Last Week’s Hemp Commentary
Quantifying THC fundamental to cannabis oversight
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), overseen by the Commerce Department and housed at SUNY – Albany, published an analysis of smokable floral hemp and found that 93% of the 53 flower samples exceeded 0.3% THC.
“Over 90% of the samples analyzed by NIST were determined to have a total delta-9-THC mass fraction above 0.3 % even though samples were being marketed as hemp,” says the report, published in March in the Journal of Forensic Chemistry. “Surprisingly, often the associated online documentation reported total ?9-THC mass fractions of =0.3 %.”
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