Last week, Georgia passed SB 494, a bill establishing a regulatory framework and other rules for businesses that sell or manufacture hemp and hemp products.
If the bill is signed into law by the Governor, it will go into effect on July 1, 2024.
The new law will institute age limits on certain hemp products, advertising restrictions, and require all consumable hemp products are tested for a variety of additional hemp extracts besides Delta-9-THC. Read a full review here.
From the Church Law Firm review:
…SB 494 will effectively eliminate the market for THCA products, especially flower and vape products that have high percentages of THCA. That’s because SB 494 introduces new language that requires hemp and consumable hemp products to be tested for a “total delta-9-THC concentration” that accounts for both the amount of delta-9-THC and THCA in a product. Under these new standards, products will have to have under 0.3% of both Delta-9-THC and Delta-9-THCA to be legal.
To be more technically precise, SB 494 will require that the “total delta-9-THC concentration” in a product be established either 1) by testing a sample that has “undergone decarboxylation such that all delta-9-THCA in the sample has been converted to delta-9-THC” or 2) by identifying the amount of delta-9-THCA “multiplied by 0.877 plus the percentage by weight…of delta-9-THC.”