Steve Robinson

in large chemical formulations.

And you can take your hemp plant matter and sprinkle THCP on it.

And if you smoke this, you'll get high.

You'll be more likely to have a schizophrenic episode and tachycardia, which racing heart, but you'll get high.

And if you're desperate to get high, it'll work for you.

This is the kind of hemp product that I'm familiar with.

I haven't seen a lot of hemp rope or hemp shirts or hemp t-shirts proliferating, which is what the people advocating for the hemp industry have

said was the purpose of advocating for it.

But it's, you know, the reason why I bring up hemp in the context of the 7-OH conversation is because they're really the same conversation and there'll be new ones.

A year from now, there'll be a new formulation of 7-OH and the following year, there'll be a new kind of drug and our regulatory system will be really slow to catch up to it and they'll get better as the science gets better.

Already, we have labs capable of producing

very high quality synthetic drugs.

The more they experiment with cannabinoids and marijuana, the more they'll be able to finely tune the drugs that are available at these locations.

So it's just a problem that I think society and law enforcement will have to deal with.

But right now they seem not, I don't want to say lethargic, but just like not equipped to deal with the scope of the problem.

You know, like there's a lot of people, you know, we're having a gubernatorial race in Maine now.

And I've said that the law enforcement budget in the state could double easily and not even still not be adequate to tackle the problems that we're facing from organized crime to petty crime, street crime.

And the this drug aspect is is one part of it.

And it's because there's so much money to be made, so much.

I mean,