{"id":151153,"date":"2022-05-07T18:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=151153"},"modified":"2022-05-07T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:08:04","slug":"to-experiment-or-not-with-delta-8-laced-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/to-experiment-or-not-with-delta-8-laced-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"To Experiment Or Not With Delta 8 Laced Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the ever-growing world of psychotropic drugs, entrepreneurs and the chemists they hire are often looking for a loophole. As soon as the Federal or State government declares a certain drug illegal, and naturally, in the process, they must define in precise, scientific terms, the exact chemical composition of the drug.<\/p>

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After doing so, most people selling drugs just go ahead and risk selling them and hope they don’t get arrested. After all, there’s big money in recreational drugs.<\/p>

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But there’s an alternative to risk selling illegal drugs, and that alternative is to slightly change the chemical composition of the drug.<\/p>\n

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There are literally hundreds of designer drugs that remain legal for a while until law enforcement and health officials notify legislators of the new substance, and then the cat and mouse game ends temporarily as the legislators make the new drug illegal.<\/p>\n

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So what exactly is Delta 8, and how does it potentially affect you?<\/p>

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A potential loophole?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2018, former President Donald Trump signed into law the agricultural improvement act of 2018, which removed the selling of hemp products from the list of drugs officially labeled a controlled substance by the Federal government.<\/p>\n

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In case you are wondering why there are so many CBD products for sale almost everywhere, it’s because of this act, which allowed hemp and hemp products to be sold as long as they contain less than 3 percent of a substance in marijuana and hemp products called Delta 9.<\/p>\n

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If you are a marijuana lover, Delta 9 is what gets you high from smoking or eating marijuana.<\/p>\n

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We are sorry for being so technical, but unfortunately, technicalities as at the heart of understanding Delta 8.<\/p>\n

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Hemp and marijuana plants have dozens of cannabinoids in them, but up to the last few years, Delta 9, was the only one really important to consumers of such products.<\/p>\n

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After the 2018 Farm Bill was signed, however, hemp entrepreneurs began to experiment with another cannabinoid called Delta 8.<\/p>\n

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If you are a savvy hemp consumer, you may have heard of Delta 8 by its street name is marijuana light.<\/p>\n

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Delta 8 will also get you high, but not nearly as much as marijuana\/hemp substances containing Delta 9.<\/p>\n

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So what’s the big difference?<\/p>\n

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The difference is that the 2018 farm bill<\/a> did not mention Delta 8 in any manner, so the logic, from these savvy entrepreneurs is that if they took Hemp with .3 levels of<\/p>\n

Delta 9 in them, and chemically enhanced them to have fairly high levels Delta 8, then they should be legal, right? You can read more<\/a> about that here.<\/p>\n

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Wrong, because the 2018 Farm Bill still gave the FDA permission to control all .03 levels of hemp products, and the FDA subsequently turned around and made it illegal.<\/p>\n

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The three levels of hemp\/marijuana products for sale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the federal government now rarely steps in, unless someone has tons of illegal marijuana\/hemp to sell, there are three general levels of products for sale:<\/p>\n

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