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What are you on about? adding a word in front another word doses not mean you can just reduce it back donw to the original word. These are not fractions.

The word synthetic has a defined meaning: made by a chemical synthesis; especially to imitate a natural product.

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No. CBD is a compound. Whether that is made syntheically or not is not relevant

We'll I'm going to politely disagree with you on whether synthetic is relevant or not. BigPhrama has mad an industry of making synthetic versions of naturally occurring compounds that they now own the patents on while keeping the naturally occurring compounds scheduled so they get all the monies. Being able to isolate and extract specific compounds from naturally occurring compounds does not mean you get to patent it. There's a huge difference.

the original language was ambiguous.

e.g.:

"A synthetic form of the molecule cannabidiol, a molecule which is also known as CBD" is structurally the same but less ambiguous because of the addition of additional words..

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