

“I think the legislature work is legislative,” he said. “I don’t think it’s legalizing the governor’s job.”

They are known to be important effects that develop brains that develop kalamu products. However, these products are legally marketed to children, selling children and swallow children in Ohio. Today, I signed an executive request that takes measures to maintain dangerous products … pic.twitter.com/uakvt77sj1

– Governor Mike Dewine (@govmikeDewine) 8 October 2025

Intoxication of hemp bills

There is a handful Invoices in the legislature that would regulate hemp intoxication Products in different ways.

Ohio Senate Bill 266 The sale of hemp products would prohibit people under the age of 21. Marijuana is to prohibit sale of hemp products that have not been tested in the same rules and prevent children with attractive hemp products.

Ohio Senate 86 bill Sales of Kalamu products would prohibit prohibit under the age of 21, imposing 10% tax to hemp products and Regulate cannabinoid products.

The invoice would require crusher products to sell adult use only in marijuana dispensaries, in CBD stores, comfort stores, smoking stores or gas stations instead of selling. Kalamu products would require intoxicating products if products are tested and packaged, labeling and complying with advertising standards.

Ohio Senate 56 bill The marijuana dispensary would allow only to sell package, labeling and advertising requirements. This year the invoice passed in the Senate would also change parts of the State Marijuana law.

Ohio House bill 160 mostly treats Potential changes in state marijuana lawsBut it is also a intoxicating Hamp supply, each Thc product can only be sold in the Dispensaries of the Regulated Marijuana of Ohio.

This entry was published by Ohio Capital Journal for the first time.

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Colombia legalizes sale of medical cannabis

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10 hours ago

October 31, 2025

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Colombia, in the midst of its war on drugs, has authorized the sale of marijuana for medicinal use, according to a decree made public by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday. The Latin American country legalized medical cannabis in 2016 and allowed the export of its dried flowers to regulated countries in 2021, but until now it could not be sold locally due to a legal loophole.

Now, the Ministries of Health, Justice and Agriculture have a period of five months to “issue the relevant regulations” to facilitate the application of the decree. Pharmacies and veterinary clinics will have to obtain a license to sell cannabis flowers containing the psychoactive ingredient THC, and consumers will have to present a medical prescription to purchase them.

The law regarding personal marijuana use in Colombia is permissive, and the authorities there allow personal consumption, cultivation and possession of small amounts of cannabis, but there is no regulated market for buying and selling it for recreational use.

Colombia’s heavy drug production has come under heavy criticism amid the country’s conflict with US President Donald Trump, who removed the South American country from a list of anti-drug allies, suspending financial aid that came with the list.

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Florida Marijuana Legalization Campaign Sues State Over ‘Nonsensical’ Delay In Ballot Initiative Review

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October 31, 2025

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A Florida campaign working to put a marijuana legalization initiative on the 2026 ballot has filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court, alleging that officials are violating election laws by unjustifiably stalling the review process for the measure.

Smart & Safe Florida filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court on Thursday, alleging that the secretary of state has failed to comply with the law’s mandate to “immediately send” enough signatures to the attorney general to initiate a fiscal and legal review.

With 662,543 signatures verified by the Secretary of State so far, that’s more than triple the 220,016 signatures needed to push the review forward. The campaign reached that initial threshold over the summer and notified state officialsbut he says that he has not received an answer.

“It is senseless, and contrary to specific constitutional and statutory orders, that the Secretary (of State) and the Director (of the Division of Elections) indefinitely refuse to issue the Article 15.21 letter and frustrate the constitutional order,” the filing says, referring to the notification that the Secretary of State must send to the attorney general when the signature is received.

Attorneys for the campaign also noted that Smart & Safe Florida is involved in other lawsuits state is taking ‘illegal’ steps to force nearly 200,000 voter signatures to be invalidated has presented Officials say the signatures are invalid because the petitions signed by voters do not include the full text of the initiative.

“Therefore, perhaps Respondents speculate that the Secretary’s Directive may ultimately result in the invalidation of a sufficient number of Petitions to bring the measure below the threshold for issuing Section 15.21,” the Supreme Court said. “It’s a dubious presumption at best that Smart & Safe has collected more than three times the number of valid verified applications required statewide and nearly doubled the number of congressional districts.”

“In any event, speculation about Defendants’ motive is futile here because the law is clear that Smart & Safe has the right, and Defendants have a mandatory statutory duty, to issue a Section 15.21, because the statutory requirements have been met,” it says.

“The Secretary and the Director seem to see that the regional officials are valid and behind the reported requests (and as reflected on the Division’s website). The respondents seem to be refusing Article 15.21, that the fulfillment of the Secretary’s Directive by the county officials can lead to the Request that there is no legal source of the authors.

what the case The goal is to compel the court to “force the Florida Secretary of State to follow Florida law and fulfill his mandatory statutory duty to advance the ballot initiative for Supreme Court review as required by the Florida Constitution,” Smart & Safe Florida said in a statement.

