I don’t believe people should be locked up by people that make vague laws. I think the civilians should use vague laws to exercise as much power as possible or to reform them into more common sense approaches. I just simply don’t understand giving law enforcement/government the benefit of the doubt over this issue and just rolling over on it after all we’ve been through in the cannabis community. It’s like some of you are actually “well, actually!” folks on the government’s behalf. Almost like prohibitionists. Just say they wrote a shit law and it’s on THEM to clarify it before they lock people up! Why is that so hard… That is why I support @cassin and the effort made to bring something like this forth.
Stop blaming those taking advantage of the vague law, start asking those who passed the shitty law to change it. When government employees from the agency that makes these laws says it’s good to go, you really expect a mom and pop cannabis shop to question what they are selling when every single other shop in town is doing it and they need to compete? That doesn’t make those people bad. It makes them small business owners trying their best to follow the law. Or how about we go back to D8 sprayed flower it’s nuts hearing this forum complain about D8 and then get mad at people selling THCa because they think it’s a gray area!
I really hope there is an update on this bill sooner rather than later.
Many of us have been asking for this for years, you must not have been around when i use to fight with idiots over the legality of D8.
Im all for this bill dont get me wrong, i believe cannabis should be totally decriminalized whether it be hemp or Marijuana.
I just dont think its right to sell a customer a product they could get in trouble for, especially based on the knowledge that a basic customer has.
Yes some understand the risks but 90% dont. And for someone to get in trouble for having thc a and thinking its legal and then getting screwed because they didnt know the law is fucked up to me.
The thing i dont think you realize is that they call for decarboxylation testing or total thc testing when testing hemp so if law enforcement pulls you over and arrests you for thc a your thc a isnt going to be legal under the USDA testing guidelines which is what law enforcement is going to follow…
Im all for safer access for everyone, im not for making a quick buck off a customer with little to no knowledge who just wants to get high and them getting in trouble.
I have had several friends who were pulled over with THCA flower in a non-legal state and were let go because they had a USDA test showing it was under 0.3 D9 and had a receipt of sale with packaging from a local shop. Officers are not stupid and they understand intent, and are even compassionate more often than not.
If it were black market or dispensary they would have been arrested. What say you to this?
Anyways, I think this is fruitless. I’m not trying to hijack this thread. I’m just hopeful for an update.
So I’m also confused. When first given the draft it clearly indicated all cannabinoids are created equal and there would be a new office of cannabis science at the FDA.
But now it appears in this draft it says that cannabis sativa L (which includes more than just hemp) but also then uses the word hemp.
Probably someone made edits and has caused the confusion. After inquiring with the authors - that is what was indicated.
Using this to pave the way for a new class of substances (cannabinoids) that are monitored by the FDA (as they are now) but that do not necessarily need to be “drugs” going through the FDA IND and NDA process.
The “regulared methods” do not exist yet. Those would need to be made by the new office of cannabinoids at the FDA. Should this pass. Which it won’t right now.
So its super important that we comment back to them about things we like and don’t like. Things that are confusing. And things that impact us as patients, consumers, farmers, and producers. <3
it’s nuts hearing this forum complain about D8 and then get mad at people selling THCa because they think it’s a gray area!