§ 3.2-5145.1 Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: “Food” means any article that is intended for human consumption and introduction into commerce, whether the article is simple, mixed, or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation thereof. “Food” does not mean drug as defined in § 54.1-3401. “Industrial hemp” means a Cannabis sativa plant that has a concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol that is no greater than that allowed by federal law. “Industrial hemp extract” means an extract (i) of industrial hemp, (ii) that is intended for human consumption, and (iii) except as otherwise provided in subsection M of § 54.1-3442.6, when offered for retail sale, that (a) contains a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that is no greater than 0.3 percent and (b) contains either no more than two milligrams of total tetrahydrocannabinol per package or an amount of cannabidiol that is no less than 25 times greater than the amount of total tetrahydrocannabinol per package. “Industrial hemp extract” is not a hemp seed-derived ingredient that is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or is the subject of a generally recognized as safe notice for which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had no questions. “Tetrahydrocannabinol” means the same as that term is defined in § 3.2-4112. “Total tetrahydrocannabinol” means the same as that term is defined in § 3.2-4112.
History
This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 659 and 660 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2023, chapters 744 and 794.
2020, cc. 659, 660; 2023, cc. 744, 794.