USP Sounds Alarm As Delta-8 THC Noise Grows Louder In US Hemp Ingredients Market

The US Pharmacopeia is recommending tighter controls against marketing dietary supplement, food and non-drug topical products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol ingredients, which the groups says likely are unsafe.

However, on the same day the USP published its report on delta-8 THC, a close chemical cousin to delta-9 THC but with lower intoxicating effect, a former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner who led a marijuana policy working group while there advised that banishing the ingredient won’t come any easier than controlling the use of cannabidiol