Three businesses affiliated with the hemp industry have sued Gov. Mike DeWine over his announced short-term ban of hemp products with psychoactive ingredients, like delta-8 THC and THC-A.

In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, the retailers argue DeWine acted outside his authorities as governor, according to documents obtained by the Statehouse News Bureau.

“It is statutory law that products containing ‘hemp’ and ‘hemp products’ are not adulterated,” the lawsuit reads. “Yet, (Gov.) DeWine’s basis for invoking emergency is that these products are adulterated.”

DeWine signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon that both seeks to redefine hemp, by excluding “intoxicating hemp” from the Ohio Revised Code’s definition of hemp, and declares an adulter

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