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“First let me state there’s a question about whether they can legally sell these products. And one thing that we are exploring with the Department of Law is whether, at this moment, my office has authority to issue cease and desist orders to end those sales,” said Joan Wilson, the executive director of the Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office .Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had been an advocate for legalizing hemp so it could be a bigger agricultural product in the U.S.
“The Farm Bill removed industrial hemp from being treated as a schedule 1 drug so it can now be sold commercially and shipped between states. Although currently being evaluated for descheduling, marijuana remains a schedule 1 drug. It can only be sold in Alaska through licensed retail stores and cannot be shipped out of state,” Wilson wrote in an email.
Alaska’s News Source was able to find the hemp gummies with delta-9 and THC in at least two stores in Anchorage — none of the stores were cannabis retail shops.“I’ve been in this business of representing marijuana companies since 2013, I didn’t see this coming,” said Jana Weltzin, an attorney who is also on the state’s marijuana task force.
“It has, in this container, 300 milligrams of THC, delta-9, which is again, same delta-9 for marijuana from hemp. And now that’s 300 times the legal limit that you can buy in a licensed, regulated, marijuana shop,” Weltzin said.Recently AMCO and the State Hemp Plan manager sent a letter to Gov. Mike Dunleavy outlining the problem.
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