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Illinois lawmakers call for ban on intoxicating hemp products, but retailers call for regulations

Tiffany Chappell Ingram, executive director of the Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, holds a bag of Fritos and a THC product that mimics the packaging, on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, as Cannabiz IL and state legislators present bipartisan legislation regulating hemp consumer products and prohibiting...

Illinois lawmakers joined the licensed cannabis industry Thursday in calling for a ban on intoxicating hemp products such as Delta-8-THC, a move retailers of such substances said would put them out of business.

The Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, which represents large licensed marijuana companies, called for allowing regulated sales of non-intoxicating hemp products such as CBD, but until a committee can recommend how to proceed.

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