Steve Robinson

hemp that is, we have like illegally grown weed in Maine that is brought into a state like Tennessee or Kentucky or whatever prohibition state and is then sold as hemp.

And what they call it is THCA, which is just a totally fictitious invented term to describe what's in fact just actual marijuana.

And actually, I have some for you.

Not quite gummy bears, and I wouldn't encourage you to consume it, but I bought this about 10 minutes after I got off the plane.

Tennessee is one of the biggest prohibition states, or the strictest marijuana laws in the country.

It's weed.

It's cannabis.

It's not him.

But it's being sold as THCA and it's being sold in a prohibition state.

And it was one product in 40 jars up on a wall in a random head shop.

What are the chances that I just happened to pick the one head shop to stop at?

And I found all kinds of cannabis being grown in a state where it's supposed to be illegal.

So there's that loophole, the THCA loophole, but there's also, there's all kinds of various ways where tobacco shops, hemp shops, and head shops are selling real cannabis that they procure from cultivation states like Maine, Michigan, California, Oklahoma, Washington state, and sell illegally.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

So there's three species of cannabis plant.

There's cannabis sativa and cannabis indica.

those are the most common ones those are the ones that are going to get you high cannabis sativa is like the the heady buzz that makes you feel like you're you know brilliant and you can go do a painting or something cannabis indica makes you feel like you're being sucked into a couch the other form of cannabis is just hemp and it's non-psychoactive and it doesn't have thc delta-9 thc delta-9 is the primary psychoactive ingredient

in all cannabis it's how it's basically it's the getting back to the bath salts thing we've uh we've developed our regulatory regime around a molecule in this case it's thc delta 9. so we when we created the hemp law in 2018 we decided that anything that tested at a certain point in time as having a small enough percentage of thc delta 9 was going to be treated as hemp not

illicit cannabis, not a drug, and that was going to allow for this hemp industry to flourish.