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Senate committee advances bill to treat intoxicating hemp like regulated cannabis; supporters and opponents clash over budget and enforcement
Summary
AB 8 would prohibit intoxicating hemp products from being sold outside licensed cannabis channels, expand enforcement powers, and align hemp-derived intoxicants with the cannabis regulatory and tax system.
Assemblymember Aguiar Curry presented AB 8 to the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee as legislation to close loopholes that allow intoxicating hemp products to be sold outside the licensed cannabis supply chain. The author said the bill would expand enforcement authority, ban all synthetic THC, and require products with any level of THC to be treated as cannabis — subject to registration, regulation and taxation.
“Today, I'm here to make sure that the law can be properly enforced and interpreted,” Assemblymember Aguiar Curry told the committee. In describing the bill she said it focuses on…
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