COLUMBUS, Ohio — A hotly debated piece of legislation failed to pass before the Ohio General Assembly went on their summer vacation that doesn’t end until October.

“I’m hopeful that the legislature will wrap this up and give us a bill and we can go on to other discussions,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said, still hopeful at the start of last week.

DeWine has been urging the legislature to pass a bill that regulates intoxicating hemp products for a year and a half now, and the idea has support from both Republicans and Democrats.

“Of course, we should regulate intoxicating hemp,” Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) said. “You can go, unfortunately, walk into too many stores and they don’t ID you, you don’t know what’s in it, there’s advertising to children. There are so many common-sense things that we agree on and when the majority brings forward a clean bill, we would be happy to vote for it.”

Itoxicating hemp” products — like Delta 8 — are low-level THC products. Those products can give you a high similar to marijuana but are not regulated, can be sold to anyone at any age, and is often found at places like convenience stores; it is known by some as “diet weed.”

So, if there is bipartisan support, what’s the holdup in getting something done? On the Republican side, it is largely a disagreement about how exactly to regulate those products.