Texas House Bans THC

[frigidweirdo]

A step toward sanity and safety.
Pot advocates are dangerously stuck in 1970.
THC can cause mental illness, etc., and has no use beyond intoxication. It’s not medicine. If it was, it would require FDA approval which would require adverse side effects listing. Pot advocates and dealers won’t want that.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5314423-texas-lawmakers-ban-thc-hemp-medical-marijuana/

Alcohol is danger. Alcohol kills 178,000 a year from excessive alcohol use. Another 10,500 are killed due to DUI.

That's a lot of people.

Are we going to ban alcohol?

Actually pot is used as medicine by a lot of people, not medicine to cure, but medicine to stop the pain.

 

[scruffy]

Why on earth would anyone go to the “black market” for THC products?

The market is completely saturated, there’s totally legal stores all over the place. And the stuff is super cheap. You can buy a bag of THC gummies for less than you can a bag of actual candy at the supermarket

Except for hash, which for some reason is very expensive at the dispensaries.

 

[braalian]

Except for hash, which for some reason is very expensive at the dispensaries.

I’ll take your word for it.

I never smoke it, just occasionally pop an edible. And even then I stay on low doses cause I don’t like the way it makes my heart race

The gummies really are unbelievably cheap though

And I’m 300lbs and half a 20mg gummy is more than enough for me. They’re potent

 

[toobfreak]

Except for hash, which for some reason is very expensive at the dispensaries.

Maybe because it is labor intensive---- first is the scraping of the plants by hand to collect the resin, then there is the scraping of the hands to collect all the resin together in a pot, then there is the cooking down and processing of the hash. Finally, it must be dried and pressed into bricks.

 

[egp320i]

As I understand the process, hemp contains THCa. Using some type of chemical process, this can be used to synthesize THC∆8 and THC∆9.
I have seen THC∆8 in it's refined form. It is a light colored powder, greyish white. It bears no resemblance to hemp in its natural form. I grew a couple acres of hemp one year before the market collapsed. That is what I sold them was turned in to. They wanted the hemp dried, in 50 pound units. I am guessing it takes a lot.
In it's raw form the hemp would not get you high, even the scissor hash was non-intoxicating. I didn't try the finished product, so I can't attest to the results of that. At the time the processor I sold to was the best offer I had for my crop.

true but trace amounts so almost pointless
the main problem with growing hemp is 99% of kids or druggies think it's marijuana, they steal it, smoke it and get sick

farmers would grow more help for it's use but not if they need to install a 10 foot fence around 500 acres with razor wire on top

almost need to post signs......." this is not POT, it's HEMP" it will not get you high

 

[Muhammed]

Delta eight is what it is called for the education of the most ignorant OP.

It also includes hemp derived delta 9 isomers.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The land of the free man!
I just looked up the stats for my area. My little city encompasses 74 square miles......and we have 76 dispensaries!

most of the ones around here are on the strip....in my area there are maybe 4...

 

[Paddlefoot]

every block?....its legal here in vegas and they are not on every block......were the hell do you people live?...

Every business block. Almost every strip mall has one of those stores in it.

 

[scruffy]

Every business block. Almost every strip mall has one of those stores in it.

LA is the dispensary capital of the universe. It has more than even Sam Francisco or Oakland. In Hollywood sometimes there's three on one block, they have to specialize to avoid stomping on each other.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Every business block. Almost every strip mall has one of those stores in it.

not in vegas.....

 

[Paddlefoot]

not in vegas.....

Older people going there to gamble not to smoke.

 

[PeterPilot]

A step toward sanity and safety.
Pot advocates are dangerously stuck in 1970.
THC can cause mental illness, etc., and has no use beyond intoxication. It’s not medicine. If it was, it would require FDA approval which would require adverse side effects listing. Pot advocates and dealers won’t want that.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5314423-texas-lawmakers-ban-thc-hemp-medical-marijuana/

The claims you make here are contradicted by the 1981 findings of DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young. After several days of hearing facts and evidence, Young concluded that marijuana (THC) was the "safest therapeutic substance known to man".

