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With the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products set to take effect before the end of this year, a company that sells cannabis-infused drinks is inviting customers to “take a stand against prohibition” and buy a round of beverages for their members of Congress. Herb Light’s “Cheers Against Prohibition” campaign, launching on Wednesday, will let customers who are purchasing a 12-pack of THC drinks add a six-pack for their congressional lawmakers. The company says it will handle delivery to lawmakers and will include a letter urging support for a pending bill in Congress to keep hemp THC drinks federally legal under a new system of regulations. Herb Light is also launching a new 1980s-styled ad riffing on President Ronald Reagan’s famed “Morning In America” spot. “It’s morning again in America. Today, more men and women will wake up without hangovers or regrets because they were able to drink a non-alcoholic beverage with a responsible amount of hemp-derived THC last night,” the ad says. “Tomorrow, all that might change because on December 12th, it will be illegal to buy beverages with more than 0.4 milligrams in retailers or online—eliminating an entire industry and hundreds of thousands of jobs.” Sending THC drinks to members of Congress, the spot says, will allow them to “spend tonight enjoying a responsible, non-alcoholic THC beer”—presumably giving them a personal experience that will encourage them to support averting the currently planned prohibition from taking effect. Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that President Donald Trump signed during his first term in office. But late last year, the president signed new legislation containing provisions that redefined hemp to make it so only products with 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container would remain legal after November 12. Now, however, under provisions included in a funding bill Trump signed last month, the effective date of the ban for most products is being pushed back to December 11 to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations for hemp derivatives. There is a carve-out, however, to allow the recriminalization on November 12 of synthetic cannabinoids “that are not capable of being naturally produced by a Cannabis sativa L. plant.” “Most consumers don’t even know there’s a federal ban in the works—much less that it goes into effect in a matter of weeks—so we wanted to call attention to that for the entire category,” Gordy Sang, co-founder of Herb Light, said in a press release. “It’s like we’re doing a prohibition sequel, even when the first prohibition movie was awful. Zero stars.” The company’s press release says it will be “relatively easy” for Herb Light itself to adapt to the new federal restrictions, if they take effect as written. Its drinks currently only contain 1 milligram of THC, whereas other companies’ beverages typically have 5-10 milligrams or more. If the planned policy goes into effect without further changes, Herb Light will begin manufacturing a 0.4 milligram version of its drink to stay compliant. “While it makes sense for a super-low dose beverage like Herb Light to offer an even more super-low dose 0.4 MG version, it doesn’t make as much sense for brands with higher doses,” Jon Schiff, co-founder of Herb Light, said. “Instead of banning it completely and eliminating an entire multi-billion dollar industry that creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and gives adults a safer/healthier beverage alternative to socialize with, just regulate it responsibly.” The company’s buy-THC-drinks-for-lawmakers campaign—which it says will be available nationwide in states that currently allow THC beverages to be purchased—comes as Members of Congress are debating how and whether the crop’s derivatives should be regulated as an alternative to prohibition. Several Republican lawmakers recently spoke to Marijuana Moment about the kinds of rules they would like to see enacted to keep hemp THC products legal. A number of lawmakers from both chambers and both parties have filed or are circulating a growing number of bills to prevent the scheduled federal recriminalization of hemp THC drinks and other products. Until now, none of those proposals have gained traction with congressional leaders. For example, Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) and Greg Landsman (D-OH) filed a bill to keep hemp THC drinks legal while taxing and regulating them like alcohol. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is circulating legislation that would delay a planned federal ban on hemp THC products and institute some regulations—including packaging requirements, testing rules and age limits. Separately, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), filed a lengthier proposal to prevent the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products and put in place a number of regulations for manufacturing, labeling, sales and taxation of hemp-derived products, including an age limit of 21. Trump and White House officials repeatedly pressed Congress to delay, alter or reverse the ban in recent months. