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Senate hearing spotlights push to ban intoxicating hemp products in Montana
Summary
Lawmakers heard competing testimony on Senate Bill 375, which would prohibit sale of hemp products containing THC; proponents stressed youth safety and unregulated market risks while industry speakers urged clearer definitions and protections for the legal cannabis market.
Senate Public Health Committee opened a hearing on Senate Bill 375 on the proposed prohibition of intoxicating hemp products containing delta‑9 THC.
Sponsor Senator Mark Noland urged the committee to pass the bill as a first step to protect Montana residents from an expanding market of unregulated hemp-derived products, saying federal changes after the 2018 Farm Bill created “a flood of products that are nothing less than another form of cannabis, often in candy form, that is made attractive to youth and children with no regulation, no oversight, and a limited capability for our offices to rein them in.”
The bill would ban sale of hemp products that contain THC; proponents said the measure responds to emergency-room visits,…
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