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'Eventually, we're gonna lose' — Despite THC ban stalling, sellers still lack hope for future

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'Eventually, we're gonna lose' — Despite THC ban stalling, sellers still lack hope for future

• Andrew Wegley
• Jun 9, 2025
• Jun 9, 2025
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Sarah Linden, who owns Generation V and Grateful Green Dispensary with a combined 24 storefronts statewide, including this one near 17th and O streets in Lincoln, said she has little hope the industry will survive with the repeated efforts to ban THC products.

OLIVIA ANDERSON, Journal Star

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As Nebraska lawmakers last month debated whether to outlaw the hemp-derived THC products that have become a crucial component of his livelihood for the last five years, Brett Mayo watched helplessly from the Capitol Rotunda.

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Brett Mayo, chief extraction and marketing officer at Sweetwater Hemp Company, gives a tour of his family's Buffalo County hemp processing facility in 2024.

JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photo

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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announces Wednesday that he's attempting to crack down on the sale of Delta-8 THC products across the state through a series of consumer protection lawsuits filed against sellers. 

Courtesy of the attorney general's office

Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com. On Twitter @andrewwegley

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