Hawaii Hemp Sellers Challenge State’s Regulations, Testing Rules

Hawaii business owners are challenging the state’s definition of what constitutes a legal hemp product and its regulations imposing certain testing requirements, arguing they conflict with federal law.

“Hawaii has enacted and enforces a divergent regulatory scheme that re-criminalizes federally lawful hemp products through alternative testing methodologies and product-form restrictions not found in federal law,” two hemp distributors alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Hawaii in 2020 passed a law that changed the state’s definition of hemp to include products with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of up to 0.3% “as ...