Koerta
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I like this post, thanks! I would address the point of separating the terpenes from a pharmacological vantage; there are medicinal benefits to the terpenes too, and as such, they warrant individual study after isolation. The entourage effect is undeniable, I am very interested in deliberate recombinations of THC/CBD + terpenes for designed therapeutic effect. The rosin process will capture a more accurate profile of the original plant material due to the fact that it harvests only the trichome heads. Solvents will extract the trichome "stalks" too, and all the surface oils, leading to generally more "terpy" concentrates that their watery brethren.I've found that rosin, especially hash rosin, has been my concentrate preference for a while. Especially from good cured bud. Live or cured resin is my 1A.
Diamonds are nice and it's a cool process, but I don't see the point of separating out the terp sauce from the THC- if someone needs straight THC for medical purposes, there's distillate. For me, it's all about how the cannabinoid and terpene mix of the strain interacts with a person's physiology. THC is a big part of that, but not everything.
Hash is wonderful as well, but isopropyl is in short supply so I can't clean my bags. For some reason (entourage effect?), it just hits harder than most concentrates.
Shatter and dry concentrates are what I'd settle for if I am out of my own bud completely. Dried concentrates are best for one scenario: travel.
Same here brother! My first attempt at a marijuana concentration was as a teenager in 1997... using acetone and a pipe column to wash some buds... I hadn't studied chemistry much yet, but I knew that bud resin was sticky and that acetone was great a removing sticky stuff. Fast forward 20 years and it seems the world is ready for this. :)I started off with concentrates, haha. I really enjoy manually vaping dry herb (blowtorch and a metal enail adapter), but it's a more time consuming and labor intensive process than just ripping off a dab.
I've found that rosin, especially hash rosin, has been my concentrate preference for a while. Especially from good cured bud. Live or cured resin is my 1A.
Diamonds are nice and it's a cool process, but I don't see the point of separating out the terp sauce from the THC- if someone needs straight THC for medical purposes, there's distillate. For me, it's all about how the cannabinoid and terpene mix of the strain interacts with a person's physiology. THC is a big part of that, but not everything.
Hash is wonderful as well, but isopropyl is in short supply so I can't clean my bags. For some reason (entourage effect?), it just hits harder than most concentrates.
Shatter and dry concentrates are what I'd settle for if I am out of my own bud completely. Dried concentrates are best for one scenario: travel.
"Rosin" is the result from pressing bubble hash on a heated press...the glands rupture, and their contents are collected after pressing.Yup..Rosin has been my go to for about a year now... @Koerta what is your understanding between the difference between rosin/resin or live rosin/resin
Regarding "live" products, those are plants that are flash frozen immediately after harvest, and then taken to extraction to preserve most of the terpenes.Yup..Rosin has been my go to for about a year now... @Koerta what is your understanding between the difference between rosin/resin or live rosin/resin
I completely agree, and I also believe that the entourage effect is altered. It may be anecdotal, but my personal experience has been that rosins pressed from water-hash feel more gentle, when "partoken", than the exact same strains extracted with solvents. I'm fairly certain that the extra terpenes in a solvent extraction are responsible for this difference, as I know through testing that there are no solvents present. My next test will be to dab individual terpenes in an attempt to ascertain their various palpable effects. As more analytical labs come online, more bench time will become available for such studies. :)Yes, however it's more cost and labor-effective to use terps derived from plants other than cannabis, especially with the process of making diamonds.
I'd be interested to see a study done on the difference in effects of a particular strain's extracted, filtered resin versus the isolated and combined cannabinoids and terpenes that it consists of versus the total cannabinoid content of the dry matter.
Since CBD exists more in the leaves than the trichomes, trichome-centered extraction methods might actually be altering the entourage effect of a given strain.
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