The public got a chance to weigh in today on how CBD and Delta eight products should be regulated.

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services held the meeting to get feedback on its regulations.

Hemp supporters spoke during the meeting, saying the regulations for producing, manufacturing and marketing are too strict.

During public comment, many supporters said they disagreed with the requirement that mail order products must have a signed order form guaranteeing that the person receiving it was 21 and older.

However, one member from the alcohol industry said he felt it was needed.

That begins today's health news.

Our customers aren't taking this for intoxicating purposes.

Our customers are taking these products for pain, anxiety and sleep in a not intoxicating way.

There's no evidence of young people abusing these products.

And so therefore, we're very concerned about age, gating, age, limiting our products in retail settings.

This is an incredibly burdensome regulation and could very much complicate our ability to conduct business as an e-commerce company.

And so would just like to reaffirm that we understand the need for these regulations and we do not want full spectrum products to be regulated the same way as intoxicating Delta products because they are much different.

One is a wellness product and the other is an intoxicating product.

The problem with having the 21 and up signature at the top at the time that that comes out, I mean, that's absolutely impossible.

A lot of people work and they are not going to be at home to sign for their packages.

However, my system, my website, I have an age verification checker on it.

There are apps that you can have on your website that will fail an order if those people are under 21 years of age.

I have done this even for CBD products limited at 21.

It's just easier that way.

But with these intoxicating products and what is really piqued our interest in the alcohol beverage space are beverage products that are being infused with Delta eight THC and marketed as intoxicating products.

For these products that are clearly intoxicating, ingestible products that are clearly intoxicating, I really don't see a huge distinction between this and alcohol.

And we all know the strong, you know, oversight that we have with alcohol.

And it's proven to be successful probably over a 90 year period.

So we have a good, pretty sound system when it comes to alcohol oversight.

Hemp supporters also say that packaging and marketing rules are inconsistent with other states and create problems with interstate sales.