This article explores the author's experience with legally available THC beverages and raises questions about the legal discrepancies surrounding cannabis consumption.
In November 2023, police killed 16-year-old Randall Adjessom while looking for marijuana in his house. Meanwhile, you can probably buy THC at your local grocery store. Recently, I got stoned. Only, I got my buzz from off the shelf at my local grocery store — THC in a can. I’ve never cared much for weed, but I was born with the fabled cat’s fatal curiosity and I couldn’t let this go. Something labeled THC . On a shelf. At the store. In Alabama.
Instead of the acrid stench of a college dorm, the fizzy beverage gave off a hint of grapefruit and a tickle of carbon dioxide. If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought I was drinking a LaCroix.Music sounded different. Brushing my teeth took way too long. That feeling that someone in the bushes was watching me followed, only this time what I was doing was …I’ll let the chemists explain the difference between the delta-8, delta-9 and THC-A. When my colleaguesSpot the difference between delta-8 and delta-9Nor do I get the legal distinctions between marijuana and hemp. But I can now tell you from experience, the effect is close enough. Those billboards along the roadway already dispensed with the pretense.Manufacturers maybe took the long way around to get here, processing and concentrating ingredients from hemp, but in the end: This is weed. You can buy it at the grocery store and from a growing number of gas stations throughout the state. Use enough and it will make you high like weed. The delta-9 stuff contains the exact same main psychoactive ingredient as weed. My colleagues even reportedI’m not arguing it shouldn’t be. Rather, I’m puzzled why the old-fashioned stuff, the plant growing out of the earth, still isn’t. Because, if you shift the context a little and switch up the people involved, messing around with nearly the same kind of stuff results in very different outcome
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