Tag: Cannabinoids
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How to Understand CBD Lingo
It wasn’t too long ago that if you asked somebody what CBD was, they would look at you with a puzzled expression on their face. Today, CBD is on everyone’s lips, dominating the conversation on medical cannabis and its therapeutic effects and being touted as a health supplement at nutrition stores. It can also be…
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Christine Smith: The Maven of Edible Experience
Architect-turned-chocolatier Christine Smith is the CEO and founder of Grön, the best-selling, handcrafted cannabis-infused edibles brand. Smith founded Grön herself with no outside investment, cashing out stock from her architectural firm to purchase her first chocolate machine. Thanks to Smith’s vision and business acumen, what started out as a “side project” has grown into a…
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Vintage Cannabis: Explained
In today’s California cannabis market, most dispensaries have a three-month shelf-life limit for flowers. That is three months from the packing date—not from harvest. The reason given is that customers don’t buy “out-of-date” weed. Maybe the retailers are not storing the flowers under the proper conditions, or maybe the flower was bucked and trimmed or…
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What Is CBN: Inside the Cannabinoid That Relieves Insomnia
There is perhaps no cannabinoid more misunderstood than cannabinol, or CBN as it is better known. Once thought to be the primary source of the psychoactive effects associated with marijuana, CBN has an ancient tie to cannabis’ first concentrate, hashish, and is now being explored and isolated to provide relief for conditions like insomnia. The…
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Breeding for Cannabinoids: The CBG Seed
It’s early on a mid-March Friday morning at the Oregon CBD headquarters, outside Corvallis, Oregon. The company’s co-founder, Eric Crawford, is breaking up a piece of intimidatingly frosty cannabis as I watch with apprehension. “Don’t worry, it’s only hemp,” Crawford jokes as he packs the flower into the bowl of a glass pipe. “It has…
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Sinsemilla: A Potent Evolution in Cannabis
Sensimilla or “sinsemilla” is a seedless female cannabis plant bred to produce better buds, larger yields, and a more potent product. Introduced to the legacy industry by infamous Guadalajara Cartel […]
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How to Allocate Your Cultivation Budget for Innovation
Since the start of legalization, the cannabis industry has expanded exponentially, introducing previously unimagined jobs like “cannabis public-relations rep” and “cannafluencer” to the world. But none of these progressive pathways […]
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Curing, Storing, and Aging Cannabis with Grove Bags
Hello my friends, As someone privileged to explore an array of new products within the cannabis field, I’ve come across innovations that truly disrupt the status quo every so often. One aspect that has long begged for evolution is the curing process. Though effective to an extent, the traditional ‘burping’ approach leaves much to be…