Missouri is banning the sale of drinks, candy and other foods made with hemp-derived intoxicating substances. Republican Gov.

Missouri is banning the sale of drinks, candy and other foods made with hemp-derived intoxicating substances, Republican Gov. Mike Parson announced in an an executive order issued Thursday.

The ban kicks in Sept. 1.

Parson cited health concerns and lack of research on Delta-8 THC and similar unregulated CBD substances.

He also made clear that his order does not prohibit consumption of psychoactive hemp products. The rules “are not here to punish consumers,” Parson said.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
    168·
    3 months ago

    I agree with the delta-8 ban. Can’t have the natural thing, but let’s breathe this chemical we made in the lab and spray on ditch weed.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
        111·
        3 months ago

        Then they really should be banning the lab stuff. No need for it to exist except to line some chemical company’s pockets.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      113·
      3 months ago

      I’m puffing a vape as I scroll because I believe it to be better than smoking a cigarette. Lab-made does not necessarily equal poison.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
        413·
        3 months ago

        popcorn lung Diacetyl can be an ingredient in vapes. Hope you are being mindful of that. Natural doesn’t mean better for you. But few things are good to use daily.

        • Perfide@reddthat.com
          10·
          3 months ago

          Diacetyl hasn’t been used in any reputable vape juice brand in like a decade(and is banned in EU), and there’s also absolutely no evidence that the juices that did contained enough to cause popcorn lung. There’s a reason it’s called popcorn lung, because the most likely person to get it is one who works in a popcorn factory and is exposed to industrial quantities of Diacetyl, day after day for likely 10-12 hour shifts. The difference in dosage is astronomical. If you’ve ever worked in a kitchen, you’ll know how grease vapors in the air will absolutely coat you in a film of yuck. Imagine that same idea but instead of grease it’s Diacetyl coating everyone and everything in the factory.

          • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            I don’t vape, so I have no clue about the safety that is claimed from atomizing substances. Thank you for informing me about how diacetyl has been pulled from most vapes, shows you how old my information is.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 months ago

      It’s not a synthetic cannabinoid…Delta-8 is typically extracted from hemp plants.

      There are also legitimate reasons to prefer D8, even in a legal state. For example, some people prefer it’s much more mild effect relative to normal cannabis.

      But I do agree with not consuming products that spray it on direct combustibles and the need to have proper government regulations for product safety and testing enforcement.

      • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 months ago

        I enjoyed delta8 because I’m a lightweight these days and weed is strong as fuck these days. I’m more into the THCA now though.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 months ago

        Delta-8 wiki it is found in the plant naturally, but in very small doses. They were able to fully synthesize it in the 2010s I think, and they don’t breed hemp plants to produce it, they spray a concoction of lab produced delta-8 and “natural binders” to cbd hemp. At least, that’s what all the delta-8 is around here.