[fedreserved]

At least in the USA. It will involve thc, just not the thc molecule your expecting. The thc everyone knows and loves is thc 9, this is the psychoactive thc that most gets us "high". The hack occurs from converting CBD (derived from legal hemp plants) to thc. Thc derived from CBD comes as a mixture primarily of thc 8 (call it diet thc gives you a very light buzz or high without the paranoid ) and a minority of this mixture is thc 9 (the thc component that gets you high). Prior to the introduction of converted CBD to thc8/thc9 a kilo of thc9 oil was around $6 to 9 thousand. The converted CBD THC d8/d9 kilos have plummeted the price down to $2-4 thousand

[quickthrowman]

I can anecdotally confirm this, in the US there is a lot of CBD distillate/isolate being turned into delta-8 and delta-9 THC distillate which is then used in edibles, carts, and (speculating here based on the recent price) shatter/concentrates. I’m unsure about the concentrates, but it continues to get cheaper, nearly approaching the price per gram of weed (which shouldn’t be possible?)

A friend of mine has a CBD processing lab and CBD distillate crashed to about $1,000/L in 2019-2020, and hasn’t recovered afaik but I haven’t asked him in a while.