Lawmakers Cannot Ignore Regulations For Delta 8, A Hemp By-product

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The adults in my immediate family have come to expect a specific stocking stuffer every Christmas: delta-8 gummies .

At some point over the last couple years, my mother found a Wisconsin-based, woman-owned, hemp product company that she loves supporting by buying annual holiday themed packages for us while not having any interest in partaking herself.

The first time my husband received this gift, he was unfamiliar with delta-8. He naively assumed that anything legal in Wisconsin couldn't get you that high. He. Was. Wrong. Thankfully, nothing medically bad happened to him that holiday season but we do joke that he took a trip to Mars.

For about a year, every time he would tell someone that story he would say, "How is something that strong legal in a state that doesn't even allow medical marijuana?"

Only recently did we find out through the Highly Legal investigative series in the Journal Sentinel, that, not only is delta-8 legal here, there hasn't even been a single piece of legislation proposed to regulate it.

Congress legalized the sale of hemp and products extracted from it with the 2018 Farm Bill . The actual levels of THC is very low in hemp, so presumably, the assumption was that this would not be a competitor to the still federally prohibited marijuana plant.

But apparently Congress underestimated the ingenuity of some entrepreneurial spirits, because manufacturers found a way to extract highly potent compounds from hemp. It has since turned into a booming industry .

States are all over the map with how they have decided to handle delta-8. Some have banned it while others have chosen to regulate it. Wisconsin is only one of six states where delta-8 is legal and unregulated.