{"id":81254,"date":"2026-11-12T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/thc-drink-companies-rush-to-sell-inventory-as-illinois-ban-takes-effect\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:55:36","slug":"thc-drink-companies-rush-to-sell-inventory-as-illinois-ban-takes-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/thc-drink-companies-rush-to-sell-inventory-as-illinois-ban-takes-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"THC drink companies rush to sell inventory as Illinois ban takes effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many hemp companies are shipping their remaining inventory to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Tennessee, which have different regulations<\/p>\n<p>At midnight this morning in Illinois, hemp-derived THC drinks transformed from grocery store commodities into illegal narcotics, and manufacturers have been rushing to sell their inventory or ship it out of state.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans tacked a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/12\/hemp-republican-spending-bill\"> last-minute provision<\/a> on to last year\u2019s spending bill that ended the government shutdown, banning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/17\/hemp-ban-medicare-medicaid\">all hemp-derived THC products,<\/a> including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsitlike.me\/the-thc-drink-industry-is-about-to-die-are-we-losing-a-healthier-alcohol-alternative\/\">THC-infused alcohol alternatives<\/a> sold at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/25\/business\/cannabis-thc-alcoholic-beverages.html\"> liquor stores and grocery stores<\/a>. Under the new law, no container can have more than 0.4mg THC total.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/12\/thc-drinks-ban-illinois\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many hemp companies are shipping their remaining inventory to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Tennessee, which have different regulations At midnight this morning in Illinois, hemp-derived THC drinks transformed from grocery store commodities into illegal narcotics, and manufacturers have been rushing to sell their inventory or ship it out of state. Republicans tacked a last-minute provision on &#8230; <a title=\"THC drink companies rush to sell inventory as Illinois ban takes effect\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/thc-drink-companies-rush-to-sell-inventory-as-illinois-ban-takes-effect\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about THC drink companies rush to sell inventory as Illinois ban takes effect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}