A megathread where people can share their own independent lab tests of various hemp or delta-8 products. Mostly because /r/delta8testing has been banned and it is important to share contaminated products and to expose fake lab results from bad-practice hemp brands to promote harm reduction.
In any post please mention the product name and its lab result along with other information. Preferably looking for Full-Panel lab tests or just contaminants.
Lmk what you think of this thread and if you have any suggestions or if this thread does not belong here. Im looking to test some delta8 products I have purchased too and would like to share them in the future.
what types of contamination testing are you most interested in screening for?
Pesticides, metals, leftover pTSA?
With hemp products, the only required testing would be for cannabinoids to show it is compliant (<0.3% d9-THC)
You’ll be lucky if the canna CoA actually matches the product you have in hand as there is little to no traceability for hemp. Additional testing is just cutting into profits, so not super common.
You came here because reddit isn’t giving you sufficient information? How interesting.
What guidelines could you possibly be talking about here? And why wouldn’t we provide sources for basically everything - I mean, are we not all about transparency?
So you haven’t tested anything yet… but you want other people to share information with you.
Are you aware that there are other threads that are about this subject matter? Often specific with concerns about how tests are being performed and how consumers and B2B operators may be exposing themselves to risk through poor lab practices?
I’m not opposed to your thread idea - I think its always good to share things.
But it would have been nice for you to actually share something - instead of just asking other people to spend money to share things with you. <3
Not exactly, I noticed it was referenced by a lot of people previously when reviewing different hemp brands. I thought it was a very nice idea since most of my time researching the topic ive never seen individuals share their own resources. The closest that I have gotten to this is when some press officials did their own tests on “shroom” (4-aco) products found on the streets of florida and shared their results. Went to check out the subreddit and it was banned, owner said someone reported it and they banned it for being unmoderated which it was moderated regularly. Ive been on future4200 for a little bit now reading up on specific stuff related to a few companies and the people on here are very well knowledge individuals. Managing to dig up information I was never able to find.
I have not made a single official posting on this forum since I joined, Ive read over the rules a few times and what was meant by this is to try and make sure that people don’t outright share the brand/product link to people asking. Only said this because Im not sure if it would be allowed on here to directly post that and was trying to be cautious. In light of transparency though, I do think its very important to share this information. A quick google dorking of the products name and it should not be relatively hard to find where it was purchased or listed on any website.
I have not. I do have product in my possession that im saving to be tested. I have researched different local labs in my area and have found two, one being further away in my state and another being only 5 minutes away from me.
This information that would be shared would not just be for me. It would be to benefit other people. Of course it would be interesting to see everything myself but the main goal is for other people to be able to link to this forum directly or find the link here through an index of google and to be able to see that this brand or this product by this company is contaminated.
I find it awful that these companies can so blatantly lie and fake coas when the “real coas” show a lot of stuff when you do some digging.
From what ive heard, the owner of 3chi even runs r/delta8. Now I dont know much about reddit at all since I don’t spend any of my time on it at all, but these things they do are very scummy.
I also find it wild that a lot of these delta8 companies own tons of brands. You’ve got 3chi also running a few. I know the whole incident with Diamond Shruumz only to find out they also run Ghost. Hemp, Space God, and probably a few more too.
and people consume these products every day in illegal states when cannabis products, cbd, thc help so many people in need.
I haven’t browsed the forums on here enough to find any other threads around this specific idea. Ive searched on here for specific megathreads like this one but there is not any afaik that I could find so I wanted to possibly start one. Ive seen threads where one specific individual would share their results but thats about it. When brainstorming a way to possibly start something like this I knew future4200 was a good idea since this place has always been open about sharing this type of information without restriction and has very decent individuals on it. I know transparency is important and would love to add more information to my original post when more things are added to the thread. I am aware this may or may not get good traction as a thread, but I don’t see any issue whatsoever in having the tread exist even if there is nothing to come of it.
I really don’t intend for this information to be for me personally, this is all about exposing findings and information for everyone to have access to. I know people do their own tests and would love to have a good place to share them especially since a very interesting reddit community that was running since 2020 around the idea was banned.
Any, but if I was granted with the option to chose for each an every test that could be posted, id specifically want at least Residual Solvents tested for, since this thread is focused around the Delta8/Hemp industry.
Profits aside, Im sure companies couldn’t refuse service for this depending on the lab. I have no full idea on what happens within these testing communities but I know there are decent labs out there that individuals can test their stuff for. As long as something is found it can be posted here, even in any specific amount.
California’s official stance is CA accredited testing labs are not supposed to take any samples from unlicensed individuals. However, I don’t think this rule has (ever?) been enforced and many labs will take samples from home grows.
And even if it was - he’s talking about hemp products which would go to different kinds of labs. There’s plenty of labs that test this kind of stuff. Including drug labs that do a lot of testing all the time (like the FDA and DEA labs, and local crime labs).
There are also some university programs testing this stuff now, depending on where people are located.
I’m working with a national group to pull together similar information and build transparency. So far what we have noted is quite often the COAs are totally bogus. Not like a lab just derping around, but like the lab may or may not actually exist. And if they do exist they may not have tested the thing listed or they did test it but whats on the COA and what they tested don’t align.
So its hard on the hemp side…for sure. I’m also looking at all the testing that has been reported through METRC - using FOIA across the country. Which is equating to millions of data points - which is awesome, IMO. And the patterns for fraudulent practices are also pretty apparent.
I’m even working on a separate database where people can drop all this info and connect back to it via QR Code - to make the traceability side easier… but most people don’t seem to WANT to be able to have better transparency. A little over half the people I talked to wanted to be able to keep this stuff hidden. I’m not sure why - consumers probably have a right to know what they are putting in their bodies.
But then again - I can’t easily get access to pesticide testing on APPLES for instance. So why should I be able to get access to cannabis stuff.
Pissed me off that people are derping around so hard that we cannot TRUST anything - and therefore we need to DO MORE than just label something.
customers should be able to easily access QC data for anything we put into our body, as well as cannabis products.
Working in the canna industry has made me consider what concentrations of contaminates are approved and used in similar industries like foods, medicines, etc.
How inaccessible test results are for those products is a shortcoming that only negatively impacts the end user IMO