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in June, for example, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought said the Trump administration wants lawmakers to “ensure the fair treatment of hemp products”—specifically citing Barr’s earlier amendment to keep many hemp products legal while adding regulations and taxes. The administration “welcomes the opportunity to work with the Congress to, at a minimum, update the statutory definition of final hemp-derived cannabinoid products to allow Americans to benefit from access to appropriate full-spectrum CBD products,” OMB separately said in June, “while preserving the Congress’s intent to restrict the sale of products that pose serious health risks.” Also in April, the president himself urged congressional lawmakers to again redefine hemp to avoid recriminalization of full-spectrum CBD products. “I am calling on Congress to update the Law to ensure that Americans can continue to access the full-spectrum CBD products they have come to rely on, and that help them, while preserving Congress’s intent to restrict the sale of products that pose Health risks,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We must get this done RIGHT and FAST, especially for those who saw that CBD helps them,” he said. “Plus, I am told it will also help our GREAT FARMERS, who we love, and will always be there for.” Some members of the alcohol industry have also urged Congress to regulate, rather than ban, hemp products. The National Restaurant Association recently sent a letter urging congressional leaders to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC beverages and replace it with a regulatory framework that “ensures consumer safety while meeting growing market demand” for the products as an alternative to alcohol. Major retailer Target, meanwhile, recently moved to expand its sales of hemp THC drinks into more states. Meanwhile, the hemp product issue has proved controversial within the cannabis reform movement. The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) last week sent an action alert asking its supporters to pressure Congress to reverse the scheduled ban on hemp THC products and institute a system of regulations for all cannabinoids as an alternative to criminalization. A former MPP staffer who now works for the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH), pushed back in an op-ed for Marijuana Moment, however, arguing that “the charade of hemp intoxicants must end” and that “sneaking in the back door with synthetic drugs nobody asked for is not the path to legalization.” The post Hemp THC Drink Company Lets Customers Buy A 6-Pack For Their Congressional Lawmakers As Federal Prohibition Looms appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

A leading marijuana consumer advocacy organization is urging a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that cannabis industry contracts are not enforceable as long as federal prohibition remains in effect. Last month, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a $31.8 million jury award that Michigan marijuana cultivation company Hello Farms won against subsidiaries of Curaleaf Holdings, Inc., finding that “despite the legalization of marijuana in Michigan, federal courts cannot enforce agreements to commit federal crimes.” Now, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is urging the appeals court to take another look at the dispute and is moving to file an amicus brief in the case. “NORML brings a distinct consumer perspective to this commercial dispute,” the group said in a motion seeking permission to file the friend of the court brief. “The panel’s categorical reliance on federal illegality to foreclose civil remedies threatens commercial accountability in lawful state-regulated cannabis markets and, ultimately, the medical patients and adult-use consumers those markets serve.” The amicus brief itself, which NORML also sent to the court, argues that the court neglected to consider broader public interests in the outcome of the case. “The interest of NORML here is not in protecting a particular company’s profits,” it says. “It is in preserving the civil accountability on which consumers in state-regulated cannabis markets depend. Those consumers include medical patients and adults who lawfully purchase cannabis under state law without medical authorization.” “A regulated cannabis market requires more than issuing licenses. It requires settled, predictable rules on which market participants can rely, and meaningful remedies when contractual obligations are breached. Consumers depend on growers, distributors, and retailers to honor commitments that support reliable supply and product testing for safety. The panel’s categorical rule removes a central means of holding businesses accountable, without asking whether that result advances the federal policy invoked to require it.” The underlying case concerns Hello Farms’s claim that the Curaleaf subsidiaries breached a contract when walking away from a deal to purchase cannabis from the company after market prices fell. A jury initially sided with Hello Farms, but then the appeals court threw out the award due to ongoing federal prohibition. The Sixth Circuit holding “threatens the accountability on which cannabis consumers depend,” NORML’s brief argues, citing the contract in question’s provisions concerning testing cannabis for potency and contaminants. “Consumers depend on enforceable commercial obligations supporting product testing and reliable distribution,” it says. The cannabis consumer group’s brief characterizes its ask of the court as “limited.” “NORML does not ask this Court to compel unlawful performance or immunize anyone from federal enforcement,” it says. “It asks that the Court reject categorical nonenforcement in favor of the statutory and public-interest inquiry its precedents require.” Joseph Bondy, the chair of NORML’s board of directors, told Marijuana Moment that the group is “concerned that this ruling effectively allows cannabis businesses to breach their contracts with impunity, undermining the accountability, consumer access and safety protections on which state-regulated markets depend.” Curaleaf Chairman and CEO Boris Jordan said last month that he was “pleased” with the Sixth Circuit’s ruling, which he characterized as “consistent with the position we’ve maintained throughout. “We remain committed to supporting cannabis reform and continued progress toward legalization,” he said. Read NORML’s motion and brief below: Photo courtesy of Max Pixel. The post NORML Says Federal Prohibition Shouldn’t Make Marijuana Industry Contracts Unenforceable appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

