Under increasing pressure to tighten the rules for Louisiana’s exploding hemp industry, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is hammering out a stricter set of hemp regulations, after his bill to tweak the current hemp rules got a chilly reception from his…

Schexnayder has said in committee hearings that his 2021 bill set a percentage cap but not a milligram cap on hemp products, which has allowed purveyors to sell gummies and tinctures with high THC le…