A proposed Ohio bill aims to ban intoxicating hemp product sales to those under 21 and prohibit products attractive to children or untested under state cannabis market standards. State Sen. Bill DeMora introduced the measure to stop unregulated, child-targeted products. Gov. Mike DeWine supports the bill, citing the lack of regulation as a major issue, and is prepared to act without legislative action if necessary. Ohio is currently one of about 20 states without intoxicating hemp product regulations.

Ohio Bill Would Create Regulations for Intoxicating Hemp Products, Ban Underage Sales

Oct 7, 2025

TG Branfalt

Ganjapreneur

A recently proposed bill in Ohio seeks to ban the sale of intoxicating hemp
products to people under 21-years-old. The measure would also prohibit the
sale of intoxicating hemp products that have not been tested under the same
program as products sold in the state adult and medical cannabis market.

Additionally, the proposal would ban sales of any intoxicating hemp
products that are “considered attractive to children,” according to the
bill text, banning products “that bears the likeness or contains the
characteristics of a realistic or fictional human, animal, or fruit,
including artistic, caricature, or cartoon renderings.”

State Sen. Bill DeMora (D) told the Ohio Capital Journal that he introduced
the measure “to get rid of the stuff that everybody agrees is bad.”

“Everybody agrees (intoxicating hemp products are) targeted to children to
look like Skittles and Oreo cookies and that it’s unregulated. … We need to
act because this stuff is poisoning kids (and) making kids sick.”
— DeMora to the Capital Journal

The measure, which includes a fifth-degree felony charge for underage sales
and a first-degree misdemeanor charge for selling products that could be
attractive to children, has the support from Gov. Mike DeWine (R), who told
reporters last week that the lack of regulations for intoxicating hemp
products is “a huge problem.” He added that if the bill isn’t passed, he is
looking at things he “might be able to do without legislative action.”

“There’s really no regulation at all. We need regulation. We need the
legislature to take action on this,” he said, according to the Capital
Journal. “Hopefully this bill will, if nothing else, we can all agree on
one thing – to get the bad stuff out of the hands of kids and stop the
marketing toward kids.”

According to a 2024 study by the Ohio State University Drug Enforcement
Policy Center, Ohio is one of about 20 states that do not have any
regulations on intoxicating hemp products.

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