12mo ago

Missouri bans sale of Delta-8 THC and other unregulated CBD intoxicants

Missouri is banning the sale of drinks, candy and other foods made with hemp-derived intoxicating substances, Republican Gov. Mike Parson announced in an an executive order issued Thursday.

The ban kicks in Sept. 1.

Parson cited health concerns and lack of research on Delta-8 THC and similar unregulated CBD substances.

He also made clear that his order does not prohibit consumption of psychoactive hemp products. The rules “are not here to punish consumers,” Parson said.

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- I just found a relevant clip from an 80’s documentary about the GOP
- Which is weird, because keeping your workers drugged up is cheaper than actually treating them well. See: opium in China, and meth in North Korea.
  
  Which is why the US legalized productivity drugs like caffeine and nicotine, but not something that might slow down workers.
  
  Ah ah ah - see, you did it again. Ascribing reason or logic to the GQP.
  Now go back out and try it again.
Lmao, people are coming in to dogpile a red state not realizing that recreational marijuana is legal in Missouri. This is strictly over concerns about Delta 8 operating in an unregulated grey area, and it's a fair concern. If you have access to actual weed, you really shouldn't smoke Delta 8. I wouldn't buy anything with Delta 8 even if I was dry and traveling through a non-legal state.
- i think it's delta-9-thc that is the product of decarboxylation
Chalk up one more reason that despite being able to work from anywhere, and it probably having decent housing costs, to stay the hell out of Missouri.
- I mean the conditions are right there, in the name of the state.
  
  Misery
  
  It's really not that bad, lots of bigots but you don't change that by running away and leaves idiots to idiot without pushback.
- It's not a reason at all, considering they have legal recreational weed in Missouri. I drove through there earlier this year and dispensary billboards were all around the state line areas.
  MO has a lot of variety to the state, there are flat areas and hilly areas and forests etc. The flat plain areas are very boring to drive through. There is probably an area that would suit almost anyone out there if you look around long enough.
  
  Which area has legal access to female reproductive care?
- If I had a chance to live in Missouri I would take it. There are lots of places way worse than Missouri. Missouri is a utopia compared to Texas for example. Missouri even has legal weed making this delta 8 ban really pointless. It's like banning dog food at an all you can eat buffet.
I agree with this. Delta 8 is pointless when actual weed is already legal. It's unregulated. Might as well smoke gas station bath salts. CBD should be regulated too so nobody is getting duped into buy skunk oil.
Same here in Indiana as of July 1st, except unlike Missouri, actual cannabis is also illegal. It's ridiculous. All it is going to do is drive the people who can't get over to Illinois or Michigan to use other, more risky substances.
Do "supplements" next.
I agree with the delta-8 ban. Can’t have the natural thing, but let’s breathe this chemical we made in the lab and spray on ditch weed.
- But you can have the natural thing. Recreational marijuana is legal in MO
  
  Then they really should be banning the lab stuff. No need for it to exist except to line some chemical company’s pockets.
- I’m puffing a vape as I scroll because I believe it to be better than smoking a cigarette. Lab-made does not necessarily equal poison.
  
  popcorn lung Diacetyl can be an ingredient in vapes. Hope you are being mindful of that. Natural doesn’t mean better for you. But few things are good to use daily.
- Delta-8 wiki it is found in the plant naturally, but in very small doses. They were able to fully synthesize it in the 2010s I think, and they don’t breed hemp plants to produce it, they spray a concoction of lab produced delta-8 and “natural binders” to cbd hemp. At least, that’s what all the delta-8 is around here.
- It's not a synthetic cannabinoid...Delta-8 is typically extracted from hemp plants.
  There are also legitimate reasons to prefer D8, even in a legal state. For example, some people prefer it's much more mild effect relative to normal cannabis.
  But I do agree with not consuming products that spray it on direct combustibles and the need to have proper government regulations for product safety and testing enforcement.
  
  I enjoyed delta8 because I'm a lightweight these days and weed is strong as fuck these days. I'm more into the THCA now though.
- This is Delta-8 which has been federally legal since 2018. People are allowed to research it.
What a bunch of grandparents.
It's very easy for kids in Missouri to get Delta 8. They get it from the same pace that they get vapes. I tried it once and never again.
- I tried a Delta 8 gummy once, very pleasant mild high. I also tried a Delta 9 gummy and that stuff is crazy and not enjoyable.
  
  Isn't delta-9 the THC that most people think of wrt marijuana? If so, my experience ranged from barely feeling anything, to a mild pleasant high, to so intense it was unpleasant. (In the last instance I was impatient, didn't feel the effects quick enough and took more.)
  I was under the impression that the rise in federal legal sale of delta-9 edibles was because the farm bill allows concentrations of 0.3% by weight -- so in edible form you can make the gummy or whatever big enough to still include a decent dose.
Misery stays miserable
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