Steve Robinson

The more important thing, I think, about that tweet is who paid Matt Gaetz to ask that question?

Why is Matt Gaetz asking about 7-0-H?

Well, the Kentucky senators certainly have an interest in protecting the hemp industry.

So on that side, there is a caucus of Republicans who are committed to keeping hemp legalized.

And that means keeping the hemp loophole open, but specific to 7-OH, I think it's less well understood because it is so new.

And again, like with small town cops, if you were to pull

you know, the U.S.

Senate or the U.S.

House of Representatives and ask them what 7-0-H is, they don't know.

But there are trade associations that have formed to represent the interests of 7-0-H producers, just like there are trade associations formed to represent the interests of hemp producers.

And trade associations exist for one purpose, to communicate in industries

priorities to the political sphere.

And oftentimes that involves financial contributions to campaign committees.

You know, I don't think it's an accident that Matt randomly tweets out about 7OH.

You know, it seems like it's in an innocuous tweet, just kind of saying, like, shouldn't we be focused on, you know, fentanyl and other priorities?

But, you know, there's got to be, I'd be interested to hear the story behind why that message came out.

Just like I'd be interested to hear more about Representative Comer's recent message about the importance of the hemp industry for America, because I've looked pretty hard and I can't find hemp being used in industrial applications, but...

I can find plenty of examples like this of this is a hemp product, a smokeable hemp product purchased at a gas station in Lewiston, Maine that has THCP on it.

And there's one lab that makes THCP and it's located in Shanghai, China.

And you can go online and you can buy it.