{"id":80906,"date":"2025-04-16T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/indiana-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-regulate-hemp-products\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:46:28","slug":"indiana-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-regulate-hemp-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/indiana-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-regulate-hemp-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Lawmakers Approve Bill To Regulate Hemp Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The bill is \u201cmoving us further down a path of increasing\u2014dramatically increasing\u2014access to these products that are known to have adverse and negative effects.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

By Leslie Bonilla Mu\u00f1iz, Indiana Capital Chronicle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contentious regulations for marijuana-like products advanced through the Indiana House of Representatives on Tuesday, but will have to survive closed-door negotiations before crossing Gov. Mike Braun\u2019s (R) desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI filed a dissent,\u201d Sen. Travis Holdman, the measure\u2019s author, told the Capital Chronicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some clean-up to do,\u201d the Markle Republican said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Products with legally low concentrations of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol have proliferated in Indiana, alongside those containing delta-8 THC and other isomers. Attempts to regulate the nascent industry, which is booming on shaky legal footing, have\u00a0failed repeatedly\u2014but are nearing law, in the form of\u00a0Senate Bill 478.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese products, being legal under federal law, but having no regulatory structure here in the state, means that technically, it\u2019s not illegal to sell these products to minors [or] to target youth with advertising or packaging, and that there\u2019s no testing requirements to protect consumers from potentially dangerous adulterants,\u201d said Rep. Jake Teshka, the House sponsor, on the chamber\u2019s floor Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The measure sets out advertising, age-limit, licensing, packaging, testing and other requirements over the currently unregulated substances. It authorizes the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to oversee the industry, including approving up to 20,000 retail permits.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers have put it through a whopping seven rounds of edits. But critics\u2014including Indiana\u2019s attorney general\u00a0and\u00a0anti-marijuana groups\u2014still have objected, arguing the language would expand existing loopholes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Senate Bill 478, I think we finally have an opportunity to rein in this market,\u201d Teshka, R-North Liberty, said. \u201cWe have the opportunity to provide real clarity to law enforcement, to protect Hoosier youth, to empower our farmers and to protect our consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of Teshka\u2019s own caucus remained skeptical.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recognize that\u2026the General Assembly should take action on the current state of this product,\u201d said Rep. Tim Wesco, R-Osceola. \u201c[But] I don\u2019t feel like this is the appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, it\u2019s \u201cmoving us further down a path of increasing\u2014dramatically increasing\u2014access to these products that are known to have adverse and negative effects,\u201d Wesco continued. \u201cWe\u2019re setting up a framework that we\u2019re likely not going to go back on, that is just going to expand from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both parties crossed sides in the\u00a060-37\u00a0vote.<\/p>\n

The bill<\/a> next heads to conference committee for negotiations. Conferees will hammer out a compromise. If it survives that process, it\u2019ll head back to each chamber for a final vote before going to Braun.<\/p>\n

This story was first published by Indiana Capital Chronicle.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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