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SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.

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u/NegligentNarwhal 2h ago

Delta 8 is made in a lab from CBD. It doesn't occur in high enough quantities to extract from straight cannabis plants. In a lab they extract CBD and then turn it into delta 8 THC through a series of chemical reactions.

Not a chance they made it unless there's a community of Amish people with chemistry degrees and a chemistry lab on their farm. They're reselling smoke shop garbage.

On a side note, this is also why delta 8 and other alt noid "extracts" tend to have unknown and nasty impurities. The conversion process is not completely clean nor are the labs regulated in any way.

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u/TheOneWes 2h ago

Thank you

u/West-Flow-577 42m ago

They're probably Mennonites and not Amish, if that's the case, they're allowed quite a bit more technological use than the Amish are.

u/NegligentNarwhal 37m ago

Well regardless we're talking about proprietary chemical processes; most of which are trade secrets protected by larger hemp companies.

Delta 8 is not being made by hobbyists no matter what technological access they have.