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Dear Stoner: Has buying weed on vacation in non-legal states become exponentially harder since all of this Delta-9 hemp stuff took over? I used to be able to talk my way into buying a sack from a local, but now I just get told to buy this suspect stuff.
Funky Ferret
Dear Funky Ferret: Funny that we trust a plastic bag of mystery buds from someone off the street more than a colorfully packaged and labeled jar of quasi-legal “THC-A hemp.” I’m with you: Give me a dimebag of overly priced street weed any day over whatever they’re selling in a hemp “dispensary” in Kentucky or Texas.
A lot of ballsy hemp operators have popped up in states without licensed marijuana stores, and the THCA movement is the boldest of them all.
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Some of what you buy online or from a THC-A or Delta-9 store is essentially the same as what you’ll find in a Colorado dispensary, from flower to vapes to edibles. The production of these products isn’t regulated, though, so chances of contamination, getting shorted or bait-and-switched are very high. But if traveling through the Southeast and Midwest showed me anything, it’s that none of those risks stop people from buying.
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This hemp proliferation has pushed out neighborhood weed dealers and opportunistic middlemen for tourists, forcing us to bring our own or reluctantly visit the Delta-9 store. I still contend that a few drinks at the right bar can score you just about anything you want, but I’m too old for those adventures.
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