Inside a commercial kitchen near Raleigh, North Carolina, Nicholas Hohns pours a blue-green substance into gridded moulds to create a flagship product for his business: high-strength THC gummies containing the main psychoactive component found in marijuana.
He could soon be forced to close the operation. The United States’ multibillion-dollar market for intoxicating hemp items — spanning THC-infused seltzers stocked by Target stores to smokable cannabis flower — faces potential shutdown after Congress voted to plug a federal loophole that permitted the trade to expand.
