Delta 8/intoxicating hemp regulatory and enforcement actions/news

Which came first lol

The d8 or the drama.

D8 and dirt dick measuring.

I had been mindlessly consuming my delta 8 until I discovered your post on r/delta8testing. So I come from Reddit and hope not to offend anyone here. But I do appreciate you for referring me to the site. I’ve learned a shit ton and appreciate the links to data you and many others have provided. The discussion on the topics is so much more informed and scientific than the shit that is peddled on Reddit

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So I guess we’re only going to eat cannabis for now on? Because it’s probably the only way you’re going to consume it without potential harm. And even then you’ve got to make sure it’s actually clean material. Combusting anything and breathing it in is bad for your health. Pick your poison.

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Ah yes, the consumer is always making poor choices in regard for their health. Let’s give them more to choose from, they pay me for it so who cares! It’s not our job to provide safe products to be consumed since they’re all detrimental anyway! People will always smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol and dab red hot dabs, what’s the problem with giving them six different cannabinoids that just came out in the past 5 years that they’ve never heard of before seeing it in the gas station I sold it to! Consumer says, “I wanna smoke bud.” Let them smoke d8! Hhc! Thc-o-acetate! Who cares! They don’t know the difference, it has tetrahydro in the name, there’s practically no difference at all!

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My response wasn’t about D8 in general, I guess I should have quoted what I was responding to. Someone was complaining about carts in general.

But yeah, you can only protect people from themselves so much. Pushing harmful products down their throats is bad business, we can all agree on that. We know that THC-O Acetate is potentially harmful now. But besides that, we don’t know what the long term effects of synthetic cannabinoids in general is.

Smoking weed in general, chronically, is bad for the mind.

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…but does it effect telomere length?

How does genetics play into that being a good vs bad thing?!?

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Totally agree with you on all that. It’s difficult to educate the consumer properly, at the end of the day people will do their own thing and they have that right. In that regard I wouldn’t sell 'em, and that’s just my opinion. Didn’t mean to go off like that tho lmao

We have a line of legal vapes that we sell to smoke shops, but I atleast sleep well at night knowing that I source alt-noids from the best possible source I can and that we don’t add anything extra into our carts to stretch them out.

One of my favorite past times is going to shops and reading the competitions listed COAs with them. Most of these brands have maybe 50-60% of cannabinoids and the rest is just…who fucking knows what. Or I REALLY love THCP products that have like…1% THCP.

It’s just as bad as the supplement market. I remember reading a report where they tested a bunch of St Johns Wart from a bunch of big box store and almost all of them didn’t contain any actual st johns wart.

There’s good and bad actors in all industries.

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A federal grand jury this afternoon returned a five-count indictment that accuses a Beverly Hills man – who was completing a sentence in a prior federal fraud case – of soliciting more than $9 million from investors with false claims they were investing in a hemp farm that did not exist.

Mark Roy Anderson, 68, who was living in Beverly Hills while on supervised release after serving a 135-month prison sentence, faces five counts of wire fraud in a case that alleges he tricked investors into providing funding for his company, called Harvest Farm Group, to harvest and process hemp, grown on his farm, into medical grade CBD isolate to be sold for a substantial profit.

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markroyanderson-complaint.pdf (358.0 KB)

another sheriff’s office using orange photonics HPLC for probable cause :man_facepalming:

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complaint.pdf (335.0 KB)

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Highlights from the Arkansas legal challenge lawsuit:
biogen-complaint.pdf (3.3 MB)
briefinsupportofTRO.pdf (350.3 KB)
motiontodismiss+response.pdf (411.7 KB)

3chi/midwest hemp vs Indiana AG:
motionforpreliminaryinjunction.pdf (151.5 KB)
response-in-opposition.pdf (251.8 KB)

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Another raid involving the DEA in TX, sounds like they’re trying to flip this guy to do controlled buys against wholesalers

Be careful in TX y’all

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Big win for Hempsters.

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Hemp_Opinion.pdf (1.6 MB)

Arkansas Federal Court = 2018 Farm Bill likely preempts the state’s ability to restrict the production of intoxicating hemp cannabinoids.

Virginia Federal Court = 2018 Farm Bill likely does not preempt the state’s ability to restrict the production of intoxicating hemp cannabinoids.

Maryland State Court = The issue wasn’t even before me but I’m going to opine on it anyway and hold that the 2018 Farm Bill likely preempts the state’s ability to restrict the production and sale of intoxicating hemp cannabinoids.

Indiana is next.

Will all this hemp litigation and potential circuit split lead to a novel preemption decision from the Supreme Court? Tune into the next episode of 2018 Farm Bill Uncertainty!

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Id imagine the death of a 4 year old involving d8 didn’t bode well in the VA case

I’m pretty sure the judge in the Indiana case was a partner in one of the firms* that the plaintiffs are using

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