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This is the New Realm Compliance Brief, Volume one, Edition eighty-eight, for Monday, November ninth.
Our top story is in Illinois. The Illinois Healthy Alternatives Association and a group of hemp businesses have filed a federal lawsuit and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order against the state law that restricts hemp-derived T H C products to licensed cannabis dispensaries starting Thursday, November twelfth. The plaintiffs argue the law is unconstitutional and said it puts thousands of businesses and jobs at risk. State leaders said the ban is needed to protect consumers, particularly children, from unregulated products. Unless a judge pauses the law this week, Illinois bars, liquor stores and other non-dispensary retailers must clear over-threshold T H C drinks from their shelves by Wednesday night.
At the federal level, the National Congress of American Indians adopted a resolution saying the administration failed to consult tribes on the April marijuana rescheduling order, and asked the Justice Department to amend the order or issue a separate rule covering tribally licensed products.
Around the states. In South Carolina, the Post and Courier reports that the federal hemp rules taking effect December eleventh would prohibit nearly all hemp-derived T H C beverages, gummies and vapes, in a state market estimated at up to one and a half billion dollars a year. Representative Nancy Mace has sponsored a bill to reverse the rules, but it has not advanced beyond committee. And in Massachusetts, the state Senate voted thirty-five to four for a budget bill that would let military veterans register as medical cannabis patients using a V A diagnosis, adding P T S D, chronic pain and opioid use disorder as qualifying conditions.
On the radar: December eleventh is the federal hemp ban effective date, with a limit of four tenths of a milligram of T H C per container. A D E A administrative judge's recommendation on rescheduling is expected after final briefs were filed last week. And January fifteenth, twenty twenty-seven, is the T T B deadline to reformulate alcohol beverages containing Red Number Three dye.
Full details and source links are in today's email. This update is for general information only — it is not legal advice.