CLEVELAND – Some recent court decisions have left advocates for policies restricting the sale and availability of intoxicating hemp products encouraged that legislation could be passed in Ohio sooner rather than later — including every stakeholder in the state’s licensed marijuana industry.

Key among those cases, as well as the most recent, is Bio Gen LLC v. Sanders.

Per a ruling on that lawsuit this summer, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by makers and sellers of hemp-derived products in Arkansas that the state lacked authority to regulate the sale of those products within its boundaries, vacating a preliminary injunction approved by a lower court, Crain’s Cleveland Business reports.

That result follows similar rulings from the Fourth Circuit and Seventh Circuit c

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