Analysis: Commercially Marketed CBD Products Often Tainted with THC

WeedPress special note: Cedar Rapids illegal CBD products at the Corner Store Apothecary are a minor yet obnoxious personal problem in Iowa. Not only can the products sold over the counter at Corner Store Apothecary actually get illegal CBD users in trouble with law enforcement, DHS can also take their kids, probation can violate them in Iowa, or they can lose their Iowa job because of CBD use.

“House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, R-Clear Lake, noted in a statement that no matter what the Legislature had decided, the state still would have been in violation of federal law.”  

“AG tells agency to halt part of Iowa’s medical marijuana law”, Des Moines Register — Des Moines, Iowa — September 10, 2017

“I mean, we are violating federal law with a cannabis bill here in the state of Iowa.”

“Rep. John Forbes (D – Urbandale) and Gerd Clabaugh”, Iowa Public Television — Johnston, Iowa — December 22, 2017

The situation in Iowa is beyond absurd, with everyone seemingly extremely full of shit save a handful who have done both their homework and their ethics reviews on basic business and legal practices, but then, so is everything these days with the fake COVID-19 planned-demic.

The following article below is from a news media release made today out of national NORML. It’s worth noting, what with all the CBD liars and CBD criminal frauds vying for control of the profit aspect of Iowa’s pathetically restricted medical cannabis patient industry.

Karlsruhe, Germany: An estimated one-quarter of CBD products commercially available in Germany contain elevated levels of THC, according to an analysis published in the journal F1000 Research.

A team of German researchers assessed 67 commercially available hemp/CBD retail products. All of the products tested were marketed as either extracts or supplements.

Researchers determined that 17 of the products analyzed tested positive for high levels of THC. “Claims of ‘THC-free’ used by most manufacturers … have to be treated as fraudulent or deceptive … information,” they concluded.

Separate analyses of commercially available CBD products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere have yielded similar results.

Investigators also assessed whether or not THC could potentially degrade into THC under acidic conditions. Consistent with the findings of other recent studies, authors reported. “[N]o conversion of CBD to THC was observed in any of the samples.”

They concluded, “In light of the discussion about the … potential causative factors for side effects of CBD products, the described effects can be explained most probably by the presence of native THC as contaminant in the products rather than by direct action of CBD or its chemical transformation.”

Full text of the study, “Are side-effects of cannabidiol (CBD) products caused by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contamination,” appears in F1000 Research. Additional information is available from the NORML fact-sheet.