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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by gamache on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:34PM (#4945200)
It's surprising to me that CBD is fiat-legal; not only is it a prominent cannabinoid, it's one acid wash away from becoming THC. http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/index.php/t-351514.html

And I don't mean 25-50% of the plant mass, I mean CBD will often make up 25-50% of an extract. (Wikipedia has my back with a 40% figure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol)

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Re:Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfr... by Alex3917 on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:15PM (#4946250)
"It's surprising to me that CBD is fiat-legal"

Fiat non-psychoactive, not fiat legal. It's definitely still illegal. But it's included on all the lists of non-psychoactive cannabinoids.

As for that journal article, it's behind a paywall even though it's from 1940 so I can't comment on it. But if you look at the menus for any dispensary that tests for both THC and CBD, you'll see that CBD is rarely a significant percentage of the cannabinoids, e.g.

http://www.greendoorsf.com/menu/high_end.php

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