Comment by mkatx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mkatx | Hacker News Reader

Just legalize it.. There's so much to say..

Yeah, you can buy thc-a hemp legally in most places, as it's federally legal, and few states restrict it specifically.

But.. just a couple notes to keep in mind:

This is indeed a grey area, even if it seems explicitly legal. Thc-a, through time, heat, oxygen, etc, WILL degrade into federal illegal THC. So if you buy a jar of thca hemp, the thca will turn into THC over time, and potentially rise above the legal limit of THC percentage.

This could mean, in the worse case scenario, that if they confiscate your legally purchased hemp, and test it, then they could charge you for illegal cannabis possession because it has more than the allowed thc, and therefore is not legal hemp.

Also, I've asked at hemp stores, and was told no.. But indeed, some growers spray thca liquid crystal and even non-cannabis derived terpenes on their bud. Pretty shady imo..

This market, although a legal victory, is actually a detriment to the industry and legalization as a whole, IMHO.

> Just legalize it..

It feels like the US needs to just make some really basic decisions that would vastly improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of it's citizens so it can get on with actual important stuff.

Legalize weed. Legalize abortion. Fix the severely broken healthcare system. Make education affordable.

Bring the quality of life up to par with other OECD countries, then start actually making stuff better - renewable power, cheap and good public transit, fix crumbling infrastructure.

So many arguments about petty stuff that should have just been decided and moved on from two decades ago.

Marijuana could even catalyze such initiatives, especially if used strategically. Strategic cultural initiatives aren't exactly our thing here in the west (at the public level anyways), but marijuana could also catalyze changing that!

> It feels like the US needs to just make some really basic decisions that would vastly improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of it's citizens

It already did. If you are of the citizens that have hundreds of millions, you have a quality life.

Yes. Or: keep the two-party system, which degrades debate to a zero-sum game.

So which state that is primarily controlled by one party have all these things?

Hint: None, because it's not as easy as a party system. Not all voters agree on these issues.

Plenty of states have legal weed and abortion, but certainly not the rest. Health care is broken at the federal level, and I don’t think individual states could fix it even if they wanted to.

I thought Bernie put a pretty good system in Vermont?

>This could mean, in the worse case scenario, that if they confiscate your legally purchased hemp, and test it, then they could charge you for illegal cannabis possession because it has more than the allowed thc, and therefore is not legal hemp.

My attitude towards it when I lived in a non-legal state was to treat the THC-A the same as illegal stuff when it came to storage and use because cops aren't going to listen to some nerdy rant about the difference. They wouldn't even likely test it. Just charge you like they otherwise would.

I lived in a decriminalized area, so it wasn't a big risk. But I'm not sure I would take that risk in some place where they still do nasty felony charges for THC possession.

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