I’ll admit that I am as susceptible as anyone else to believing easy misconceptions about major issues.
For instance, I mistakenly assumed that the Federal Reserve was another government organization, but it is largely independent so it can retain autonomy away from political pressures.
It’s to prevent politicians from enacting too much monetary policy that could cause seriously deleterious long term economic ramifications. So little did I know, things weren’t exactly as I had remembered them to be. But sometimes these misunderstandings aren’t exactly harmless or without consequence. When I started my CBD company in my home state, my intention from the beginning was to sell my products on the internet to anyone in the country with a valid payment method. I actually thought that CBD was completely legal in all 50 states because of the 2018 Farm Bill, but it actually left this regulatory decision up to the states themselves. That meant that some states could continue with their original classification of CBD—as a derivative of marijuana and thus subject to the scrutiny of the controlled substances act. You have to be careful when you’re operating an interstate CBD company and you’re just shipping to random places without looking at the laws ahead of time. That’s why I’m happy that a friend of mine pointed this out to me before I made the mistake of shipping CBD to a state like Kansas that has possibly the most backwards mindset on cannabis and CBD out of the entire country. CBD is illegal in literally every single form in that state, and I can’t imagine they’ll have legal cannabis laws there anytime in the near future.