“There’s a lot of problems with this rule,” said Griffen Thorne, an attorney at Harris Sliwoski. “The issue is that when you take a hemp plant and you want to turn it into any kind of product, like oil or concentrates, you have to go through stages.”
Thorne added that at some point during the process the THC level is going to go up. “I’m not a scientist, but I’ve talked to enough people to know that it’s almost impossible, if not impossible, to prevent that from happening. Because you have such a low threshold [at] 0.3%.”