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@hansw@mastodon.social
True buthow hard it is probably isnt the big price factor. sure a more involved process does mean additional costs but you have to understand taht this process is converting inactive parts to active. so your making use of parts of the plants that have no psychoactive properties and not contributing to the potency.
So you extract the oil, say its 50/50 THC cbd then double your potency by converting CBD to THC which effectively doubles the product (in a sense).
The other part to consider is that it can be made from hemp which is less regulated. So you can grow a ton of hemp somewhere really cheap with lots of land, even if cannabis is illegal there, do a crude extraction to reduce weight (almost pure CBD), import that to the location where THC is legal and do the final leg of the conversion there. Which would significantly reduce production costs in most areas, especially when you consider growing cannabis often requires licensing or in some cases is only semi-legal like in holland.
