You know how, for the last few years, the shelves of vape shops, truck stops and gas stations around The Natural State were full of products with names like Trips Ahoy, Area 52 and Zombi Death Drops? These products — which were not “marijuana” in the legal sense, but still contained psychoactive cannabinoids — existed in a weird legal gray area. That is, they were accidentally legalized by a 2018 federal law, banned by Arkansas in 2023, but were still available in stores thanks to a court injunction against that ban.

Until recently. Now those shelves are empty, thanks to a ruling from the federal 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in late June. The 8th Circuit said Arkansas can enforce its ban on the sale of hemp-derived products containing psychoactive levels of delta-9 THC, as well as other

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