I think as a whole we really should stop expecting the general public, or even 99% of the people involved in the industry to understand the process. Madness lies down that road.
They DO NOT have the attention span for this stuff. Eyes glaze over, blah blah blah is all they hear. You might as well be speaking Chinese when talking about cannabinoid conversions.
I speak with retail stores and distributors almost every day, none of them know how the hotdog is made, they just sell the hotdogs. Plenty will happily eat up misinformation from d8 slingers as well. What a mess.
I mean, personally - all the decent Delta 8 (Edit: that I have seen) is made by vertically integrated companies. Chains of custody, baby! Gotta love em
I think people need to realize that online “articles” are just ads. There is always a link to something for sale. This one is at the very bottom.
The content is and always is just filler to build trust with the reader and appear as a source of information rather than a salesperson. It also is to trick Google into not thinking it’s a spammy ad so it will direct people to this under the News section and/or people searching keywords like delta 8 THC.
If it’s a legitimate source of information, the only external links will be published references. Not other blog posts or links to something for sale. Anytime you see articles like this on news/blog sites, big or small, it’s just a modern day advertisement designed to make you think you’re learning rather than being advertised to. The internet sucks now.