A suburban Atlanta county is wrongly seizing hemp-derived THC merchandise and scaring companies away from authorized merchandise, in keeping with an Atlanta regulation agency that’s suing to cease the observe.
The lawsuit asks a state court docket to dam seizures or arrests in Gwinnett County, the place a district lawyer lately wrote a nonbinding opinion that intoxicating hemp merchandise together with delta-8 and delta-10 THC violate Georgia drug regulation.
Legal professional Tom Church instructed Hemp Trade Every day that the interpretation is inaccurate and is chilling enterprise for Georgia hemp producers and retailers.
“These things is bought all through the complete state, principally in vape shops,” he mentioned.
The criticism says that hemp extracts are being bought “overtly and publicly below the affordable perception that Georgia has legalized these merchandise so long as the cannabinoids within the merchandise have been sourced from hemp.”
Church mentioned that a number of companies promoting the intoxicating hemp derivatives have been raided, with at the least one arrest.
His shoppers are vape shops that haven’t been raided however are seeing a lack of enterprise due to the January DA assertion that the hemp merchandise “include managed substances that in some instances are deadly,” in keeping with the Gwinnett Every day Put up.
A listening to within the case had not been set Monday.
