• can@sh.itjust.works
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    The upshot is that although recreational marijuana use is allowed in only 24 states and Washington, D.C., people anywhere in the U.S. can get intoxicated on hemp-derived THC without breaking federal law. These hemp-based highs are every bit as potent as those derived from the marijuana available in legalization states. I know this because I’ve tried recreational pot in California and Colorado, as well as 11 different hemp-derived intoxicants legally available here in North Carolina. I am not exaggerating when I say that they are indistinguishable in effect. In other words, six years ago, Congress inadvertently legalized weed across the entire United States.

    I have to try it now to actually compare.

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      I use eight horses hemp, flow gardens, hoku seed company, holy city hemp, and there are plenty more. I’m in Texas. I have a subscription from hoku that send an ounce to my mailbox every month.

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        I wonder how much a cut they’re sending abbot and the rest of the conservatives to keep that loophole from closing.

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      I would recommend THCA over any other legal high because it’s just converts to THC when cooked or burned and is literally just normal weed

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      These hemp-based highs are every bit as potent as those derived from the marijuana available in legalization states.

      How I know the author hasn’t tried either product.

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          4 months ago

          It’s an isolate, not a synthetic.

          JHW 018 was probably the safest synthetic cannibinoid and the person who invented said people were crazy to actually ingest it.

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            but why bother with an isolate or a synthetic when THE REAL THING is easily available? it grows like weeds ffs… but we’re doing nobel prize science over here to tip-toe through regulatory bullshit.

            Come on Joe, on your way out just legalize the shit nationwide.

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              JWH-018 doesn’t show up on regular thc drug tests. I speculate this is why it got banned extremely quickly after it became a thing unlike delta 8. I’m sure it’s even nastier crap than delta 8 but that is the appeal. If Trump takes over, dismantles the entire cannabis industry and makes testing positive for thc a crime like it is in many other countries, this will likely start gaining popularity again. Producing it isn’t the hardest chemical process in the world but it’s still hard. It’s likely that it will be really expensive like all the hard drugs if it starts getting produced by the black market though.

              Or so I’m told.

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        To be fair, if they don’t smoke often, it probably hit them pretty hard. I agree that they aren’t as potent, but it’ll do the job in a pinch.

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        Thca is almost the same as normal weed. It has a slightly different flavor but it is weed, and a lot of the time good weed.

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        That’s because Delta-9 THC, the compound we have always known as plain ol’ THC, begins as THC-A.
        There are two forms of what is called ‘hemp’: industrial hemp, which has been bred for things like fibre, and the “legal classification that is hemp”.

        The legal classification varies depending on region, however it requires the plant to have a very low amount of THC (usually something around 0.2%).

        The farm bill added various loopholes, which allowed for high THC-A and low THC samples to pass legally as hemp. Though it is still cannabis and always has been, the plant has just been tested long before the harvest and before the THC-A has had time to convert to THC.
        Once the weed packs arrive at the shop, I guarantee to you that enough THC-A has converted to THC that it no longer would be classed as hemp. I love the hilarity of it all.