But now that farm — like many other licensed grows in states that have legalized marijuana — faces an existential threat: high-inducing cannabis compounds derived not from the heavily regulated and taxed legal marijuana industry, but from a chemical process involving little-regulated, cheaply grown hemp.
“It’s going to make our farm obsolete,” Griffis, the chief operating officer of True North Collective, testified before Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency recently. “The $3 million or so that I’ve invested … is going to be wiped out.”
At the center of the issue is THC, marijuana’s main intoxicating component. While marijuana and hemp are the same plant — cannabis — the distinction between the two is a legal one, and comes down to the amount of THC in the plant, specifically the amount of a type of THC called delta-9.
Will lead to federal commissions and committees and eventual regulation by the federal government, always on the lookout for another multi-billion-dollar industry to tax.
ReplyDeleteHaving grown 12 acres of industrial CBD/floral hemp in 2019, I can assure you that there's PLENTY of governmental regulations to deal with.
ReplyDeleteAnd... to be in compliance with state & federal regulations, the hemp flower material cannot contain more than 0.3% THC... you could not smoke enough to ever get high. I know there are outfits producing delta-8 THC and HHC from hemp, I suspect that working your way up from a product that only has one-third of one percent THC to a level that can produce anything in the way of euphoria takes some extracting and concentrating.
It's a lost cause. Commercial hemp may only contain a little THC, but it's a lipid, and should be extractable with any of a number of solvents, and easily concentrated (though I've never tried). More, there are other plants that provide similar compounds that folk should be able to convert to THC if they wanted to. See, for instance: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ob/d0ob00464b
ReplyDeleteI think it is hilarious that the idiots in California who legalized pot, now have to subsidize it to make it profitable! Goddamn what a bunch of morons.
ReplyDeleteThis from a weed that grows wild.
We need a societal/governmental collapse so badly if we are to survive.
Only govt can fuk up growing pot, thru regs and taxes...
DeleteDamn irs took over a whore house in NV -and managed to lose money.
When it absolutely has to fail - get govt involved.
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I live in Michigan, and just the other day, in our local newspaper, I think that I read that our county raked in some 1.3 million dollars last year from the taxes collected from the sale of marijuana, just in our own county.
ReplyDeleteMy hometown, with less than one thousand people, and one square mile of land, has I believe 3 marijuana dispensaries, with 2 other groups trying to get approval to come in as well. I just cannot believe how people are buying so much pot.
Makes one wonder what the market would be for some other drug, like Norco, or Oxycontin, that many people were kicked off, when the big government moved to get people who relied on it for pain were suddenly told that they could no longer be treated for pain.
MORE act is in the house right now, fingers crossed it's passed and passes the senate as well so this will end. States will have an uphill battle if they want to restrict peoples recreation and vices. Perhaps we might even decriminalize all of nature.
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I have been in the Cannabis industry since before it was a legal industry and this fake cannabis it is nothing to worry about. As people start realizing that most commercial big business cannabis is grown with salts and chemicals. They will stop purchasing these toxic products and look for a natural solution to growing top notch Cannabis. I see it all to often. Corporate Cannabis Companies grow amazing looking buds except the terpenes are lacking. This means less flavor and a harsher smoke. So before people start jumping on the fake weed bandwagon consider this. If your worried about eating organic or just healthy. How good for you is Chemical WEED?
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