This spring, Gov. Sarah Sanders signed Act 590 and Act 629, bills passed by the state Legislature and now in effect, that ban anyone from marketing e-cigarettes to kids and from selling any hemp-derived product with 0.3 percent or more. Both pieces of legislation provide Arkansas law enforcement with more tools to protect youth and target criminals, not mom-and-pop convenience shops and vape stores.

Last month, agents from the Arkansas Department of Finance Regulatory Enforcement seized thousands of illegal hemp-derived and THC products from smoke shops across the state. Some of these stores were also selling illicit Chinese nicotine vapes in youth-enticing flavors.

These vapes are not regulated by the FDA and can contain up to 30 times the nicotine of a legal e-cigarette. According to a

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