Holcomb: Excise police to perform checks, issue warnings to retailers for CBD oil products over 60-day period
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Gov. Holcomb has directed Excise Police to begin performing spot checks and issue warnings the next 60 days for cannabidoil oil products.
Gov. Holcomb issued the following statement:
Applicable law and opinions guide me to direct the Excise Police to perform normal, periodic regulatory spot checks of CBD oil products, focusing on those products which contain any level of THC. Because CBD oil has been sold in Indiana for several years, the excise police will use the next 60 days to educate, inform and issue warnings to retailers so there is a reasonable period of time for them to remove products that contain THC.
“In the meantime, the General Assembly will have the opportunity to review existing CBD oil laws, as well as labeling requirements, while no confiscation of products occurs.
“The legislation I signed in the spring continues to help protect Hoosiers struggling with epilepsy who use CBD oil products for treatment, provided they register with the Indiana State Department of Health.”
This comes after Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill decided that cannabis-derived CBD oil is still illegal – with a few rare exceptions last week.
Hill said the statewide confusion over House Bill 1148 prompted his office to review and clarify the bill.
He said the bill legalizes CBD oil for patients of treatment-resistant epilepsy. Their caregiver can also possess it. They have to register with the state’s Department of Health.