Regulators in #Michigan announced that a plan to allow #cannabinoids derived from #hemp to be processed into #THC would be withdrawn from consideration. The announcement came only two days after the Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) was renamed and given new authority over the state’s hemp industry under an executive order issued by #Governor Gretchen Witmer earlier this year.
Under proposed rules announced by the MRA in #January, hemp growers would have been permitted to sell their crops to licensed #cannabis #processors, who would then use a laboratory process to convert cannabinoids such as #CBD into THC. The agency, now named the Cannabis Regulatory Agency, announced that the plan would not be approved. “After receiving a significant amount of public comment regarding safety concerns and the lack of scientific and #public #health #data related to the #conversion process outlined in the proposed industrial hemp rules … the Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) has withdrawn this request for rulemaking,”.
The plan would have given Michigan’s hemp #farmers a new outlet for their #crop, opening the state’s regulated cannabis market to products containing hemp-derived THC. But the proposal would also have created a more competitive marketplace for licensed #pot #growers, who face more stringent and expensive regulations than hemp farmers. The Michigan Department of #Agriculture and #Rural Development will continue to oversee hemp cultivation in the state.

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