September 21, 2025  "Hemp" with Jesse Le Blanc

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About our Guest:  Jesse LeBlanc III, BSME

Jesse graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998.  For over 25 years, he provided services as both an employee and consultant on the inspection, repair, design, and operation of chemical, refined products (gasoline and diesel fuel), and crude oil pipelines for one of the world’s largest oil companies.  He also performed risk assessments and hazardous operation reviews for multiple pipeline related projects.  While working in the petroleum industry, he received numerous awards as an engineering mentor and for his novel solutions to several engineering problems.   As a consultant, he also has played a key design role in a multi-billion-dollar project that currently delivers crude oil from West Texas to the Houston area.
 
Before obtaining his mechanical engineering degree, he worked for 17 years in the aircraft industry as a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensed Airframe and Powerplant technician and as an Authorized Inspector.  During this time period, he was certified to maintain and repair multiple turbine-powered helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, including turboprops and business jets.  Prior to and during this same time period, he was an FAA licensed Private Pilot.

​Jesse also recently contributed a chapter, “THC & CBD Decomposition and Terpene Hazards While Vaping or Dabbing”, to the medical textbook edited by Dr. Ken Finn, “Cannabis in Medicine, and Evidence Based Approach”.   He also has written several articles for the parent support group, Every Brain Matters, one of which was an expose’ on Delta-8-THC, Delta-9-THC, and THC-O Acetate.  He also presented for an IASIC (International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis) webinar titled “Cannabinoid Thermal Decomposition and Vaporization”, which discussed combustion science and the associated dangers of vaping and dabbing cannabinoids.  Lastly, he is also one of the science advisors Every Brain Matters.Jesse also recently contributed a chapter, “THC & CBD Decomposition and Terpene Hazards While Vaping or Dabbing”, to the medical textbook edited by Dr. Ken Finn, “Cannabis in Medicine, and Evidence Based Approach”.   He also has written several articles for the parent support group, Every Brain Matters, one of which was an expose’ on Delta-8-THC, Delta-9-THC, and THC-O Acetate.  He also presented for an IASIC (International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis) webinar titled “Cannabinoid Thermal Decomposition and Vaporization”, which discussed combustion science and the associated dangers of vaping and dabbing cannabinoids.  Lastly, he is also one of the science advisors Every Brain Matters.

Up for discussion on today's show:

  • Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller rehires top aide who pleaded guilty to bribery
  • The cannabis industry is behaving exactly as the tobacco industry did in the past, which was clearly described by tobacco whistleblower, Jeffrey Wigand almost 30 years ago in an interview on 60 Minutes.
    • Excerpt from 2/4/1996 60 Minutes interview: (https://www.jeffreywigand.com/60minutes.php)
      • Wigand: [in office interview with Wallace] Part of the reason I'm here is I felt that their representation clearly, at least within Brown & Williamson's representation, clearly misstated what they commonly knew as language within the company. That we're a nicotine delivery business.
      • Wallace: And that's what cigarettes are for?
      • Wigand: Most certainly. It's a delivery device for nicotine.
      • Wallace: A delivery device for nicotine? Put it in your mouth, light it up, and you're gonna get your fix?
      • Wigand: You'll get your fix.
      • Wallace: [in CBS office] Dr. Wigand says that Brown & Williamson manipulates and adjusts that nicotine fix, not by artificially adding nicotine, but by enhancing the effect of the nicotine through reuse of chemical additives like ammonia, whose process is known in the tobacco industry as "impact boosting."
      • Wigand: While not spiking nicotine. They clearly manipulate it.
        • The cannabis industry is following this same playbook by chemically altering cannabinoids to make them even more powerful and therefore addictive.
          • Manufacturing THC-P, which is reported to be over 30X stronger than the THC extracted from cannabis plants.
            • This is accomplished by adding two more carbon atoms to the “tail” of the THC molecule.
              • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6937300/
                • In particular, a minimum of three carbons is necessary to bind the receptor, then the highest activity has been registered with an eight-carbon side chain to finally decrease with a higher number of carbon atoms. Δ8-THC homologs with more than five carbon atoms on the side chain have been synthetically produced and tested in order to have molecules several times more potent than Δ9 THC.
                • Δ9-THCP showed a cannabimimetic activity several times higher than its pentyl homolog Δ9-THC.
          • Also are using the same chemical process that is used to convert morphine into heroin. 
            • This process is known as acetylation, using the chemical acetic anhydride, which can increase the potency of morphine 2X to 3X.
              • Basically, an acetyl group is added to the molecule.
            • The industry markets both THC-O (D8 & D9) and HHC-O
  • The cannabis and beverage (THC-infused drinks) industries are also emulsifying cannabinoids using nano-emulsification technology, which increases their bioavailability and therefore making them even more addictive.
  • Another serious concern is that THC appears to be a societal disrupter, which further burdens law enforcement.  It is also a strong possibility that those involved in THC related enterprises are users too thereby adding to the number of potential criminals. 
  • The hemp industry keeps saying that it is medicinal, but is it?  
    • The state legislators are not researchers or medically trained in almost cases.  The legislators appear to get their information from the cannabis industry instead of knowledgeable science or medical professionals and parents who have to deal with the devastation that is caused by all forms of THC.
    • For example, big pharma is constantly advertising on television drugs to help ease the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia (TD).   A 1993 study points a finger at cannabis as being a possible cause.
      • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7905284/
        • The most important finding in this study was that current weekly cannabis use was found to be the best of several examined predictors of the presence of TD.
        • Keep in mind that 1990 THC levels in marijuana were much less than they are today.
        • How can this even be remotely real medicine?  Where is the FDA approval?​
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