I hate ever bringing that stuff up though because some of these labs like KCA are super fucking smart. Trace/minor cannabinoids though I feel like we don’t know anywhere enough. It’s a pretty dark void from what I understand
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This should really be under big PHARMACEUTICALs wheelhouse. That’s going to be the FDAs point of view, IMO.
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The final rules released last month talk about how d8 occurs naturally in hemp in small quantities but doesn’t need to be counted for in total thc count, lemme get my reflux started and I’ll drop some screen shots
The reason this is a big deal is because if they try to say it’s synthetic they can’t because our own government has said it does occur in hemp in very small quantities
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But considering D9 is obviously illegal, they would consider it “hot distillate” right?
But what about integrating it into METRC? For instance I’m sure it would save you guys insane amounts of money to do this conversion instead of buying CAT 3 crude through METRC
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At least one retailer, a smoke-shop operator in south Texas, has been charged with drug crimes for selling delta-8 THC products that came from hemp. (The case has not been resolved, and the DEA rule is under legal challenge by the Hemp Industries Association.)
The challenge is happening and Texas done did it.
Glad it wasn’t me.
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Headed to my garage to try now. Say a prayer
(Just kidding)
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Triisobutylaluminium is pyrophoric meaning it’s oxygen sensitive
Yall thought d8 was gonna kill ppl wait till ppl start messing with Triisobutylaluminium and burning builds down
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Luckily its not as easy to buy as ptsa
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It’s still pretty easy to get if you know how
Atleast you can’t get it off ebay like ptsa lol
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Hopefully people in the know on getting reagents should at least know a little more than the average guy and would know enough to know this isn’t worth the risk unless you are properly setup to handle it.
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Wait is this the only possible conversion, or the only conversion that we know is possible at the moment?
I’m interested into how these SOP’s play into all the other minor cannabinoid conversions and stuff
Delta 8 is systematically present in natural CBD products, usually in a ratio 1:3 to 1:4 regarding delta 9. That means it never exceeds 0.3wt.% in dried flowers.
Isomerized D9 is only good for edibles and topicals, (if it’s even good for edibles) but his statement about extracting it from cannabis will likely never be true.
There’s a lot more stuff in cannabis that makes it medicine beyond D9, and anyone who actually uses it for medicine and has compared pure D9 to a full-spectrum extract will be able to explain how it’s different.
Not to mention the terps/flavonoids, the people that don’t want synthesized products, and the dabbing consumer base. No one who dabs is gonna be excited about isomerized D9 with no flavor. Seed to sale tracking will keep the price of cannabis extracts higher than CBD isomerized material for a loooooong time, if not forever.
It will be impossible for the consumer or the regulatory entities to determine if the D9 came directly from the plant or came from CBD conversion. Only way to suspect would be to see large amount of D8 and D10 in the sample since those are only in trace amounts in the plant, and those could be mitigated with some good chromatography clean up.
THC is about to be as common as ibuprophen. I give it 10 years.
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This is not true, reason being that in the legal cannabis market, all products are tracked from seed to sale. Therefore, if a kilo of D9 came from hemp then it might not have any paperwork other than a COA (hopefully) but a kilo of D9 from cannabis has tracking going all the way back to the grow the plants came from.
Some states like Colorado are requiring hemp to be tracked in this same manner, METRC.
There are about a bazillion ways for MJ peeps to get around this. METRC ain’t exactly airtight
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Sure, but that’s true for any company that has to track and trace the materials it uses to make drugs.
Do pharmaceutical companies use illegitimate precursors for their drugs and lie about it? I highly doubt it, if they do, and they get caught, that should be an offense large enough to get them shut down.
I would say the same for cannabis companies, I haven’t met a white market owner that would take that kind of risk.
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The only problem that I honestly see is that conversion labs should require
Some sort of certification.
Isolate is a clean input.
If traditional THC biomass and processing can’t keep up and supply clean biomass what’s the problem using isolate and doing conversions?
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