A court order blocking Indiana’s prohibition on smokable hemp was overly broad, because federal law authorizes the state to regulate industrial hemp excluding its transit through the state, the Seventh Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Indiana-based hemp sellers and wholesalers sued the state and its governor, seeking to enjoin enforcement of a law that legalized the commercial production of hemp but criminalized possession of smokable hemp, which it defined as any industrial hemp product in a form that allows THC to be introduced into the body by inhalation of smoke.
A district court broadly enjoined portions of the law that criminalized manufacturing,…
