Distributors “Legitimize” Hemp THC Bevs, as Feds Lag on Regs

Dear Client:  This week’s Center for Alcohol Policies Conference (CAP) shone a spotlight on one of the hottest canned beverages around: intoxicating, hemp-derived Delta-9 THC beverages.  The nascent industry came up throughout the day-and-a-half conference (as it has at many others) with one advocate suggesting this “stuff” cannot “be regulated” and should not be incorporated and embraced by the 3-tier system, to which a distributor defended hemp beverage’s position on his beer trucks.  “The horse is out of the barn,