MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Mobile Attorney John Fisher has a case to argue, one that he’s personally involved with.
He wants to convince the courts , law makers and the public that those hemp products you see sold in CBD store across Alabama… should continue to be sold.
“If people had the experience I’ve had for the last 5 years, how it has literally changed my life,” he says, they would look at it and think completely differently.”
Fisher said he was prescribed hemp product after a knee replacement left him with chronic pain.
Marijuana based products helped him avoid alcohol and opiates, he says.
Monday night, Fisher was a guest on a program broadcast live on Mobile radio station FM Talk 1065.
It’s called “Sweet Home, CanaBama”… a show paid for and hosted by Jennifer Boozer.
“We are doing real work,” she says. “We are helping people every single day.”
Boozer owns Canabama, one of the oldest hemp product stores in the state.
She’s also CEO of the Alabama Hemp Trade Association.
And she’s worried that a new bill introduced by a north Alabama legislator could not only damage her industry, but shut it down completely.
“The biggest complaint that we hear is public safety and access for children,” says Boozer. “And no one in the hemp industry that is a legitimate business person wants kids to have access to hemp. We don’t want kids to get their parents gummies anymore than we want them to get their parent’s beer. We don’t want that.”
And while that is one focus of Senate Bill 132, it goes much farther… asking lawmakers to change the designation of hemp based products such as Delta 8, Delta 9 and Delta 10 in Alabama to have the same narcotics classification as heroin, LSD and other drugs known as schedule 1 narcotics. Just having possession of such is a felony in Alabama that could land you 5 years in jail… products that are now legally sold in Alabama just about everywhere you look.
Both Boozer and Fisher believe there is room to cooperate if the goal is to keep the product out of the wrong hands.
Boozer hopes to find a sponsor for a compromise bill that has been used in other states.
Will lawmakers be receptive?
“I wish I knew a solid answer for that,” she replies. “I’d like to think that, because we have been working behind the scenes to create regulatory legislation ourselves. We want to self-regulate, we do self-regulate. But that is not a legitimate enough thing, apparently, so we want rules on the books that we are supposed to follow so that the ones who don’t can be dealt with and move out of the way to let the rest of us to operate our businesses with integrity.”
Right now, senator Melson’s bill is waiting to be considered by the senate committee on health care.
Mobile Attorney John Fisher has a case to argue, one that he’s personally involved with.He wants to convince the courts , law makers and the public that those h Read More
