“A ban is not going to get us any closer to the solution and it’s really key that we regulate this with intention and care so that we can ultimately expand this industry…but also ensure that products are safe and tested.”įord argued that banning it while trying to decriminalize cannabis and reform the industry would be hypocritical. “This needs to be regulated,” Contos said.
Peter Contos, deputy director of the Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition, said they’ve been pushing for lawmakers to regulate delta-8 for over two years but they’re opposed to banning the substance.
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“It will have a devastating effect on any new license holder who was trying to establish themselves, either from a cultivation craft grow side or from opening up a dispensary.”Īlthoff added that her association will support regulating the substance eventually but wants to ban the drug immediately while regulation measures are finalized. “To allow those types of products to proliferate undermines the cannabis industry,” Althoff said in an interview. Pamela Althoff, executive director of the Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, said she supports a ban because, in addition to its synthetic nature, it could be detrimental to the industry. In 55 percent of those reports, the individual needed some type of medical intervention. While the substance’s legal status remains uncertain, several states have moved to regulate or ban the drug because of safety concerns. The FDA received 104 reports of adverse events in patients who consumed delta-8 THC products between Dec. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that delta-8 is generally legal because is derived from the cannabis plant, classifying it as hemp. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a letter in February saying delta-8 should be considered an illegal controlled substance because it can only be obtained synthetically.īut last year the U.S. In response to a cannabis industry attorney's inquiry about the substance’s legal status, the U.S. On the federal level, the substance’s legal standing is murky. But concerns over the substance’s safety have arisen across the country because it remains unregulated, and consumers of delta-8 have gotten sick after consumption.
Unlike the more well-known form of THC, delta-8 is often derived from CBD and causes a much milder high. Ford said he refused to rewrite the bill to include a ban “without any serious dialogue from the public and from the state regulators.”ĭelta-8, found in small traces of hemp and cannabis plants, is an easily accessible substance that can be purchased in licensed dispensaries but also in convenience stores that otherwise are prohibited from selling cannabis.
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“We need to regulate it, make it safe, make sure that it’s taxed and treat it just like cannabis,” Ford said in an interview.īut advocates for the cannabis industry are pushing for a full ban. La Shawn Ford, a Chicago Democrat and the bill’s sponsor, told Capitol News Illinois last week that Senate Bill 1559 didn’t pass in part due to disagreements around delta-8 THC, a synthetic psychoactive substance typically manufactured from hemp-derived CBD. SPRINGFIELD – A proposed cannabis reform bill won’t get further consideration until at least the General Assembly’s fall veto session after stakeholders failed to come to an agreement during the spring session’s final stretch.
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