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I may have posted this before but it bears repeating because I'm not the only one who knows how to do this.
Converting CBD to THC: It’s Easy, Potentially Harmful & Raises Concerns About Current Approaches to Cannabis Regulation
The creation of THC from CBD needs very little workup. The process itself only requires a strong acid and heat to start, catalyse, and maintain the reaction. An untrained, interested novice with a simple set of instructions could very easily create delta-9-THC from CBD in a home lab environment. A trained chemist would be able to dramatically increase the yield and purity of the reaction products in the same home lab environment with no additional specialized tools, chemicals, or experimental setups. An optimized version of this conversion formula already exists in the literature, and is in the public domain, ready to be used by anyone who finds it.
Given that the process occurs in relatively tame environments, the barriers to scaling the technology required to perform the conversion are low as well. Large tanks, agitators, fluid transfer pumps, reactant loaders, heat exchangers, filters and metering/monitoring systems would constitute the bulk of the required hardware, which represents a far simpler factory for process engineers to design than traditional botanical extract purification facilities.
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High-grade THC from CBD would be a high value-added upgrade. Illegal of course. The Feds look at this the same as making heroin or fentanyl. But with the ready availability of CBD, a lot of people are likely aware of this one-step chemistry that can be practiced 'under the radar' with no dangerous or restricted starting materials being required, as with making meth.
Converting CBD to THC: It’s Easy, Potentially Harmful & Raises Concerns About Current Approaches to Cannabis Regulation
The creation of THC from CBD needs very little workup. The process itself only requires a strong acid and heat to start, catalyse, and maintain the reaction. An untrained, interested novice with a simple set of instructions could very easily create delta-9-THC from CBD in a home lab environment. A trained chemist would be able to dramatically increase the yield and purity of the reaction products in the same home lab environment with no additional specialized tools, chemicals, or experimental setups. An optimized version of this conversion formula already exists in the literature, and is in the public domain, ready to be used by anyone who finds it.
Given that the process occurs in relatively tame environments, the barriers to scaling the technology required to perform the conversion are low as well. Large tanks, agitators, fluid transfer pumps, reactant loaders, heat exchangers, filters and metering/monitoring systems would constitute the bulk of the required hardware, which represents a far simpler factory for process engineers to design than traditional botanical extract purification facilities.
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High-grade THC from CBD would be a high value-added upgrade. Illegal of course. The Feds look at this the same as making heroin or fentanyl. But with the ready availability of CBD, a lot of people are likely aware of this one-step chemistry that can be practiced 'under the radar' with no dangerous or restricted starting materials being required, as with making meth.