A strong majority of military veterans support legalizing marijuana and other cannabis-related reforms, according to a new survey conducted by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). IAVA’s survey of 47o of its members found that 61 percent want to legalize cannabis for recreational purposes and 87 percent want to allow medical use. Nearly three out of four military veteran respondents said they were aware of the federal rescheduling of medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), and 69 percent are in support of the reform. The poll also showed that 91 percent believe that cannabis should be researched for its medical potential, and 88 percent want the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) itself to allow research into marijuana as a treatment option. The survey additionally found that while 70 percent of respondents said they would be comfortable discussing medical cannabis with their primary care doctor, only 29 percent have actually done so. IAVA’s analysis of the polling results says that the findings “show a consistent pattern,” which is that “respondents were particularly supportive of research and medical applications, and there may be unmet need for clearer information, stronger evidence, and more comfortable provider conversations.” The group said Congress should focus on passing legislation to “prioritize increased federal investment in rigorous, veteran-specific research to better understand the safety, effectiveness, and potential long-term health implications of cannabis-based treatments.” “Research should also examine the relationship between medicinal cannabis use and reliance on other substances, including prescription opioids, benzodiazepines, and alcohol, as well as potential impacts on suicide-related risk factors and overall quality of life,” it said. IAVA cited a specific bill, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act, that would direct VA to carry out studies on the therapeutic potential of marijuana for military veterans with certain conditions. “IAVA supports efforts to strengthen the evidence base through research that considers both potential therapeutic benefits and adverse outcomes, allowing veterans and their health care providers to make more informed decisions about available treatment options,” the group said. Other bills flagged by the group include the the Veterans Equal Access Act, which would allow VA doctors to issue medical cannabis recommendations to their patients, and the Veterans Cannabis Use for Safe Healing Act, which would protect veterans from being denied their federal benefits due to medical marijuana use. “IAVA supports legislative efforts that facilitate transparent, evidence-informed conversations between veterans and their providers, protect continuity of care, and ensure that veterans are not discouraged from disclosing cannabis use or exploring legally available treatment options,” the group said. “These efforts should be accompanied by the development and dissemination of VA-validated, evidence-based clinical resources to help providers discuss the potential benefits, risks, drug interactions, and limitations of medicinal cannabis and other cannabinoids with their veteran patients.” The post Most Military Veterans Support Legalizing Marijuana For Recreational And Medical Use, Poll Shows appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

“This division, at once under- and over-regulated, is not the cannabis and cannabinoid industry that any of us need.” By Adam Smith, Marijuana Policy Project This week, Chris Lindsey, a former Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) staffer and now vice president of the industry association American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH), published an op-ed in Marijuana Moment criticizing MPP for an alert we sent to our followers in support of a federal extension for hemp-derived cannabinoids before a near-total ban takes effect. The bifurcation of hemp and marijuana (they are the same plant, cannabis) is a difficult and problematic issue. And I should note that we agree with a number of the concerns that Chris raises. While I have only been running MPP for a year, I, like the organization, have a 30+ year background in drug and cannabis policy reform. I understand the concerns about poorly regulated products, which the extension legislation does not address, and the potentially deleterious health impacts of synthetics, which the extension legislation does address, if inadequately. I also understand and empathize with the consternation of those on the licensed marijuana business side who are locked into an absurdly restricted system built to accommodate a dying prohibitionist regime, while hemp operators (the good ones) are selling the same molecule with the advantages of far broader retail opportunities, access to banking and card transactions, advantageous tax treatment and interstate commerce. This division, at once under- and over-regulated, is not the cannabis and cannabinoid industry that any of us need. As a policy guy, I am also quite aware of—and share—the concern that the longer-term normalization of the hemp-derived market will tend to incentivize many hemp businesses to fight against the broader legalization of the cannabis plant, just as the current absurdly restrictive marijuana system incentivizes licensed businesses to fight against the normalization of hemp-derived products. MPP remains, as we have been for 