Maybe a pipe and lighter?I was wondering if it is at all possible to reduce the process of THC testing down to a hand held device that can be carried by officials, to quickly extract and read the Level of THC.
Maybe a pipe and lighter?
Certainly not, I can't think of anything worse. But if this equipment is carried by certified officials it should be ok - it wouldn't hurt if some of them could lighten up.
Re your testing device, I guess you need some form of chemical detector (e.g. colour-change chemical like those used in urine testers Erowid Experience Vaults: Cannabis Urine Testing - THC Detection Times in Occasional Smoker - 37341 or spray **broken link removed**), and either you can compare the colour change to a chart (like they do for pool water chlorine tests) or use your fancy/expensive electronic reader device. I would guess that just reading it by eye against a chart would be cheaper.
Why not genetically engineer a fast growing very low alkaloid strain of hemp which is no use for drugs, and at the same time engineer in a visible marker like striated leaves or some colour difference etc.
Then you would increased fibre production and have a very easy visible indication (so you don't need to do testing), that could even be compatible with the aerial illegal crop detecting systems that they currently use.
Maybe even add a scent component too.
Good call dougy, I forgot they made kits like that. There has to be some way to use similar methods to titrate THC to get a PPM count out of a known sample size. I tried a quick Google search for titration of THC but there isn't a lot of obvious info. I do know that THC has a low vaporization temperature so heating the sample in a small chamber will cause the THC to enter a gaseous state but concentrating it and measuring is a matter for someone that knows chemistry, it's a complex organic compound so I'm not sure it's easy.
However, not in a vaporizer. Since the vaporizer is a simple and effective method of purifying the THC out of a plant, 20x the mass of plant material wouldn't be a major problem, the initial mass was quite small anyways. Thus I believe the basic premise that industrial hemp has no drug value is false. It is less practical to transport in bulk form, but if it were legal to grow and transport then that's hardly a problem. Also anyone could obtain bulk quantities and easily refine it into a pure THC resin to transport and sell illegally, so it's not really the limiting factor it's purported to be.
Methinks tisn't a hemp bikini the lass pines for.
It's a matter of control. The government could never control this; if it were legal to grow and possess and process into fiber, it will inevitably be refined secretly. The government already finds itself largely unable to stop domestic growing, and that requires months, and either a highly visible outdoor location or a secure indoor location and a lot of equipment.If vapourising of THC is so easy and occurs at 149^C then just ensure that all sellers bake their fibre at some temp above that prior to selling it. That way the THC content will be much less than the original 0.03%. What the seller does with the concentrated resin is up to them, but the fibre they ship will be free from it. It also makes testing for the presence of THC simpler using the drug kits - as (hopefully after baking) there will be too little of the compound to detect, making the pass/fail criteria more robust (due to the huge difference in THC content between weed and baked fibre); this makes testing simpler & cheaper.
It's a matter of control. The government could never control this; if it were legal to grow and possess and process into fiber, it will inevitably be refined secretly. The government already finds itself largely unable to stop domestic growing, and that requires months, and either a highly visible outdoor location or a secure indoor location and a lot of equipment.
AFAIK the commercial fibers are the stems and don't even contain THC, but the leaves and buds would contain some. That would be tons of waste product, and the government would essentially be "trusting" the manufacturer not to refine it, nor sell it to someone who might, nor to allow it to be disposed of where someone else could get it and refine it.
In fact, the reason the government doesn't allow the growing of industrial help now, or even before vaporizer technology became known, is that they believe it'd be too easy to use it as a cover for a drug crop. There are tests available, sure- but likely it's a matter of volume, making it impractical to prevent the drug crop from being produced and shipped alongside it. It would again mean literally "trusting" those involved, which would not likely work. You CAN keep industrial hemp grades separate from drug grades if you set out to do so. On the other hand, they can readily hybridize and if you wanted to push it by producing questionable cross-breeds, it would be difficult to stop.
Freely selling the nonsterilized drug-grade seeds as "industrial hemp" seeds would be impossible to stop, for example. No test will readily distinguish the two. And even if it could, the seller could simply defend himself by saying he did not know. It is impractical to reliably establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he knowingly sold them, since they can't be told apart. So it's very difficult to regulate the industry.
I kind of think the value of hemp is probably overstated. It's quite USEFUL, yes, but hardly enough to save the world. Sisal fibers make fine rope and other products too, but sisal's nothing to get excited over.
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