I mean technically THC is already federally illegal. I would love to hear an expert opinion.
its a pretty funny story. it basically happened by accident and incompetence. it could've only ever happened under the trump administration, because literally any other administration would actually
read the legal text before signing it. trump just saw "farm bill 2018" and signed it. because hes stupid.
the idea was to expand the hemp market in america. it made hemp containing THC under a certain threshold legal, and not part of Schedule I, which opened up a legal grey area already inhabited by CBD. scientists figured out you could extract delta-8 THC (delta-9 THC is the "bad" one) from hemp plants and sell it like CBD. Delta-8 THC could be considered an analog drug of d9, but i guess since it was extracted from actual hemp plants containing less than a certain amount of d9 THC (and not actually synthesized), it was...
legal.
its kind of stupid that theyre going after this stuff, because its basically diet weed. meanwhile, scientists figured out how to extract 7-hydroxymitragynine from kratom plants and started selling
that over the counter. and people are getting addicted to that now too.
but basically the 2018 farm bill blew open the legal/grey market and they wanna put the toothpaste back in the tube
as someone with a medical marijuana card, i do not touch d8 products. i dont trust them