Retailers billing themselves as sellers of legal hemp products are instead selling highly intoxicating marijuana products, a recent report shows.
Officials working on the Missouri Hemp Hoax Report sent 55 products bought at smoke shops, gas stations and other retailers for testing. The test results showed that 96% of them were actually marijuana or synthetic THC — or tetrahydrocannabinol, the main ingredient in a cannabis plant that makes users feel high.
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