Journalist Keegan Hamilton, citing a researcher, debunks the tolerance stories: ipdambae is a herb-and-tobacco mix unrelated to cannabis, what is grown industrially is low-THC hemp, and psychoactive cannabis stays illegal even if personal amounts are unlikely to be punished severely.[1]
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