Michigan is backing off a plan to allow hemp-derived THC products to be sold alongside marijuana products after the state’s cannabis industry complained it could not compete with lower-cost hemp THC.
Michigan regulators withdrew the proposal after complaints about “safety concerns and the lack of scientific and public health data related to the conversion process,” according to a statement provided to MLive.com.
An attorney for the Cannabis Business Association of Michigan, a trade association for marijuana operators, said that Michigan MJ companies could not have competed with out-of-state hemp operators making lower-cost THC products.
“Of course, there’s a business component to it,” attorney Denise Policella told MLive.com about the group’s opposition.
She argued that Michigan marijuana companies could not have competed with out-of-state hemp operators making lower-cost THC products.
“The industrial hemp portion of this was never going to come from Michigan,” she said.
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