The chemical aspect

I don’t need to understand the difficult chemical process that goes into making the medications I take weekly as long as I can trust that they’re safe. Not in the sense of being free of side effects, however without any lingering solvents or chemicals left-over from the laboratory. Otherwise a batch of medication could make someone with exhausting health even sicker. No doubt the manufacturer would get hit with a large class action lawsuit, so they have every reason to go to any expense to make sure their drugs are pure before they’re sold. I just wish that the cannabis industry was the same, regardless of whether or not you’re shopping with a medical cannabis card or just local. Sometimes I get batches that smell a little bit off, like mold despite the lab reports claiming otherwise. The worst are the marijuana oils like distillate syringes & vaporizer cartridges. You might see the strain OG Kush on the packaging, however in fact it’s distillate extracted from any random strain in the grow room & botanical terpenes are added to “simulate” or “mock” the terpene profile of OG Kush or whatever strain they sell it as. If you ask a neophyte they will claim that all you have left after distillation is just THC, which is an oversimplification of the truth. There are plenty of trace amounts of CBD & CBG that can be plentiful enough to be very significant. A single strain of cannabis is characterized by a complex mix of unusual terpenes & cannabinoids present in its makeup. The ratios between all of these constituents is key, & therefore the method “simulating” these strains with 1/2 a dozen botanical terpenes is ridiculous. Try them if you don’t know the warnings, then go find a full spectrum cannabis concentrate to compare to the marijuana oil.

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