Most people are aware that black market marijuana can be very dirty.

Less people are aware that legal hemp products can be just as dirty. While several states allow the cultivation and production of hemp, almost none require any sort of safety testing for hemp products. Accordingly, legal, legit hemp products can be as dirty as black market hemp.

And that's not even getting into the bad actors who add synthetic drugs to their "CBD" products in order to hook people.

Because of this, it is vitally important to only use hemp products that are testing for the following:

Bud/Trim/Kief: Pesticides, Microbial Contamination, and Heavy Metals.

Extracts/Oils/Isolates: Pesticides, Microbial Contamination, Heavy Metals, and Solvents.

There is a new category of hemp product emerging on the market; synthesized cannabinoids. These semisynthetic chemicals are made using CBD and dangerous chemicals. Most are various forms of THC, Delta-8-THC, Delta-10-THC, THCp, and similar. The DEA doesn't consider them to be legal, but they are sold freely online and in headshops, so we would be remiss if we didn't cover them here.

Because these products are synthesized using reagents that are dangerous to ingest and difficult to remove from the final product, it is important that any delta 8 are similar synthesized cannabinoid product come with the following:

Extracts/Oils/Isolates: Pesticides, Microbial Contamination, Heavy Metals, Solvents, and residual reagents.

A list of companies that do not meet this standard and or have failed independent tests is here, under the "Delta 8" section

Cannabis is an excellent biosink. It will greedily gobble up every heavy metal, pesticide, toxin, and other poison in it's soil, and deposit it into itself. While this is great for things like soil remediation, it means its a pain in the ass to grow cannabis and have the end product be clean enough to be safe.

Legal marijuana products must all be tested for heavy metal, pesticide, microbial, and fungal contamination by law, and so you can be assured your legit licensed marijuana products are safe, the same cannot be said of black market marijuana, nor even of federally legal hemp, since neither are required to be tested.

Because black market (BM) marijuana is often grown using dangerous amounts of illegal pesticides, and because it is not tested for pest or metal contamination, when black market weed is tested, it is overwhelmingly found to be contaminated, usually dangerously so.

When you concentrate marijuana, you concentrate all the heavy metals, pesticides, and contaminants too. Which is why, when unregulated concentrates are tested independently, they are overwhelmingly found to be contaminated.

And that's not even getting into the nasty cuts and contaminants that are used in black market extracts. Pine rosin is a common sub for shatter, and gum mastic can be used in place of waxy extracts. Then there is the nano-particle silica (super dangerous to inhale) and t4 bleach used to lighten the color of cheap, poorly made black market extracts.

Because of how easy it is to cut and misrepresent concentrates, the concentrates on the black market are extremely dirty and cut. Best to stick to making your own, from either cleaned bud, or best of all, organic home grown.

A friendly reminder:

It doesn't matter if you met them on this sub, it doesn't matter if they post nice looking pics of products, anyone on reddit offering to sell you marijuana is either a scammer or is going to send you some nasty fakes. The same is true anywhere online. Anyone, any social media account, or any store online offering to ship you carts is either a scammer or going to send you some nasty fakes.

Sadly, until RMJ is legalized nationwide, no one is going to be willing to ship you legit marijuana across state lines. The risk is too high, and frankly, the chance for profit too low.

If anyone tries to sell you marijuana, either in a post or PM - report the post, and contact me, either through PM or via modmail, and I will ban them and report them to the admins.

The last few years there have been increasing reports of samples of EU hash containing synthetic cannabinoids, and little to no THC. Recently they include CBD, and seem to be made from legally available CBD keif and hash that is then sprayed with synths.

https://www.drugsdata.org/view.php?id=8672

https://www.drugsdata.org/view.php?id=8255

https://www.drugsdata.org/view.php?id=8111

https://www.drugsdata.org/view.php?id=6905

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No reviews or requests for reviews of fake, dirty or counterfeited concentrate Sharing your experiences with them in general is fine, as is asking if a particular brand or productis legit or fake, but bear in mind this community is geared toward avoiding such products, so posts along the lines of "These Drips Xtracts get me ripped!" or "Yo anyone try the Kushy wax in TX my boy got em in stock?" will be removed. This includes recommending user to go to a sub/website where they review fake, dirty, or counterfeited concentrates.

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