Utah has outlawed smokable hemp and CBD in meals underneath a brand new regulation that additionally punts oversight of the plant’s manufacturing to the U.S. Division of Agriculture.
The regulation, signed by Gov. Spencer Cox Monday, makes Utah the sixth state to defer to federal authorities on regulating hemp cultivation.
The regulation additionally makes it a criminal offense to develop, course of or possess smokable hemp and so as to add hemp to “a standard meals or beverage.”
The regulation doesn’t ban delta-8 THC.
The truth is, it defines artificial cannabinoids to say they don’t embrace “any cannabinoid that has been deliberately created utilizing a course of to transform one cannabinoid to a different,” as is commonly the case with delta-8 THC manufacturing.
The Utah Division of Agriculture and Meals will proceed oversight of licensed hemp processors.
The company can be charged with developing with guidelines for manufacturing cannabinoid merchandise, although the regulation says that cannabinoid regulators “could not prohibit a sugar coating on a cannabinoid product to masks the product’s style.”
Final 12 months, Utah licensed some 128 hemp growers on 1,566 acres and 255,342 indoor sq. ft. The state licensed 97 hemp processors.