30 years, 100 percent committed to descheduling the plant and its naturally occurring extracts at the federal level, and to legalizing both personal possession and regulated markets in the states. We believe that THC and other naturally occurring cannabinoids should be regulated and made available to adults under a single, consistent set of rules, including meaningful testing, truthful labeling and strict age-gating. We also believe that low-dose drinks and edibles should be legally available to adults anywhere beer or wine are sold or served. We know that the current level of regulation on the hemp side is inadequate, just like the regulatory schemes on the marijuana side are absurdly overbearing. Given that, and the other issues I’ve outlined, supporting the hemp extension—even if only by sending out an email alert—was not a slam dunk for us. But several factors contributed to our decision. MPP has over 300,000 people on our email list, tens of thousands of whom live in states where hemp-derived products are their only legal alternative. We hear from those people, and under-regulated or not, they overwhelmingly do not want to go back to their illicit dealers. "This division, at once under- and over-regulated, is not the cannabis and cannabinoid industry that any of us need." Adam J. Smith, MPP's Executive Director https://t.co/gT29vhqEyZ — Marijuana Policy Project (@MarijuanaPolicy) October 19, 2026 Further, we are committed to ending arrests for THC possession. Between 2017 and 2025, as hemp-derived cannabinoids became available in stores, annual cannabis arrests in Texas fell from 64,826 to 28,753. Florida arrests fell from 42,153 to 6,104. Annual arrests in Tennessee went from 19,899 down to 11,117 and in North Carolina from 18,390 to 11,434 per year. Those are real people and real lives, and the answer cannot be a return to full prohibition and skyrocketing arrests and imprisonment in those states. Further, as Chris mentions, the Marijuana Policy Project has led—and, I should add, raised and provided the funding for—well over two dozen successful state medical and adult-use legalization campaigns, both legislatively and through voter initiatives. Our work, and the work of other advocates, is the foundation upon which the legal industry was created, exists, and continues to expand. Nevertheless, more than 95 percent of the funding for that work came not from the industry (even once a legal industry emerged), but from philanthropists and donors who cared deeply about freedom, human rights, medical access and the broad legal availability of the plant they loved, with zero financial interest in the outcome. Many of those philanthropists—heroes, really—like Peter Lewis, John Sperling and Tom Forcade, who collectively took tens of millions of dollars out of their own pockets to launch and sustain one of the most successful social movements in our nation’s history, have passed away. Others, seeing the emergence of a multi-billion-dollar industry with a financial interest in finishing the job, have moved on to other causes. And yet still today, less than 10 percent of MPP’s current budget comes from industry, and less than 5 percent from licensees themselves. We understand that times are tough for the industry, and that it’s hard to justify any expenditure that doesn’t absolutely have to be made. But with MPP’s long record of success, as our entire mission overlaps with the industry’s main political objective, the fact remains that much of the industry that we’ve laid the foundation for has never supported MPP or other serious advocacy efforts, even minimally as a show of good faith. This is not about owing anything to the movement for what has been accomplished historically. This is about understanding why the movement has been so successful, and the power inherent in advocacy that comes not from a business perspective, but from a desire for public policy that serves the public good. But that advocacy requires resources, and unlike the business community, the resources to fuel our work must come from outside our organizations. Without that support, none of this would have happened, and will not happen going forward. This all makes the public criticism of one MPP alert—from an organization that includes so many industry leaders we sincerely regard as friends and colleagues—frankly a little hard to swallow. This month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released numbers showing dramatic (remarkable, really) declines in teen use in legal states, even as cannabis arrests in those states have fallen by an average of more than 85 percent. Separate National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) data shows a near 50 percent reduction in teen access to cannabis nationwide since legalization began. The government data shows what advocates have argued for 30+ years—that smart regulation is safer for consumers, and communities, and kids than prohibition. And that personal freedom for adults is good public policy for everyone, in addition to driving jobs and revenues. MPP is planning a multi-year effort—specifically in the largest non-adult-use states—to bring together parents’ groups, child advocacy and public health organizations and others behind this data to demand that state legislators and governors do the responsible thing: legalize and regulate cannabis as cannabis, and put it behind the counter where adults, and only adults, can get it. We believe that our history, our relationships, and our position as independent advocates without profit incentives puts us in the best position to leverage the good news on kids’ access and use to gather and lead coalitions in those states, and to pull those coalitions together to demand descheduling at the federal level going forward. I hope the industry will be a key partner in this strategy. Investing in this effort could create far greater opportunities through market expansion and full legalization of the plant than either side stands to gain from the current fight over hemp. We would welcome a conversation with ATACH’s leadership and any or all of its interested members to discuss how we can work together in 2027 and beyond to reinvigorate public engagement in this issue and movement, counter the fear-mongering of the neo-prohibitionists and end cannabis prohibition everywhere in this country, once and for all. Adam Smith is executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. The post A Return To Criminalization Is Not The Solution To Unfair Rules Differences Between Hemp And Marijuana (Op-Ed) appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

