It will make you very high. Not necessarily in the same manner or experience that "normal cannabis" does but most of those products do contain synthetic terpenes and isomers of delta-9 or what they market as "delta-10" or other product names. Paired with CBD in the admixture they can approximate the natural cannabis experience
Can somebody else confirm this? This stuff was and sometimes still is freely available in Europe, and so is CBD in various forms.
At the end I don't care what chemicals do get mixed but trips from THC substitutes are not the same and not only for me subpar to the point of ignoring it (closer to being dizzy from alcohol than fun creative weed, also tolerance seems to be built much faster).
delta-8 tends to be more mild than delta-9, but it definitely does the job. the bigger issue with delta-8 is you can only find it in extract form (i.e. vape pens), and it's hard to find a quality brand that doesn't taste like shit.
another issue the article doesn't mention is the thca loophole.
the farm bill only concerns itself with straight delta-9 thc, and as it turns out most weed has very little delta-9.
most weed is high in thca and fairly low in delta-9 thc. the thc-a is converted to delta-9 thc through decarboxylation by heat -- when you smoke, vape, or cook the flower, the thc-a become delta-9 thc.
because of this, i can visit a hemp shop here in indiana where i buy what seems to just be plain old weed of pretty decent quality. it's labeled as thc-a and costs about $250/oz.
There's tons of delta 8, 10 and 11 vapes flooding gas stations and smoke shops, my feeling is that they only provide about 30-60% of the intensity and duration as 9 does. If it's named "Chapo" it has to be good, right?
i mean, it's a 9 minute round-trip to the hemp shop, vs just shy of 9 hours round-trip to the nearest weed shop in michigan. the thc-a super silver haze i'm smoking now is indistinguishable from a solid mid-tier sativa found in any recreational state weed shop. the prices here are on-par with washington and way less than california.
