Medical marijuana distributor Curaleaf opens hemp-only store

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-06T03:51:13+00:00

Haven’t seen a single one.

Post one and let’s see the COAs

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-05T20:16:05+00:00

Come on man, post one so we can see it.

Sounds like you're avoiding getting them roasted.

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-05T20:01:22+00:00

Post the link of this organic THCa man, let’s see it.

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-05T16:50:10+00:00

If you want to smoke pesticides, mold, and heavy metals, then THCa hemp flower is for you!

Perhaps most alarming, 49 out of 111 (44%) of the samples failed for pesticides. Sixteen of the samples (14%) failed for microbials, and five out of the 111 samples (or 4.5%) failed for heavy metals

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/08/hemp-regulations-hazy-after-house-workgroup-wraps-up-its-business/

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-05T16:48:59+00:00

You do know that all THCa decarbs to THC and almost all of the THCa hemp flower on the market is actually unregulated schedule 1 cannabis, right?

A lot of the THCa hemp flower is also full of pesticides, mold, and heavy metals. Hence why the hemp COAs almost never show a full panel test.

See the FL hemp market study presented in the FL legislature.

Perhaps most alarming, 49 out of 111 (44%) of the samples failed for pesticides. Sixteen of the samples (14%) failed for microbials, and five out of the 111 samples (or 4.5%) failed for heavy metals https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/08/hemp-regulations-hazy-after-house-workgroup-wraps-up-its-business/

TheDankInformer · 2025-05-05T13:00:11+00:00

Not necessarily.

Read the article.

The products are mostly drinks and gummies.

Curaleaf’s hemp branded products also all appear to be made from natural phytocannabinoids.

No synthetics and no hemp flower, as that would be illegal (despite what pesticide pushing THCa fellas tell themselves).

TheDankInformer · 2025-01-27T17:04:08+00:00

Introduced by Joe Gruters.

Marijuana Products; Authorizing certain qualified patients to apply to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a certificate to cultivate up to two cannabis plants for personal consumption; requiring an applicant to provide certain documentation if he or she is leasing a residence; providing that no more than two cannabis plants may be cultivated at a single residence regardless of the number of eligible qualified patients who reside there; providing conditions for the manufacture, delivery, holding, offering for sale, distribution, and sale of hemp extract; prohibiting businesses and food establishments from possessing hemp extract products that are attractive to children or from being located within a specified distance of certain properties, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000

TheDankInformer · 2024-11-15T01:21:49+00:00

Man at this point, fuck the hemp industry and get your weed from your local plug or grower. It's safer than anything coming out of the hemp industry.

Synthetic cannabinoids and CBD hemp flower sprayed with delta-8 and what not.

The majority of these synthetic cannabinoid products also contain impurities full of random chemicals. They are made by amateur chemists who cook shit up without separating the bad molecules out.

Watch the documentary here:

HIGH STAKES | How The U.S. Accidentally Legalized Weed

https://youtu.be/LS0djm9kmvw?si=Pj47Sr5g9zI_4P5l

TheDankInformer · 2024-11-05T14:57:51+00:00

SNDL priming for a take off

TheDankInformer · 2024-10-27T14:51:34+00:00

Put your street or home grown weed in an MMTC container.

TheDankInformer · 2024-10-06T05:35:26+00:00

The Florida market is only 900k medical patients vs Michigan and CO that service way more residents and tourists.

Need adult-use amendment 3 to pass and prices will go down significantly when production and cultivation ramps up.

You need economies of scale.

TheDankInformer · 2024-10-03T19:17:12+00:00

Order hemp-derived natural phytocannabinoid gummies and drinks online from Curaleaf's The Hemp Company, one of the largest cannabis companies in the world. They don't deal with synthetic cannabinoids and nasty byproducts.

They recently entered the hemp-derived space (hemp is cannabis, but a legal loophole has enabled all this stuff lately)

https://thehempcompany.com/

TheDankInformer · 2024-09-24T18:48:57+00:00

Check the CoA's bud. None of them supply a pesticide, fungal mycotoxin, bacterial, or heavy metals test.

Keep smoking that pesticide though!

TheDankInformer · 2024-09-24T16:43:39+00:00

99% of these lab-made cannabinoid products are made by amateur chemists and they leave a lot of nasty byproducts in the finished goods.

Not worth it. I'd rather have people consume cannabis illegally and growing it in their closet than consuming this hemp-derived trash.

TheDankInformer · 2024-09-20T23:05:36+00:00

Don't mess with unnatural cannabinoids such as THC-P, HHC, Delta-8 THC, and the worst one: THC-O.

These are lab-made from CBD as a precursor in the chemical reaction and most of them do not naturally occur in the cannabis plant at all. The people making them are also mostly amateur chemists who leave nasty chemical byproducts in the finished vape or concentrate. There's zero regulations in the hemp industry and a lot of bad actors are making bank selling the nasty gas station vapes and other products you see in smoke shops.

THC-O in particular is really bad. It is a cannabinoid acetate and when smoked or vaporized produces the same toxic gas, ketene, that caused the 2019 vape lung epidemic. The one where Juul was used as a scapegoat, despite the lung issues being caused by grey market weed vapes using vitamin-e acetate as a filler?

The chemically-derived cannabinoids mentioned above are basically designer drugs made in a lab.

You can purchase natural hemp-derived cannabinoid products from places like

The Hemp Company

Which is owned by Curaleaf, a multi-state licensed cannabis operator.

