Thanks for your input.
I’m interested in hemp THCA because it offers cost savings compared to METRC THCA and reduces environmental waste. I want them to allow hemp waste stream THCA sales to cannabis within METRC. I would pitch it to them as a waste stream to revenue stream solution for hemp growers and processors.
I’m not interested in THCA flower or conversions except maybe CBN.
Something I read the other day from Cannabis Biz Times:
You totally should. Sustainability is important. I’m not sure that THCa is really a “waste stream” - but I like the idea of that. I know people are talking about there being enough mother liquor out there to do this… but with all the hemp edibles, we’re still having rock bottom THCa available - just from mother liquor? That mass balance doesn’t make sense to me.
Maybe its one of those - it was THCa hemp flower… and normal extraction processes. But not actually waste? Hmmmm. I shall have to consider this alternative path.
At a large enough scale, the amount of THCA extracted from CBD hemp plants (not THC plants in disguise) and lost to waste when producing CBD end products must be considerable. I want to tap into that waste stream.
I don’t think that waste stream exists seeing as it’s pretty much all decarbed to crash the CBD out
I bet that with a big enough incentive (selling THCA as a waste stream product), innovations in processes and equipment would occur. As you wrote, hemp THCA is already a waste stream product, but most of it is first decarbed. And if I can’t buy their THCA waste stream, I should be able to buy their THC waste stream.
I’m not trying to do the heavy lifting. I’m just throwing out ideas that I hope someone will turn into reality.
The hemp is tested in the field at week 5. It’s supposed to be hot at harvest.
That’s the whole point. Nobody wants a bunch of 7.5%cbda biomass it’s not worth the $4
Right. So bogus rules. Put in place for identical plants that have no additional taxes, no additional licensing fees, and no per plant fee. But legit the same plant because regulators are not scientists.
I mean I get it. And I think that the whole plant should be available and we shouldn’t have to have these ridiculous prohibitionist minded rules.
But I also think its fucked that I can literally grow the same plants in two different facilities in the same town, even on the same block. And one will cost me $2.65 per fucking plant just in fees and plant tags. And the other costs me less than $0.06 per fucking plant in fees, and that’s if I only grow 10,000 plants, if I grow more plants than that, the number goes down and there is no real limit on how many I can grow.
With no BFS inspections. No mandated testing other than for THC at week 5. No reviews on pesticide usage or discussions on the quantity of yeast or mold on the plants. No review at all on aspergillus or heavy metals.
And I can move forward with normal business relationships with my bank and with my landlord. Without having to file extra documents specific to my lease agreement. And without having to fill out fucking crazy bank paper work and without having to pay $500 or more a month just to have a deposit account.
And still growing the same plants.
Mindboggling how we, as citizens, allow rules like this to exist and don’t rage until the legislators here us clearly and fix it.