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ATTN: "Hemp" Haters New ammunition to fire back at the "hemp already legalized cannabis" people This "hemp" ain't hemp most of the time! Nice white paper "The Great "Hemp" Hoax" by some very smart people in the industry. Hemp-derived THC isn’t what you think it is. In a new study highlighted in the whitepaper, researchers tested 104 so-called "hemp" products from 68 brands, and the results were pretty shocking: 95% of vapes and gummies contained synthetic or converted cannabinoids (mostly chemically manufactured THC, both d8 adn d9) Easily bought online—no age verification, no safety testing This isn’t hemp. This is an unregulated synthetic drug market exploiting a legal loophole. And why is this happening? Because naturally extracting Delta-8 or Delta-9 THC from hemp is wildly impractical! Instead, companies are using lab-made THC—often including ultra-potent synthetic molecules like THCP and now-banned THCO—compounds that barely exist or don't exist at all in natural cannabis. Often companies using these converted cannabinoids do not even know they were converted! The hemp loophole isn’t just broken—it’s fueling an unregulated industry with unknown risks, all while the marijuana plant is regulated to death.
Great post Codi Peterson
Also correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t groundwork holdings owner of a lot of cannabis companies? Oh, yes they are. Do any of the other parties listed invested in cannabis? Oh, wait yes they are. Also, wasn’t Delta 8 (found in plant, 1941) used in pediatrics cancer to suppress nausea and in crease appetite, oh yes it was and I believe in my home town Memphis at the word renowned St Jude? Oh, wait, did I have a member of that medical team that was on that team? Oh, yes I did. Did Raphael Mechoulam say that THCp was not a synthetic? Oh yea he did. Come on guys We can argue and I can do this all day but let’s just learn to play in the sandbox together. I have created framework for hemp multiple times. It’s not the hemp industry. Heck those that are true to the plant want some regulation.
Lol people aren't buying hemp for it's thc, they can literally visit the field it's grown in.. sounds like a prelude to a product launch
The Great Hemp Hoax is a hoax. Dig a little deeper into who the “researchers” are. It’s not about safe medicine. It’s about the bottom line.
This is a designer drug problem. Not a HEMP problem. And designer drugs have been thriving in gas stations and websites for decades, why all of a sudden push against Hemp specifically? Don't you think it might negatively impact the real Hemp industry and those producing real and compliant hemp products? Or is there some other motivation behind this new founded "concern" for society?
Is there a list of the brands/companies tested and the sources? I’d love to dig into this more and find where the data comes from. I think this is a real issue but was not aware it was this severe and want to see if the data skews in either direction
My standard response is "I love hemp - you know fiber, grain, hempcrete, ect. I dislike unregulated pharmaceutical development"
My take is given the option between legal regulated and tested cannabis (despite what anyone thinks about 3rd party testing) or any “hemp” product from one of those CBD smoke shops is something like playing a game of Russian roulette. There MAY be a bullet in the marijuana gun, but the hemp gun is at least halfway filled. You’re gonna be burned if you played that side long enough… The way this country is progressing since the election, I don’t think any of it matters anymore. We aren’t going to have an FDA, a USDA, a CDC or really any public safety institutions anymore, The people voted and everybody can go scratch i suppose.
No methods. No accessible data. No peer-review. Just a white paper that shows a symptoim of poor California regulation in a high-demand market. The root cause of all of these problems is the federal government's refusal to de-schedule or re-schedule. As with cannabis historically, increased drug war prohibition efforts are counterproductive for preventing access and directly causes harm to users. It seems like the MSOs have taken a page out of the Big-Tobacco playbook and disguised the efforts as a concern for patients.
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1moCodi, curious your take as a scientist, what could hemp brands do to disprove these claims/reassure consumers that their products are as stated? Providing ND results for common adulterants/byproducts/analogs? What should an informed consumer who reads this post/study look for when buying hemp THC products?