Lawmakers Vote Down A Second Bill To Regulate Intoxicating Hemp Products In Missouri
The committee voted down the measure 5-7 on March 13
A second proposal backed by Missouri’s hemp industry to regulate products like hemp-THC seltzers and edibles was defeated in a House committee Thursday morning, after the hemp-beverage distributor who helped draft the bill emailed committee members that morning asking them to kill it.
The 5-7 vote in the House General Laws committee came after Republican state Rep. Dave Hinman of O’Fallon, the bill sponsor, spent hours last week trying to come up with a compromise among the splintered hemp industry leaders on regulations.
The same committee voted down a bill backed by the Missouri Hemp Trade Association last week in a 1-13 vote.
After that defeat, Hinman incorporated a number of the hemp association’s requests into an amended version of his bill, which he presented Thursday. State Rep. Ben Keathley of Chesterfield, the chair of the committee, applauded Hinman’s attempt to bring the hemp leaders together.
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