Steve Robinson

So THC Delta 9 is the primary psychoactive ingredient, but it's one of like 150 different cannabinoids that are present in

the marijuana plant there's a bunch of a bunch that are non-psychoactive cbn cva some that are helpful for sleep some that are helpful for you know anti-inflammation there are some genuine medicinal properties to cannabinoids that are found in the marijuana plant cbd is a large one that i'm sure you've seen marketed all over the place as a cure-all for joint pain and and sleep whatever

But in addition to those cannabinoids, you also have Delta 10 and Delta 8, which I would describe as Delta 9 adjacent.

So they're kind of like THC Delta 9.

They're going to give you a little bit of the experience of a high.

If you're a veteran marijuana user, you're not going to recognize it as the same experience.

But if you're an 18-year-old taking a puff off a vape for the first time, you might not know.

And because they do not contain THC Delta-9, they are regulated in a different way and can be available at smoke shops through different age gates.

They can be available at smoke shops in non-legalization states.

And one of the other ways that we regulate cannabis products in this country that just doesn't make sense is whether they're hemp derived or cannabis derived.

So you can derive CBD from a hemp plant grown in Kentucky and through a small chemical process involving heat and acid, turn it into THC Delta-9.

And it's identical chemically to the THC Delta-9 that would come from a cannabis sativa plant grown in Maine, but it's regulated totally differently.

Interesting.

even in Kentucky and Tennessee, wherever, in Maine, totally different regulatory systems.

So in Maine right now, I can go into gas stations and I can buy a beverage that's five milligrams Delta nine THC hemp derived.

But if I wanted to buy cannabis sativa derived,

beverages with five milligrams THC Delta-9 in them.

I'd have to go to a dispensary, show my license, go through a whole different regulatory process.

And the process to create those products would be totally different.

The analogy I've used is it'd be like, it'd be like regulating alcohol differently depending on how it was formed.