KY gov touts medical marijuana growth; NC poll: Bipartisan legal cannabis support; FL hemp drinks op-ed; Secret DEA agreement with psychedelic church Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Get our daily newsletter. Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you value Marijuana Moment, invest in our success on Patreon so we can expand our coverage and more readers can benefit: https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment / TOP THINGS TO KNOW Dozens of Massachusetts lawmakers—including the House speaker and Senate president—are urging voters to reject an initiative to roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law on the November ballot. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced that medical cannabis dispensaries are now open and operating in every geographic region of the state. A new poll of North Carolina adults shows that 63 percent support legalizing recreational marijuana and 74 percent back medical cannabis—including majority support for both reforms from Republicans, Democrats and independents. The Florida Hemp Beverage Coalition’s Dani Baranowski argues in a new Marijuana Moment op-ed that Florida lawmakers should enact effective regulations for hemp THC drinks and set an example for the rest of the country. “Florida doesn’t need to wait for Washington to show what responsible regulation looks like.” Tree House Craft Cannabis’s Wes Ritchie—who has operated both marijuana and alcohol businesses—argues in a new op-ed that “cannabis is safer than alcohol yet still regulated more strictly.” “Before a cannabis product ever reaches a store shelf, from seed to sale, there is a statewide inventory system that follows every plant on its journey with continuous state oversight… None of that exists in the alcohol industry.” An Iowa psychedelic church reached a secret agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration and got approval from the Iowa Board of Pharmacy to import and manufacture ayahuasca. / FEDERAL The Congressional Research Service published a report on classwide scheduling of controlled substances. 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Every gram is accounted for. None of that exists in the alcohol industry. No one is testing every bottle of wine or whiskey for contaminants before it reaches consumers. Beer isn’t quarantined pending laboratory approval before distribution. Every individual bottle isn’t tracked through a state inventory system from planting to production through retail sale. But cannabis is. Can anyone in the alcohol industry tell me about the soil quality of the California grapes that make up their favorite Blanc de Bleu sparkling wine? Or better yet, what even makes it blue? Cannabis businesses are required to report this information. That doesn’t even account for the rigorous process we undergo as operators. For me to become a cannabis operator, I had to go through an extensive process that began with comprehensive background investigations before even receiving a license. Our employees undergo the same background checks before they are badged to enter and work at a cannabis facility. Our facilities are built to exacting security specifications that include 24-hour surveillance, restricted access, alarm systems, alarm monitoring, secure transportation requirements and detailed operating procedures that regulators can inspect at any time. The compliance burden doesn’t end once we receive our license. Licensed cannabis retailers are required to verify identification before every purchase, regardless of a customer’s apparent age. Employees receive mandatory training. We maintain thousands of pages of records and terabytes of video archives. We report every unusual incident to regulators. Surveillance cameras record every transaction. Our strict 21+ retail rules don’t even let parents bring their kids into our stores when they swing by to pick up a to-go order. Kids can run free around package stores. Could enforcement continue to improve? Sure. It’s a new industry. The industry continues to improve every year with changes to both the statute and regulations. Like every regulator, the Cannabis Control Commission should continually evaluate inspection practices, compliance strategies and enforcement priorities. The Legislature recently took important steps to strengthen the agency’s governance, and industry operators welcome improvements that are consistent, transparent and effective. Standardization and clarification of enforcement have already taken center stage with the appointment of new commissioners to oversee the industry. Strong regulation protects responsible businesses as much as it protects consumers. Ironically, one of the greatest public safety successes of legalization is often overlooked: legal cannabis is displacing a market that has no age verification, no product testing, no labeling standards, no contaminant screening and no regulatory oversight whatsoever. Unlike the illicit market, licensed businesses have every incentive to follow the rules because the consequences for failing to do so are severe. 