Here’s the intro to the story that can be read in its entirety at https://www.weedweek.com/stories/could-cookies-thca-gambit-pay-off/ but there is a paywall
A week ago, the country’s best known cannabis brand launched “Cookies on Demand,” a service that mails branded flower, concentrates and other products to consumers in 14 states. As many WeedWeek readers are aware, there’s no legal way to sell state-legal weed across state lines. So, what’s going on here?
Cookies is selling “hemp THCa flower,” under a controversial interpretation of the 2018 federal Farm Bill, which legalized hemp. In recent years, companies have exploited a loophole in the same law to manufacture Delta-8 THC and other intoxicating compounds from hemp, which, per federal law, isn’t allowed to contain more than 0.3% THC. Selling hemp THCa flower across state lines involves what one lawyer described as a “pinhole,” within that loophole.
But it’s also a fast growing business and Cookies wants in. PLUS: Meet a thriving THCa entrepreneur in San Antonio, Texas…
Sean Hocking
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