“Florida law clearly states that once a statewide ballot initiative collects more than 25 percent of the signatures, the Secretary of State must begin the Supreme Court review process and forward the language to the state Attorney General,” he said. “For reasons unknown, that has not happened, and we are asking the court to step in and compel the secretary to follow Florida’s long-standing law, as Florida Smart & Safe far exceeded that threshold last summer.”

As for the other issue regarding the state’s effort to cancel the approximately 200,000 signatures already collected, the secretariat initially Smart & Safe sent a letter of resignation to Florida in Marchadvising the campaign on the interpretation of the rules regarding the inclusion of the full text of the proposed initiative in its petitions for signatures.

This is the second vote of the campaign. They successfully got a vote on a version of the 2024 initiative, and a majority voted to pass it, but not enough to meet the state’s 60 percent threshold to pass a constitutional amendment.

In the background of this case, in August a federal judge ruled against Smart & Safe Florida—Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to provide “full relief” from provisions of a law he signed to impose other severe restrictions on signature gathering.

Although the law DeSantis signed in May was not directly aimed at the cannabis initiative, there has been concern among supporters that it could jeopardize an already complex and expensive process to gather enough signatures to put it on the ballot. That’s because it would block non-residents and non-citizens from collecting signatures for ballot measures.

In March, two Democratic members of Congress representing Florida asked the federal government to investigate What they described as an “illegal diversion” of millions in state Medicaid funds Through a group with ties to DeSantis. The money was used to fight a popular ballot initiative the governor vehemently opposed that would have legalized adult marijuana.

The lawmakers’ letter alleges that a $10 million donation from a state legislative settlement was misappropriated to the Hope Florida Foundation, which later sent the money to two political nonprofits, and sent $8.5 million to the anti-Amendment 3 campaign.

The governor said this in February The latest measure to legalize marijuana is in “big trouble” with the state Supreme CourtHe announced that it will be blocked from going before the voters next year.

“There are a lot of different views on marijuana,” DeSantis said. “It shouldn’t be in our Constitution. If you feel strongly about it, you have a legislative election. Bring back the candidates you think will be able to deliver what you think about it.”

“But when you put these things in the Constitution, and I think, I mean, the way they were written, there’s all kinds of things going on here. I think it’s going to have a lot of trouble getting passed by the Florida Supreme Court,” he said.

the last the initiative It was introduced to the secretary of state just months after initial versions failed in the November 2024 election, despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

The revised version of Smart & Safe Florida is expected to be successful in 2026. The campaign — which received tens of millions of dollars from cannabis industry players in the last election cycle, notably from multi-state operator Trulieve — introduced some changes in the new version that address criticisms of opponents of the 2024 push.

For example, it now specifically states that “smoking and vaping marijuana in any public place is prohibited.” Another section states that the legislature should adopt rules governing the “time, place and public manner of consuming marijuana.”

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Last year, the governor accurately predicted this The campaign’s 2024 cannabis measure would survive a legal challenge From the state attorney general. It’s not entirely clear why he thinks this version will face a different outcome.

Although there is uncertainty about how the state’s highest court will navigate the measure, a poll released in February It showed the overwhelming support of a bipartisan voter for reform— 67% of Florida voters support legalization, including 82% of Democrats, 66% of independents and 55% of Republicans.

However, the results echo another recent poll by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, a proactive opponent of legalization, which found a majority in favor of reform among likely voters (53 percent). but not enough to be able to set the 60 percent condition.

Another poll of Republican voters in Florida showed only 40 percent of that demographic said they would vote for it of the legalization proposal.

Also, a GOP senator from Florida recently claimed this the legalization campaign “tricked” Trump into supporting the 2024 measure misleading him and the general public about key provisions.

Before the election, Trump said he was sorry last September The 3rd Amendment “would have been great” for the state.

Before commenting, Trump met with Truliev CEO Kim Riverseven with a GOP state senator who favors reform.

Meanwhile, there are medical marijuana officials in Florida actively expunging the records of patients and caregivers with drug-related criminal records. The policy is part of the sweeping budget legislation that DeSantis signed into law earlier this year. The aforementioned provisions address the State Department of Health (DOH). void the records of medical marijuana patients and caregivers if convicted of drug offenses, or pleaded guilty or no contest.

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IM Cannabis CFO steps down

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1 day ago

October 30, 2025

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IM Cannabis has announced that Uri Birenberg, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will be stepping down for personal reasons. Mr. Birenberg is expected to continue as Chief Financial Officer until January 5, 2026, or an earlier date to be determined by the Company, and will assist in a structured transition process until a successor is named.

Oren Shuster, CEO of IMC, said: “On behalf of our entire team, I want to thank Ur for his commitment and contribution to IMC. Over the past two years, he has been a valued member of our leadership team. We wish him every success in his next chapter.”

“It has been a great pleasure to serve as the Company’s Finance Director for the last two years,” said Uri Birenberg. “I have the utmost confidence in the Company and appreciate the opportunity to work with one of the most dedicated teams in the cannabis industry.”

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