That provision reflects the state government’s position that consumer safety should override all other concerns in establishing laws to guide the hemp sector, sponsoring lawmakers said earlier.
A Virginia boy’s death last year was attributed to over-ingestion of delta-8 THC from eating gummies, leading to felony murder and felony child neglect charges against his mother. The death was officially ruled an accident attributable to “delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol toxicity” by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Central District of Virginia, although some cannabis experts have cast doubt on that conclusion.
Links
[1] https://hemptoday.net/virginia-hemp-stakeholders-say-thc-rules-in-amended-bill-dont-go-far-enough/
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/delta-8
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/death
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/delta-8-children