Ten Wyoming hemp businesses and one individual hemp seller on Monday asked a federal judge to declare Wyoming's new law against synthetic cannabis variants unlawful by Congress' standards, and to block it going forward.
The plaintiffs filed their action in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming against Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, the state attorney general, the state director of agriculture, and all of Wyoming's elected prosecutors.
"(The new law) creates insurmountable confusion around criminal liability and destroys the mere act of processing hemp into consumable products," says the lawsuit. "(We) face irreparable harm unless this court enjoins (the law)."
The lawsuit claims that Wyoming's recently-passed Senate File 32, which is now Enrolled Act 24 and became enforceable Monday, is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. The law expands the definition of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to include some of its psychoactive and synthetic variants, making it harder to sell low-THC hemp products under a permissive federal law.
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