Young was right, you and the other fear mongers are wrong.

 

[scruffy]

the main problem with growing hemp is 99% of kids or druggies think it's marijuana, they steal it, smoke it and get sick

Yeah. Kids should remain drug free. In my opinion. The powerful gummies are a problem. They're like candy. There have been many incidents of kids getting them from their parents and passing them around in school.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Older people going there to gamble not to smoke.

older people are the major clients in the dispensaries...there are 24 on the outskirts of the strip alone....and they all do a pretty good business.....and they are opening a pot lounge walking distance from the strip....

 

[MagicMike]

Why on earth would anyone go to the “black market” for THC products?

The market is completely saturated, there’s totally legal stores all over the place. And the stuff is super cheap. You can buy a bag of THC gummies for less than you can a bag of actual candy at the supermarket

Not to mention the quality. It's a shame I don't smoke it anymore because the varieties of primo, high-grade bud displayed in glass jars in these places is amazing. A 70 year old friend who is a daily smoker has graduated to vaping THC and he says he REALLY enjoys it over smoking. He seems very impressed with the quality.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Not to mention the quality. It's a shame I don't smoke it anymore because the varieties of primo, high-grade bud displayed in glass jars in these places is amazing. A 70 year old friend who is a daily smoker has graduated to vaping THC and he says he REALLY enjoys it over smoking. He seems very impressed with the quality.

itys all buds....i havent seen a seed in quite a while...

 

[scruffy]

itys all buds....i havent seen a seed in quite a while...

Seeds are expensive now. $5 apiece. If I had every seed I threw away in the 70's I could buy a new car.

 

[MagicMike]

Seeds are expensive now. $5 apiece. If I had every seed I threw away in the 70's I could buy a new car.

That's the great irony of it all. I used to sling my share of illegal pot in the 80's and 90's. I guess I would have been classified as at least a part time "dealer" lol!
I weighed out and sold a few bags in my day.
When I think of all the sketchy, clandestine, cat and mouse shit with the local law I pulled off it's funny now. Always staying one step ahead of catastrophe; worried about "the circle" and who's expanding it and who is this new person brought in that such and such friend was telling me I supposedly could "trust." All the paranoia associated with it all.
All that is gone now.
Now you can buy much better quality for less money literally on every block. I stop to wait at a stoplight and then when I take off a whiff of mota comes into the cabin air from the last corner I was at.
It seems EVERYBODY is smoking up....and it's EVERYWHERE now for the easy taking.......
and I don't even smoke it anymore.
Ah......the irony!

 

[egp320i]

Yeah. Kids should remain drug free. In my opinion. The powerful gummies are a problem. They're like candy. There have been many incidents of kids getting them from their parents and passing them around in school.

right but our government banned any fruit flavored vapes, coffee vanilla etc because of the kids, kids who are under 21 and should not have access to nicotine.......but there are always somebody legal to buy it for them so it's a lost cause
all that did was hurt adults who want to quit tobacco which the government wants sorta [they love that tax money]

Nothing can be left to assumption or interpretation, as future courts and lawyers would have a grand old time perverting the clear meaning of the law into something completely unrecognizable.

5 bucks and can make more but it has to get pollinated somehow, indoors would be a bit tricky

 

[MagicMike]

Yeah. Kids should remain drug free. In my opinion. The powerful gummies are a problem. They're like candy. There have been many incidents of kids getting them from their parents and passing them around in school.

Agreed. Kids should not have access to these products. Same with alcohol. ATF has certainly cracked down on tobacco and alcohol sales to minors. Surely it can do the same with cannabis.
Ultimately though I don't believe it is the government's job to parent people's kids. Adults should never be denied these adult substances available in a free market because someone else's kid might buy it too.
Kinda like those signs in neighboods that say "slow down, our children live here," to which I'm usually thinking "how about a sign for YOU that says KEEP YOUR FUCKING CHILDREN OUT OF MY STREET!"