“These are being sold right now, without any regulation, without any oversight,” said Democratic Sen.
With about two weeks left in the legislative session, Keiser and Republican Mark Schoesler introduced a measure Friday to ban the products both within Washington’s legal cannabis industry and outside it.
Washington lawmakers are making a last-ditch attempt to block intoxicating, synthetically derived cannabis products, including gummy candies and vape oil, from being sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops after earlier bills failed.
THC is marijuana’s most prominent high-inducing component.
Both sides want to stop the sale of intoxicating delta-8 or other synthetic cannabinoids at gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops.
The debate has roiled Washington’s cannabis industry since last spring, when outdoor growers who produce marijuana for the extract market realized they were being undercut.
The board eventually did so, seizing more than 1,600 pounds of products made by a prominent CannaBusiness Association member, Unicorn Brands, a licensed cannabis processor in Raymond.
Unicorn’s owner, Peter Saladino, is a founder of the CannaBusiness Association.
The board shouldn’t be stifling innovation or picking winners and losers in the market, said Vicki Christophersen, the CannaBusiness Association’s lobbyist.
That bill, which Postman viewed as retribution, failed.