Can flower be above .3% but under 1% at full maturity?
Personally I don’t grow, I’m curious to know for hemp hash making.
@CanamoIndustrial Yes - you do the preharvest compliance test weeks before harvest, then allow to fully mature.
Most varieties will be 0.2-0.3% if you get them early enough (while total cannabinoids are <5-10%) but all CBD varieties will test at 0.3% to 1.0% if TC is 15% to 20% because the ratio of CBD:THC is generally in the range of 10:1 to 30:1, only rarely is it 30:1 to 60:1 - and even then a 20% CBD flower will reliably be >0.3% THC.
Thus, essentially all high resin flower on the market is non compliant for total THC.
That’s why the law should be changed to 1% allowable THC if the hemp flower market is to be legal and viable. Otherwise almost every retailer is breaking local and federal law unknowingly.
The 0.3% law was based on an arbitrary value which was written into definition of hemp years ago. It’s not based on good science/botany.
Hemp flower is a great product but currently it’s very hard to operate with clarity in this space. Increasing total THC to 1% would just bring it in sync with reality.
Check out almost any flower on the market - they’ll say the D9 THC is <0.3% but the total THC is almost always 0.5%+ if it’s decent flower.
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This is a trojan horse bill, presented as loosening regulation when in reality it would just blanket ban almost every product on the market. Typical democrats, always making things worse while acting like theyre helping.
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nope. finished products must be under .3 still
this bill doesn’t even change the total thc allowed for smokable flower. still .3
its absolutely dogshit
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In Maine we’re allowed up to 1% total for 2022
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10mg gummies just became 30mg for you then!
One can hope
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