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“The parties agree that maintaining the memorandum of agreement under seal is necessary to protect important public and privacy interests.” By Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch After years of litigation over its nonprofit status and use of a hallucinogenic controlled substance, an Iowa-based church is one step closer to being able to import the drug. The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has agreed to award the Iowaska Church of Healing the state certification that is needed to clear the way for the issuance of federal certificates to not only import a controlled substance, but also to manufacture from it a tea that is to be used in religious ceremonies. State records indicate the church was formed in Iowa in September 2018 and is run by Admir Dado Kantarevic and by Shaman BaBa DaDo, the latter of whom the church describes as “an internationally renowned healer and clairvoyant.” For a time, the church’s official headquarters was Kantarevic’s former home in Des Moines. Iowaska’s teachings are built around the use of ayahuasca, a tea that is brewed from the leaves of shrubs and vines found in the Amazon. The church has acknowledged that under the federal Controlled Substances Act, an ingredient of ayahuasca called dimethyltryptamine or DMT, is a Schedule I drug and a hallucinogenic alkaloid, and that there is no statutory exemption allowing for its use in religious ceremonies. Church fights IRS and DEA in court In January 2019, Iowaska filed an application with the IRS seeking tax-exempt status and was denied because, in the IRS’s view, the church’s use of the Sacrament of Ayahuasca in its religious practices was illegal. In 2021, the church sued the IRS in U.S. District Court, challenging the federal agency’s decision. In court papers, the church argued the IRS was violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 and noted that the church’s mission was “to help individuals attain healing of the mind, body and spirit through the sacred Sacrament of Ayahuasca under the guidelines of North and South American indigenous traditions and cultural values. Ayahuasca is consumed in the form of a tea during religious ceremonies.” At the same time, the church was asking the federal Drug Enforcement Administration for a religious exemption from the federal Controlled Substances Act. In court, the church argued the DEA never responded to its request, which then resulted in the IRS refusing to grant nonprofit status. In March 2023, a federal judge at the district court level ruled in favor of the IRS and dismissed the church’s lawsuit. The church, the court noted, “has had as many as 20 members living in different states and foreign countries, and generally holds its ceremonies on weekends, with members staying in frequent contact with ‘healers’ to help guide them through their daily struggles.” Organizations may be denied tax-exempt status if their activities violate public policy, the court ruled, adding the church’s activities violated public policy in that the use of ayahuasca remained illegal under the federal law for which the DEA had yet to grant an exemption. In the meantime, the church continued to seek that exemption from the DEA. Earlier this year, the church went to federal court and argued the DEA and federal government had failed to discharge their duties for more than five years, thereby imposing a “clearly unjustified prior restraint on religion.” Lawyers for the DEA argued the government “continues to act diligently in reviewing Iowaska’s request for an exemption,” but acknowledged its lack of a decision in the matter. Confidential agreement reached with DEA In June 2026, lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice informed the court that the DEA and the Iowaska Church of Healing had settled their differences and signed a “memorandum of agreement” on the church’s request for a religious exemption to the Controlled Substances Act. The DEA and the church then filed a joint motion to provide the court with a copy of their agreement only under seal, making the contents of the agreement inaccessible to the public. “The parties agree that maintaining the memorandum of agreement under seal is necessary to protect important public and privacy interests,” lawyers for the DEA and the church told the court. The agreement, they said, contained confidential information such as “personal identifying information” of church members, the names of individuals responsible for handling the controlled substances, security measures for storing the controlled substances and the manner in which the controlled substances were to be imported to the United States for the church’s use. The agreement, they said, recognized the church’s “right under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to practice its Sacrament of Ayahuasca, subject to agreed conditions.” That agreement, they said, resolved only the first stage of the DEA’s two-step process for obtaining a religious exemption to the Controlled Substances Act. Step two, they said, involved the Iowa Board of Pharmacy awarding the church an Iowa Certificate of Registration, after which the DEA would “expeditiously” process the necessary exemption, registrations and permits. On October 5, 2026, the Board of Pharmacy agreed to provide the church the certificate of registration. In its order, the board stated the confidential agreement between the DEA and the church “effectively grants” the church a federal certificate to not only import “concentrated paste of ayahuasca,” but also a federal certificate to manufacture, in bulk, the ayahuasca tea used in