COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday issued a 90-day ban on the sale of intoxicating hemp products across Ohio, declaring a consumer state of emergency that he says is necessary to protect children from potentially dangerous, unregulated THC products.

Hemp industry stakeholders and business owners are already pushing back on DeWine’s executive order.

Dakota Sawyer with the think-tank American Republic Policy, who helped organize a press conference at the Statehouse on Wednesday reacting to DeWine's decision, said the ban punishes honest Ohioans who have been in this business for years.

"These people here that represent some of the industry, these people do the right thing,” Sawyer said. “Hemp itself has not killed a single person in the United States, but this executive order

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