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On Four20 Post May 26,  five cannabis professionals debated the pros and cons of delta-8 THC. Guests included iHemp President David Crabill, Helping Friendly Salve CEO Rob Robar,  and Hemp Oil Distro CEO Tom Wasilewski. Joining the debate were Four20 Post Co-Hosts Rick Thompson and Jamie Cooper. The debate will be moderated by Mike Brennan, Editor of Michigan Marijuana Report.

What spurred the examination of delta-8 is group of the state’s largest cannabis companies are lobbying the Michigan state legislature to regulate delta-8, manufactured from legal hemp, in the same way Delta-9 THC is grown by association members.

The Michigan Cannabis Manufacturers Association Executive Director Stephen Linder testified before the Michigan House asking these elected officials to vote for two House Bills 4740-4745 and House Bill 4517 that would join a chorus of other states seeking to regulate the sale of delta-8, which mimics the high achieved through delta-9 THC sold by Linder’s companies.

Association members include Common Citizen, Green Peak Innovations, High Life Farms, LivWell, Pleasantrees and Fluresh. Collectively, Linder said, the state’s largest growers, processors and vertically integrated businesses representing close to $1 billion of investment. He called them the “General Motors, Fords and Chryslers of the cannabis industry.”

In his House testimony, Linder said: “Delta-8 products and other similar products are intoxicants, and our position is that anything that mimics a cannabis high must be regulated, whether it comes from the refinement of hemp distillate, the refinement of cannabis distillate, or products created without organic material in a lab.

Mr. Linder has been invited several times to debate, but has not responded through his public relations agency.

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