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

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7 months ago

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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NC lawmakers revisit marijuana policy following reclassification

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12 hours ago

April 28, 2026

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North Carolina lawmakers say they’re fueling debate over the state’s marijuana laws — a move by the Trump administration to reclassify it as a less dangerous drug.

Across the country, a set of laws and enforcements regulate marijuana. The drug is illegal under federal law, but dozens of US states have legalized it. And almost all states have legalized medical marijuana prescriptions for certain ailments. North Carolina is among the remaining states to resist any form of legalization. Republican politicians in North Carolina have resisted passing any bills to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, despite public opinion polls showing broad public support for such changes.

Senate President Phil Berger said he expects his chamber to revisit efforts to legalize medical marijuana this week. “We will have a conversation within our caucus if they are interested in whether we do something,” Berger told reporters Tuesday.

The recent actions of Republican President Donald Trump may add a new dimension to these conversations. Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed the drug classification as a less dangerous and less strictly regulated drug than marijuana. Federal law does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use.

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Indiana GOP Governor Directs State Agencies To Meet With Medical Marijuana Advocates As Federal Rescheduling Takes Effect

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13 hours ago

April 28, 2026

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Indiana state officials are holding a series of meetings with medical marijuana advocates at the behest of the Republican governor.

After a day The Trump administration announced that federal cannabis regulation is moving forwardOfficials from the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and other state agencies spoke with Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis and Indiana NORML to discuss next steps at the state level.

The meetings, activists said, were at the request of Gov. Mike Braun (R).

“The governor has reached out to us to meet with other heads of his department to get their input on this move,” military veteran Jeff Staker, one of the advocates, told Fox 59. “Our next step, hopefully, will be in the governor’s office.”

Lucy Luman, who is also a veteran and serves as president of Indiana NORML, he said That federal reform “addresses major challenges our lawmakers have raised before.”

Advocates previously met with Indiana Secretary of Business Affairs Mike Speedy, they told WHTR-TV.

“It tells you that the governor has considered it well, and I hope that our organization and others will come into the governor’s office and discuss with him and brainstorm more,” Staker. he said. “You have to realize that a lot of our state legislators have been waiting for that to happen.”

“The feds have made their move, and now it’s time for Indiana to make ours,” he said. “And of course we want to do well.”

State Rep. Jim Lucas (R) said federal marijuana rescheduling “takes away the arguments that the opposition had in our state.”

State Sen. Rodney Pol (D) agreed, saying the Trump administration’s action has “helped get the ball rolling.”

last month, The governor said the “crescendo will rise” in the call to legalize marijuanaregional dynamics as well as law enforcement by opting for reform. But for now, he said, the GOP legislative leadership is “not interested in doing anything anytime soon,” even though “half of Hoosiers probably smoke illegally.”

Braun said he thinks lawmakers should take an “extra look” at medical cannabis and, while he’s personally “agnostic” about legalization, the reality is Indiana is “now surrounded by four states” that allow medicinal or adult use of cannabis.

“Probably half of Hoosiers smoke illegally,” he said, noting that suburban Kentucky allows patients to access medical cannabis, while Illinois, Michigan and Ohio have recreational marijuana laws.

“I’m going to listen to law enforcement. They’ve even changed their minds about legalizing and regulating,” Braun said, adding that he compared cannabis to gambling. The state was late to pass laws allowing adults to gamble, he said, but now ranks among the top three states nationally in terms of per capita revenue from vice.

“Some people won’t want to, just on principle. A lot of police and sheriffs in our state are willing to cross the border (to buy cannabis). It’s going to be a growing problem, so far, the way our state legislature has opposed it,” he said. “I’ve been more agnostic about it. I can see the points of view, and I’ve seen law enforcement move somewhat.”

“So that will give you the best description of where the dynamic is in our state,” the governor told WOWO. “I think the leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the House in particular are cool — and they control the legislative agenda — they’re not interested in doing anything anytime soon. But I think the crescendo will rise, and that pretty much describes where we are.”

Braun also addressed the issue in another recent interview, saying the state will “probably have to address” the issue and pairing cannabis reform with sports betting.

State legislators already He stated that there is no legalization of marijuana in the 2026 sessionThis is another year where Indiana will be left out as one of the few states without effective medical or adult use cannabis laws.

The governor said this separately in January He “fits in” with the idea of legalizing medical cannabis in the state. Instead, Indiana lawmakers this session have focused on efforts to ban THC hemp products, though The fight for 2026 appears to be over after a last-minute push failed late last month.

