Chad Frey, founder of flowerz, a Tennessee startup that makes a variety of consumable hemp products, wants to tell those suffering souls about the Hemp Farming Act of 2018.
To make an 80+ years story short, cannabis prohibition started in the US in 1937, ostensibly because Congress worried people were getting high .
Whatever Congress was trying to accomplish with that level of specificity, by mentioning just one cannabinoid they created a loophole large enough for all of the hundreds of other cannabinoids to pass through.
Flowerz uses those cannabinoids, entirely derived from organically grown hemp, in products for vaping and edibles, as well as smokable flower that looks very similar to the cannabis on sale at any dispensary in California or Colorado.
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Since adult use and medical cannabis cannot legally cross state lines, it makes sense for a company to grow, process, and retail its own cannabis to the extent possible within each state where it operates.
To create a line of edible products Frey and the flowerz team selected producers of excellent quality conventional treats, educated them on the logistics and legalities of producing cannabis edibles, and made a business proposition.
The similarity between flowerz products derived from hemp and the sort of products found in cannabis dispensaries raises a question.
Are we a lifestyle brand, or a wellness brand?” he said.
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