ceremonies. According to Board of Pharmacy records, the board-issued state certification will be placed on probationary status for one year. In addition, the church will be required to report to the board any “adverse events that occur with any participant in [the church’s] religious ceremonies using ayahuasca” if those events require some sort of off-site medical intervention. This story was first published by Iowa Capital Dispatch. Photo courtesy of Apollo. The post Psychedelic Church’s Secret Agreement With DEA And Approval From Iowa Officials Allows Import And Manufacturing Of Ayahuasca appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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“Florida doesn’t need to wait for Washington to show what responsible regulation looks like.” By Dani Baranowski, Florida Hemp Beverage Coalition In Umatilla, Florida, my grandmother’s friends unwind over a game of spades with a low-dose THC drink in hand. My friends in their thirties are reaching for the same drinks for different reasons. Some are cutting back on alcohol, and some have quit booze entirely but still want to go out and have a good time. They’re not alone. From The Villages to Tampa Bay to Miami, Florida adults are picking up hemp beverages at neighborhood stores, restaurants and bars, under the legal framework state legislators put in place in 2019. NielsenIQ found that 28 percent of U.S. adults have tried a cannabis-infused drink, and 50 percent say they’re interested in trying one. Whatever their reasons, all of them should be free to choose these drinks when they meet the state’s testing and labeling rules, and are held to Florida’s safety standards. What most of them don’t know is that Washington is about to take that choice away. In November of last year, Congress rewrote the federal definition of hemp inside a spending bill. Starting on December 11, any finished hemp-derived products with more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container will no longer count as legal hemp. Even a drink containing two to five milligrams would exceed that limit. That’s a ban on nearly the entire category—not just a crackdown on bad products. Part of the issue is who lawmakers are hearing from. They aren’t hearing from older adults who make up the fastest growing demographic of new THC consumers. They’re hearing about the worst players in the market, and those concerns are fair. Chemically synthesized cannabinoids, high-potency products, cartoon packaging and stores that never check ID are real problems. Products designed to appeal to kids have no place in this market, and businesses that ignore the rules shouldn’t be allowed to operate in Florida—period. But you don’t fix bad actors by punishing everyone who plays by the rules. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made the same point in 2024, when he vetoed a state hemp crackdown he said would impose “debilitating regulatory burdens on small businesses.” The economic stakes are serious, and few states have more on the line than Florida. Whitney Economics’s 2026 analysis models Florida’s broader hemp market, of which beverages are one part, at about $4 billion a year, second only to Texas. It estimates roughly 39,000 Florida jobs across nearly 5,800 businesses, from farms and manufacturers to distributors and more than 4,600 retailers. Nationally, the analysis projects the federal restrictions could wipe out $28.3 billion in retail sales. In St. Petersburg, small business owners Caitlyn and Michael Smith built Herban Flow, a shop for those looking for alcohol alternatives, with hemp THC making up roughly 80 percent of their sales. They have announced one store closing and their downtown location to follow. On the supplier side, I have friends who have lost their jobs and livelihoods. Distributors, bars, restaurants and small brands are making tough decisions right now with no idea what the rules will be in a few weeks. Florida can’t fix the federal problem alone. Our congressional delegation should push for a federal framework that keeps low-dose hemp beverages legal with strong consumer protections. But Florida doesn’t need to wait for Washington to show what responsible regulation looks like. No state is better positioned to lead. We have one of the country’s biggest hospitality and tourism economies. 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Banning something adults want has never made demand disappear. If legitimate Florida businesses are pushed out, people may buy untested products potentially from other countries or illicit markets, from sellers with no labels, no ID checks and no one accountable. That’s why Natalie Kato and I founded the Florida Hemp Beverage Coalition: to give the responsible businesses, hospitality operators, distributors and consumers in this category one voice. Our goal is a Florida-first framework for hemp beverages that other states can follow. It’s also why I created Highspitality, an online certification that trains bars and restaurants to serve THC beverages responsibly. Florida has a chance to write the rules other states copy: rules that protect kids, hold businesses accountable and trust adults to make their own choices. Floridians don’t need Washington deciding what we drink. We need clear, enforceable standards and leaders in Tallahassee and Congress willing to stand up for us. Dani Baranowski is executive director of the Florida Hemp Beverage Coalition. She is head of sales at Lorea, a female-led, Florida based hemp beverage company, and creator of Highspitality, THC Safe Service Training for bars and restaurants. The post Florida Should Regulate Hemp THC Drinks To Show The Rest Of The Country That Legalization Is Better Than Prohibition (Op-Ed) appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net