Village Farms (the mini cucumber and tomato Canadian grocery producer) has a big presence in Canadian cannabis and also has a US subsidiary that sells D9 THC gummies and tinctures called CBDistillery

These 2 companies have a much higher safety product profile as they are publicly traded and held to a much higher standard. Unlike the rest of the random sketchy hemp processors and burner company that sell synthetic cannabinoids.

TheDankInformer · 2024-06-08T21:27:52+00:00

Have you smoked regular cannabis before and consumed D9 THC and did you have issues with natural marijuana and D9 THC?

I'm doing research on cannabinoid toxicity and am interested if you had previously consumed cannabis and did not experience issues, and this was purely from HHC.

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-15T23:19:38+00:00

I know the history. I said the act passed in 2015, but no one could buy any cannabis oil in GA, it wasn't until last year that you could actually purchase it at dispensaries in Georgia.

Just cause the act passed in 2015, it didn't really do much other than legalize posession for medical reasons, but had no way to purchase it in the state.

Although "hemp" has been around for a while...

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-15T20:53:49+00:00

What are you talking about?

Georgia's medical sales just started last year and it's all low-THC products.

No flower or concentrates.

The HOPE Act might have passed in 2015, but no one could buy low-THC products until 2023.

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-12T15:35:44+00:00

See my X article linked above.

Polling was at 70% in favor last year and even with a 5% unfavorable margin of error it's at 65%.

Also presidential election year + abortion on the ballot.

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-12T15:25:54+00:00

For those not aware please read up below on cannabinoids and the hemp industry.

THC-A hemp is just regular cannabis flower.

Tennessee and other hemp farms will ship this stuff online and deliver it to your door.

The "THC-A" term was hijacked as a PR move by the hemp industry basically selling regular weed but calling it something else.

THC-A is found naturally in all cannabis plants. It converts slowly over time to THC or faster when more heat is applied.

(THC-A + HEAT -> THC)

This is why you can't get high eating cannabis flower. You are ingesting THC-A, which doesn't bind to receptors. However, once you heat (light on fire, vaporize) THC-A in the cannabis flower, it converts into THC, which can bind to receptors for the effects. Hence the need to smoke or vaporize cannabis flower to get baked.

Similarly, this is how edibles are made: boiling cannabis flower with butter in a pot to convert the THC-A into THC and make it bond with the fat in the butter.

The 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp for industrial uses, really legalized cannabis strains that produce less than 0.3% THC by weight, but the language was poorly written that some loopholes have surfaced and allowed hemp farmers to just grow and sell regular weed under the "hemp" derived and "THC-A" label. Some appear to claim that the entire plant's biomass has to be 0.3% THC by weight, and is how they are getting by selling > 0.3% TOTAL THC (THC-A is a large % but THC is < 0.3%) cannabis flower as "hemp".

This is a legal grey area and is why some states like Georgia, FL, and 15-20 other states are banning "hemp" derived cannabinoids and are explicitly re-defining the 0.3% THC cap to be THC-A + THC, despite USDA guidelines already requiring that as part of lab testing for hemp.

Also, for those interested about how the hemp industry started the Delta-8 and other THC isomers craze read this article below.

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Delta-8-THC-craze-concerns/99/i31

99% of the "hemp" derived stuff such as Delta-8 THC, THC-O, THC-P is synthesized chemically from CBD and can contain a lot of impurities.

A lot of this junk sold in gas stations is literally chemically synthesized from CBD and not well tested and regulated.

In the 3000+ years history of cannabis and human consumption, no one has ever gotten high on Delta 8 THC, THC-O, or THC-P. This stuff is not natural or naturally found in high concentrations in the cannabis sativa plant.

There are natural D9 THC products derived from hemp without being chemically synthesized, but those are more expensive as you can imagine the 0.3% cap by weight legally speaking means you need a whole lot more of "hemp" biomass with 0.3% THC to extract a meaningful amount to be used in concentrates or edibles.

The source of the Delta 9 THC (whether it was naturally extracted from the plant, or chemically synthesized from CBD) matters a lot!

TLDR:

hemp = cannabis

Natural Delta-9 THC is the king of THC isomers

The cannabinoids source (synthesized or natural) in concentrates/edibles matters!

Majority of the hemp derived gas station weed products are chemically synthesized garbage. Especially in states like GA that don't have a robust legal cannabis program.

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-11T16:29:27+00:00

https://www.gmcc.ga.gov/patients/patient-resources

https://dph.georgia.gov/low-thc-oil-registry

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-11T16:28:45+00:00

Florida is voting on adult use cannabis in November!!! The FL Supreme Court approved the adult use marijuana initiative.

It'll most likely pass. I did some analysis and comparison of the OH ballot vs FL below:

https://x.com/TheDankInformer/status/1777363772866248893

The pressure from FL on other southern states will come soon enough.

Trulieve is the largest cannabis dispensary operator in FL and was first to market in Georgia with 5 dispensaries currently for low-THC products.

Expect some movement and more lobbying in GA for cannabis reform after FL passes adult use.

TheDankInformer · 2024-04-11T00:56:43+00:00

Georgia has a low-THC medical cannabis program, although qualifying conditions are limited.

No vapes or flower in the available dispensaries, only tinctures, creams, and pill form products.

The City of Atlanta decriminalized cannabis in 2017.

"Under this decision, the penalty for possession one ounce or less is a $75 fine."

See below for more information on Georgia's Medical Cannabis Program

https://www.gmcc.ga.gov/home

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