MONTGOMERY — A new law recently passed by the Alabama Legislature doesn’t prohibit interstate shipping of hemp products, according to Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Anderson.
Anderson denied on Monday a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed by hemp companies last week.
“The Court finds as a matter of law that House Bill 445 does not impede or prohibit interstate shipping of hemp products,” Anderson said in an order on Monday.
Four hemp companies sued Gov. Kay Ivey and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Friday, claiming a part of a new law passed in the 2025 session regulating and restricting certain hemp products is unconstitutional.
Ivey signed the hemp bill into law on May 14. Mellow Fellow Fun, Tasty Haze, The Humble Hemp Shack, and Seedless Green filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Friday.
Brandon Essig, an attorney representing the hemp companies, argues in the lawsuit the new law criminalizing the possession of federally legal “smokable hemp products” and “synthetic hemp products” and allowing state law enforcement to seize such products violates the 2018 Farm Bill, the Commerce Clause, and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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