D8 vs. D9 – The cannabis industry’s civil war

This is the second part of a two-part series on Hemp Delta-8 THC and Cannabis Delta-9 THC included in the Controlled Substances Act. You can read the first part of the series “The Marijuana Industry is Dead” here. In short, Delta-8 THC is made from hemp in a lab, is considered federally legal by most people, and all federal challenges have been found legal by federal panels and courts. States ban the substance because they consider it unsafe because it’s made in a lab, but the same states that ban hemp Delta-8 are also big players in the marijuana industry, trying to protect their golden tax goose as well.

Let’s continue our story from Part 1….

Delta-8 is legal at the federal level, at least it has passed the legality test in every federal challenge. Officially, Delta-8 THC is legal under the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (SEC. 12619). The Farm Act legalized hemp and hemp products across America. Federal bodies have also declared Delta-8 legal amid challenges from various interested parties. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently wrote:

A panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in an opinion published Thursday that products containing delta-8-THC are generally legal because federal law defines hemp as “any part” of the cannabis plant, including ” of all derivatives, extracts, [and] Cannabinoids” that contains less than 0.3% by weight of delta-9-THC.

According to the court in a 3-0 verdict, the law is “silent on delta-8-THC”.

Although it is reportedly legal at the federal level, some states ban Delta-8 due to consumer safety concerns, since Delta-8 is made in a lab and contains “other ingredients” that could be harmful. If you look at the states that are banning the “potentially harmful” hemp-derived Delta-8, you’ll find that they’re much of the West Coast, or states with large marijuana industries. Where was the consumer safety concern when dabs, budders, waxes and shatters were made with butane? Now legal marijuana states, a threat to their jobs and golden tax goose, want to outlaw hemp’s ugly stepbrother. Delta-8 is made from hemp, why can’t hemp have a little fun and why does it always have to go to bed early and do its homework.

In the quest for full federal legalization, why on earth would states decide to proactively outlaw hemp-derived THC? We now have federally legal THC (Delta-8), and all heavy cannabis industry states with Delta-9 THC want to make the other hemp-derived illegal!

Gosh, are you talking about power and making money and nothing to do with the cousins ​​of the cannabis sativa plant.

The big concern as you read the first part of the series was that hemp delta-8 is psychoactive, legal, deliverable, easy to obtain, requires much less cost and tire to jump through compared to the “real deal” THC from grass”. If anyone can get high from hemp THC, why do we need the other “federally illegal” strain? Now you know why we called Part 1 The Marijuana Industry Is Dead.

But what happened from 2018 until recently to turn Delta-8 from a “diet high and flash in the pan” to a serious problem that saw the entire west coast banning a hemp-derived molecule? Has Delta-8 changed? Has the hemp plant gotten stronger or more potent?

no We had to dig deep to see what caused this new tsunami of worries and “bans”…

It wasn’t that Delta-8 changed, it was the method of delivery that changed so dramatically that it caused massive new marijuana-like effects. As we discussed in Part 1, we tried 8 to 10 Delta 8 products. Gummies, tinctures, vape pens and all were “so-so”, “almost kinda similar”, to “CBD with a little airiness”. Again, not to rehash the whole story here, but it seemed like Delta-8 had a quick shelf life, a get-rich-quick scheme, and who would want this stuff when we got federal legalization.

Nano Emulsion – The game changer that put Delta-8 on the map

It wasn’t a Delta 8 powder or extract switch, it was the carbonated beverage delivery method. The nano-emulsion essentially miniaturizes the delta-8 molecule to less than 50 ng. What does that mean? I don’t know, but small enough that it can now go directly into the bloodstream. It can break through more barriers and reach many, many attachments to your heart and head. They downsized Delta-8 molecules to put directly into your bloodstream and “Houston, we have a problem!” as some would say

30mg of Delta-8 THC in a fizzy drink will get you insanely stoned.

Yes, stoned like a good 10mg Delta 9 gummi. People are raving that this is totally legal, shipping it across America as you read this, getting people crazy stoned, helping people get a good nights sleep when CBN is added to the infusion. do you want to lose weight Could a THCV-infused Delta-8 drink go far beyond being an appetite suppressant and getting stoned?

Do you think we’re joking?

Look at this map again. Do you know how hard it is to pass a law or binding agreement at the state level, let alone one dealing with hemp that has just been legalized at the federal level? Look at how quickly states have moved to enforce these bans? Why? Money. Many jobs, tax revenues and money are at stake in these western state economies. When hemp beverages and the effects came to light, did many states move very quickly to ban a hemp-derived molecule? Say what?

They knew what could happen when people started trying and using Delta 8 drinks. There was a grassroots movement to stop hemp-derived delta-8-THC as a consumer safety issue, after nano-emulsion drinks solved their mystery, states moved ridiculously fast on such a “frivolous” item in state governments’ grand scheme.

Unless Delta-8 THC from hemp isn’t that dubious after all.

As mentioned in Part 1, this is the 13th man theory in World War Z. We dropped the ball; we wrote it off as dubious.

Who would have believed 10 years ago that the hemp industry would develop its own version of legal THC under the Farm Bill Act if I told you that we were still fighting for the federal legalization of delta-9 THC, and this was as good states would try to ban it to protect their own marijuana industry?

You can’t invent this stuff.

If the theory is correct that Big Marijuana or MSOs don’t want federal legalization to protect their state-to-state moats, would Delta-8 become a big enough problem where lobbyists and MSOs want federal legalization to fight back hemp products? Could Delta-8 Weirdly Push the Legalization of Delta-9, the “Real Deal THC”?

Crazy laser beams are exploding in my universe now.

If we don’t see federal legalization of marijuana in the next 4 or 5 years and we all get used to getting high on Delta-8 without fear of prosecution or state and federal retaliation, then we need Delta-9 at all -Cannabis? in 5 years?

And so the legal cannabis states jumped up to get the Delta 8 rules on the board.

Nanoemulsion and shrinking molecules in a lab just started the cannabis industry’s civil war.

READ PART 1, CLICK BELOW…

THE MARIJUANA INDUSTRY IS DEAD, READ HERE.