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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what's going on with the Indiana legislators.

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Speaker 1: They want to align the state law with the new

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Speaker 1: federal ban on hemp. So pretty much they're saying, we

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Speaker 1: don't want hemp here in Indiana. Products like Delta eight

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Speaker 1: and other THHC variants spread through. It kind of got

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Speaker 1: through a loophole in a twenty eighteen federal farm bill.

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Speaker 1: But now there's a new bill sponsored by Senator Aaron Freeman.

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Speaker 1: He introduced Senate Bill to fifty, saying the bill is

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Speaker 1: a compromise, not his ideal solution, but they don't want

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Speaker 1: hemp here in Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So here's here's the context of this. Obviously, marijuana

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Speaker 2: has been banned by the federal government most states for

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Speaker 2: a long long time. But what scientists and people have

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Speaker 2: done is and when you write a law, you've got

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Speaker 2: to be real specific. You got to be real specific

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Speaker 2: when you write a law. So the law has always been,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, this specific version of THC and

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm, you know, the farthest thing from a marijuana

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Speaker 2: or THHC expert. But as I understand it, there's this

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Speaker 2: you know, the typical THHC that you get out of

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Speaker 2: typical marijuana. Well, people in scientists have been able to

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Speaker 2: create derivatives that avoid the law. It's like kind of

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Speaker 2: finding a loophole. And so that's why you'll see, you know,

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Speaker 2: you drive by some gas stations or some smoke shops

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Speaker 2: and you'll see a sign out sign that talks about

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Speaker 2: Delta eight and Delta nine and Delta ten. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what any of those things mean, but some of

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Speaker 2: them are essentially like marijuana light, kind of like light beer,

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Speaker 2: but marijuana light. And they have kind of found a

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Speaker 2: loophole in state law that allows them to be sold

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Speaker 2: to the public. Now, federal law cracked down on them,

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Speaker 2: like you talked about a few years ago, but from

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Speaker 2: a state perspective, the law hasn't changed. This is what

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Speaker 2: lawmakers are trying to do. They're trying to ban essentially

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Speaker 2: that marijuana light that has been available in a lot

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Speaker 2: of places publicly for a lot of years and trying

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Speaker 2: to get that out of there.

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Speaker 1: Some key points to this bill there's an age requirement

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Speaker 1: twenty one in over. They also want to put the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to regulate the industry, and

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Speaker 1: no sales within one thousand feet of schools, playgrounds are

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Speaker 1: similar areas no online sales deliveries or on site consumption.

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Speaker 1: And they also want to put some advertising restrictions on it.

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Speaker 1: And the cost, yes, of course there's a cost to

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Speaker 1: this bill, a cost to you the taxpayers, yes, and

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Speaker 1: to you to enforce this law if it does go

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Speaker 1: into effect, will cost about five hundred thousand dollars per year.

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Speaker 2: Why has it always seemed like the State of Indiana

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Speaker 2: so behind the times when it comes to things? Remember

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Speaker 2: how long did we have to fight for alcohol sales

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Speaker 2: on Sunday in this state? How long did we have

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Speaker 2: to do that? How long have people been talking about

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Speaker 2: trying to bring medical marijuana into the state when we

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Speaker 2: are surrounded literally every state that borders the state of

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Speaker 2: Indiana has at the very least medical marijuana available, some

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Speaker 2: of them recreational marijuana. We're talking about Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio,

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Speaker 2: Michigan all have these things. Yet every year General Assembly

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Speaker 2: it's in Indianapolis, and every year it's talked about, and

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Speaker 2: every year the legislation goes absolutely nowhere. But when it

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Speaker 2: comes to banning these loopholes or closing these loopholes about

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Speaker 2: Delta A THHC. It looks like that one may actually

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Speaker 2: have some movement this year.

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Speaker 1: So Indiana says that they're against marijuana, and then they

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Speaker 1: want to pass this bill. Isn't this just going to

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Speaker 1: push more people to go to other states? Again?

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Speaker 2: Even more absolutely, it's going to do that. And and

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Speaker 2: and for a for a legislation, you know, a legislative

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Speaker 2: body that you know has never met a tax they

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Speaker 2: don't love. It would be one thing if they were

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Speaker 2: to make it legal here in the state and tax it,

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Speaker 2: but for some reason, they just haven't done that. And

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Speaker 2: now they're closing down an avenue of sales. And whether

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Speaker 2: it's right or wrong, there's going to be small businesses impacted,

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Speaker 2: employees impacted, and at the very least sales tax sales

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Speaker 2: tax revenue that's impacted. And it's probably going to go

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Speaker 2: to those neighboring states that we talked about. If people

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Speaker 2: want this, they're going to drive to Ohio, They're going

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Speaker 2: to drive to Michigan gets hockey in Illinois.

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Speaker 1: So the lawmakers say that they want clear rules, consumer safety,

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Speaker 1: and strong protections for you at The bill pass committee

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Speaker 1: seven to two along party lines, and it now will

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Speaker 1: head to the Senate Appropriations Committee,