A new law capping the amount of THC included in hemp products could be “a death blow” to businesses like Plift and Emerald Med CBD that use them to create alternatives to alcohol and health supplements for doctor’s offices

Todd Harris started Plift, his Kansas City-based company selling hemp-derived THC beverages, to give people a socially acceptable alternative to alcohol.

Harris himself is an alcoholic in recovery. Now, he’s worried he’ll have to shutter his company — and leave his customers in the lurch — because of a new federal provision limiting the amount of THC allowed in hemp products.

“I don't want someone who struggles with alcoholism to feel like they might have to turn back to alcohol, because something that they found to be a better product or a better solution for them ha

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