Indiana Missing Out on Mega Marijuana Profits

EVANSVILLE – Marijuana has long been illegal in Indiana. But now the burgeoning hemp business that's allowed scores of Delta-8 and Delta-9 products to flood the market could be in trouble, too.

Earlier this month, as part of the massive bill to reopen the federal government, officials provided clearer definitions between what's legal and what's not.

Any derivative of the cannabis plant that exceeds "0.3 percent in the plant on a dry weight basis" in THC concentration – the compound that gets users high – will now be illegal on the federal level. The move closed an inadvertent loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill that sparked the new hemp industry in the first place.

Shops in the Evansville area have already faced cannabis crackdowns in the past.

Now scores of people in the Indiana hemp business are unsure how to move forward, if they can at all.

Our neighbors to the west, north and east, however, won't have that problem.

Unlike Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, Indiana remains one of the few holdouts in the country to keep total cannabis prohibition on the books. Even Kentucky has legalized medical marijuana. Its operations could be up and running soon.

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