My company is in this space. It's absolutely wild. I often think people don't realize the implications of hemp being legalized. My hope is that hemp flower makes the outlawing of THC seem that much more stupid. I've made some videos about the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdVtFpuMus
It gets more complicated than you describe. Good and bad actors exist. The subreddits you pointed to mostly contain people looking for an alternative to smoking weed for a variety of reasons. Most of them center on CBD effects on the body without the mental high associated with THC. Most of the legal hemp flower strains are 30 CBD : 1 THC. CBD also acts as an antagonist for THC and can bring you down from a high very quickly.
Plenty of bad actors also exist. There are now also labs that are exploring rare cannabinoids like THCv and THC-delta-8. These cannabinoids have similar effects to THC but are technically hemp.
The laws are extremely broken and I think eventually there will be a reckoning for people trying to get others high through loopholes. Hopefully, companies trying to make non-psychoactive products like CBD, CBG, and CBN won't get caught in the cross-fire.
It gets more complicated than you describe. Good and bad actors exist. The subreddits you pointed to mostly contain people looking for an alternative to smoking weed for a variety of reasons. Most of them center on CBD effects on the body without the mental high associated with THC. Most of the legal hemp flower strains are 30 CBD : 1 THC. CBD also acts as an antagonist for THC and can bring you down from a high very quickly.
Plenty of bad actors also exist. There are now also labs that are exploring rare cannabinoids like THCv and THC-delta-8. These cannabinoids have similar effects to THC but are technically hemp.
The laws are extremely broken and I think eventually there will be a reckoning for people trying to get others high through loopholes. Hopefully, companies trying to make non-psychoactive products like CBD, CBG, and CBN won't get caught in the cross-fire.