Braun has previously said that federal marijuana reorganization He could add “some fire” to the local push to legalize cannabis in his state.

Among Indiana residents, a survey released in January found that nearly three in five supported the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis.

Specifically, Ball State University’s (BSU) Bowen Center’s annual Hoosier Poll found that 59 percent of residents support the legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes. An additional 25 percent return allowing patients to access medical marijuana, bringing total support for that reform to 84 percent.

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Braun, for his part, He previously said it is “probably time” to introduce therapeutic cannabis among state patients. The comments came alongside a separate poll showing that nearly 9 in 10 Indiana adults (87 percent) support the legalization of marijuana.

The main Republicans in the Legislature, however, They have openly opposed marijuana reform.

“It’s no secret that I’m not,” Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray (R) said at the end of 2024. “I don’t have people coming to me with really compelling medical cases to find out why it’s so beneficial. And any situation I’ve seen, it’s passing medical marijuana, it’s basically passing recreational marijuana.”

House Speaker Todd Huston (R) questioned any medical benefits associated with marijuana, calling the substance a “mental health deterrent.” He and others suggested that lawmakers in favor of reform simply want to increase state revenue.

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Oakland Launches Nation’s First Cannabis Equity Certification Mark

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2 days ago

April 27, 2026

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In 2017, the city of Oakland made history by becoming the first city in the country to launch a Cannabis Equity Program, which helps those affected by the “War on Drugs” enter the cannabis industry and create thriving local businesses. The program changed policy conversations about cannabis equity in California and across the nation.

Now, in an effort to raise awareness about venture capital and help them survive and thrive, Oakland has launched the nation’s first initiative to promote city-certified venture capital businesses in the cannabis industry. The Oakland Legendary Cannabis Certified Equity Label lets buyers know they support businesses that invest in creating high-quality products by prioritizing equity. The label commemorates the city of Oakland as the birthplace of modern cannabis legalization and highlights its operators as legendary pioneers who define cannabis culture and set standards that are now accepted worldwide. Oakland currently has 50 licensed Equity cannabis businesses.

“Oakland continues to lead with courage and conviction. During my time in Congress, I chaired the Cannabis Caucus and called for cannabis equity programs to address the harm done to Black and Brown communities,” said Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee. “Today, the Oakland Legendary label puts power back where it belongs, helping consumers make informed choices and ensuring that those with the most influence lead and thrive in today’s economy. Oakland is proud to lead the way!”

“The City of Oakland is committed to fostering the economic success of local venture capital companies,” said Ashleigh Kanat, director of Oakland’s Department of Economic and Workforce Development. “The Oakland Legendary brand lets consumers know they’re supporting a certified Oakland stock business and getting a true Oakland experience: premium, authentic and locally produced with a story they won’t find anywhere else. This differentiation will increase the presence of cannabis products in the market.”

“The Oakland Legendary brand is the gold standard for quality,” says Dale Sky Jones, Executive Chancellor of Oakland University. “These are the ones who defined the culture and perfected the craft long before there was a legal market. When you buy Oakland Legendary, you’re not just supporting a local business; you’re getting the world’s most authentic, high-caliber cannabis. These brands are true trendsetters, and once you try them, you’ll understand why Oakland remains the epicenter of the world’s finest cannabis.”

“Root’d believes it is extremely important to highlight the brands of operators who were disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs and educate the consumer on the importance of protecting the equity brands that have shaped the culture and community of cannabis. These core equity brands are the root ecosystem of our culture; the bigger and stronger the roots, the healthier Root’d’s culture McCullough” 510 has a long legacy in the cannabis industry and has been featured on the front page of the New York Times for being one of the first dispensaries in the nation. “It’s important to us that we direct consumers to amazing products and also shop with a purpose.”

Consumers can easily identify Oakland’s legendary certified equity operators through the Oakland Legendary certification mark on packaging, advertisements, and certified equity dealer windows. In a nod to the resilience of the community, the brand’s official positioning is slightly tilted, with the word “Legendary” rising, symbolizing the upward trajectory and sustained growth of Oakland’s capital operators.

The Oakland Legendary awareness campaign includes exclusive use of the certification mark on packaging and marketing materials and “I Hella ♡ Oakland Legendary Cannabis” swag. High-visibility billboards are located along Highway 880 to publicize the program. The public awareness campaign is supported by the National Equity Trade Network.

Source: Oakland