It’s not chatting it’s follow-up discussion on a news article! The internet makes for some fascinating reading and comparing notes with people around the world. For example I find it interesting to hear people in Oregon and California talking about seeing PM on plants outside and then living in constant fear that it will show up on their indoor plants.
I’ve never, ever seen an indoor grower here in the northeast talk about PM in their grow tent or even thinking about it! It’s only a theory but I’m guessing the drier summer air in the west has evolved PM strains that can function in lower humidity. The PM we have here is accustomed to humid summer air and therefore doesn’t show up inside where humidity is lower. All you have to do here is keep humidity reasonable and you’ll never see PM in your grow tent.
It’s all bravado. Delta 8 flies off the shelves in Texas. Making it illegal would eliminate what has become big $ ! I’m having some now. Have a great day my friend!
I have said for years that an accurate test that could tell whether you consumed marijuana in the last 2 hours is the last obstacle to reasonably denying legalization as long as alcohol is legal. Once that piece is in place anyone who condones alcohol has no leg to stand on decrying marijuana.
This guy doesn’t sound like much of a rational scientist to me - in one breath he says THC saliva levels cannot be used to measure impairment, with the next he says they’re hoping to use that process to determine roadside impairment - and also to have the government steal peoples’ babies - FWIW, based on my personal experience, Mass. General Hospital is one of most medieval-grade evil institutions of humanity I’ve ever seen - totally callous and sadistic:
A broader issue is that unlike the case with alcohol, there is no one THC level that defines “intoxication.” That’s complicated, Lee explained, because the level of impairment associated with a given THC concentration varies – based on, for example, how the marijuana is ingested and whether the person is a regular user.
Still, with further refinement, Lee said his team’s rapid test could prove useful for roadside testing of drivers suspected of being impaired.And there are even potential applications for the public, he noted. One is to check breast milk, so that babies are not inadvertently exposed to THC.
Yeah, I don’t know jack about the structure of Texas’ govt. but it isn’t clear that the “clarification” supersedes the 2018 Farm Bill.
Stephen Pahl, the Texas health department’s associate commissioner for consumer protection, informed lawmakers during this year’s regular legislative session that state law allows DSHS Commissioner John Hellerstedt to object to federal drug schedules …
“DSHS posted the clarification below on our website in response to recent requests from hemp growers who said that there was confusion in the industry about what was allowed in consumable hemp products,” said Lara Anton, a DSHS spokesperson.
I mean, the associate commissioner of consumer protection says the DSHS has the power… but that seems like a strange source to fall back on. Shouldn’t it list the state law he’s referring to?
What he is really saying is, we have a product that we can sell to the police, after that we dont care how they use it.
By the way it doesn’t tell them if your impaired, only that you have used cannabis in the last 48 hours, and its up to the really honest police person to judge that information fairly and decide whether to prosecute you or not.
I agree with the tests being a joke. It has to be foolproof and accurate or it shouldn’t even be announced. As for standard field tests doesn’t that kind of leave it in the realm of the officer’s opinion? I’ve rarely known that to be a good thing!
I can’t find 2 shits to give either. Legalization won’t change anything for me. I’m right there with you. I estimate about 10 years to grow all these seeds! I gotta hurry.
It seems that CA is not at all serious about fixing this “problem”.
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“You don’t have a real cannabis industry if the dominant portion of it has no interest in being legal,” said Adam Spiker, executive director of the Southern California Coalition, a cannabis trade association. “There’s no other regulated industry in the world that I know of that operates like that.”
Well thats always going to be a problem when you try to create and monopolize an overpriced product with government regulations.
Regardless of whether its legal or not people will always look for a better price if they are a regular to heavy user and have a limited income.
The same happens here in Canada with alcohol, weed and cigarettes, because they are all taxed ridiculously high.
Cigarettes made on first nations reserves are $35 a carton of 10 packs as opposed to $20 a packet from a legal source with government taxes. Who is not going to take advantage of that.
Weed From rhe black market $5 a gram or $15-$20 a gram from the government outlet.
Booze smuggled in from the US is half the price compared to government outlets here.
There is a pattern here that shows these industries will always be in competition with a so called illegal source, because of government price gouging and control of sales outlets.
If you are setting up a business that makes these products, with the government as a silent partner, then you are nieve to think your products will be competitive with the black market.
The internet makes for some fascinating reading and comparing notes with people around the world. For example I find it interesting to hear people in Oregon and California talking about seeing PM on plants outside and then living in constant fear that it will show up on their indoor plants.