“We’re moving away from the plant at this point, and at the end of the day we don’t know what the public health consequences are of a lot of it,” says Cooper. Those products include everything from gummies loaded up with hemp-derived delta-8 to vapes containing synthetic THC-O acetate-a compound that is, anecdotally, way stronger than THC.
You have all these products that are emerging,” says Ziva Cooper, director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative. “I think that people are curious, and entrepreneurs and companies are looking for interesting ways to reach different markets or consumers. But you should know there isn’t really a solid system for regulating products made from these compounds. What that means for the consumer in the meantime: Even if weed isn’t legal where you live, there are a ton of weedlike products available for purchase, even ones with psychoactive compounds. But until then, it’s kind of a free-for-all. The current farm bill expires a year from now, in September 2023, and Howard guesses that a new farm bill could get rid of the loophole. And most of the cannabinoids that can be derived from marijuana can be found in hemp, too. The farm bill states that anything derived from hemp is legal as long as the final product contains less than the limit of THC.
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