CBD vs Delta 8, Delta 9, and Delta 10
Shortly after CBD became legal in the US, some clever folks discovered that you could take CBD flower and synthesize specific compounds from it. Before we go into detail, here is a quick rundown of the compounds and their claimed effects:
Delta 8 gives the user a “high” similar to smoking marijuana. It is derived from legal CBD plants.
Delta 9 is the compound responsible for the marijuana high. CBD products are regulated to contain less than .3% of Delta 9. Marijuana that gets you high may contain upwards of fifty times the amount of Delta 9 than a CBD product may contain. At the regulated level, the user should not feel any effects from the Delta 9 in products marketed as CBD.
Delta 10 gives the user an energetic rush, but has less effect on mental clarity than Delta 8 or Delta 9 do.
CBD is its own compound, and exists separately from the previously listed ones. A CBD plant contains traces of the others, but only in minute quantities, far below the level that you would feel them.
For the purposes of this text, we will refer to Delta 8 because of its popularity, but the same comments apply to Delta 10. Delta 9 is not part of this discussion due to government regulations currently in place.
Both Delta 8 and Delta 10 are synthesized in a lab.
You can go into our field, pick a flower from a plant, dry it, and smoke it and get the benefits of CBD.
You can’t do that with Delta 8.
Delta 8 starts as CBD flower, but then gets shipped to a lab to extract and process the Delta 8. The process may include powerful solvents or chemicals to aid in the extraction. In the end, a Delta 8 oil is produced, and then put into the final products.
If you walk into a shop and see Delta 8 “flower,” please know that that is just hemp flower that has been sprayed with Delta 8 oil. Delta 8 does not grow naturally as a flower in any quantity that will affect your mood the way store lab created products do.
Delta 8 exists because of a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalizes CBD under .3 percent Delta 9 THC. Delta 8 meets the letter of the law, but goes against the spirit of the law.
Our advice? Given Bradison Farms’ charter of being natural, using organic farming practices, and performing minimal processing, we do not recommend Delta 8 or Delta 10. We certainly can use our flower to produce Delta 8 and Delta 10 products, but we refuse to.