‘They’ll stop coming here’: KC-area businesses react to new Missouri hemp ban

Executive Order 24-10 in Missouri will ban unregulated hemp products from store shelves.

That includes compounds like Delta-8 in foods, drinks, vapes and pre-rolled joints.

Royal Liquor on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, sells these products.

Muhammad Jawad, a store manager at Royal Liquor, said the products make up 10 to 15% of all of store sales.

“Feeling not good because some customers will move somewhere else,” Jawad said. “Even if it’s not over there, they’ll stop coming here too.”

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed the executive order in early August.

It comes from issues with children consuming these products, not realizing they contain a psychoactive compound.

It aims to make the industry safer by regulating packaging and testing.

At From the Earth Dispensary , store manager Cherelle Martel said you won’t find Delta-8 or other unregulated products on their shelves.

Martel showed KSHB 41’s Caroline Hogan just how detailed the label with results from testing and ingredients.

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