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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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Weed is still federally schedule 1. It is not 'fucking legal' in any cognizable sense.
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Which is why as someone in the industry told me dispensaries in states that allow and regulate the sale of cannabis will usually only take cash because they fear their profits being seized by legal fiat and so there is uncertainty there and risk they prefer to avoid which I understand. I think ∆9-THC is used by many people to self-medicate (I was one) for various reasons and to various degrees and success. But other cannibinoids like CBD, CBN, CBG, ∆8-THC and others do not require ∆9-THC in their manufacture and thus are federally legal (currently) under the U.S. Farm Bill. Not only did I stop using ∆9-THC in any quantity or form once I discovered these other cannibinoids, but I wonder if I would have used cannabis flower for the length of time that I did if the restrictions around researching a scheduled drug that prevented these natural cannibinoids from being identified and studied earlier weren't in place.
Given that there is always going to be a black market where there is demand for an illicit or banned good there is definitely a money and power angle to drug policy in the U.S. as well as a harm reduction angle.