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QUICK WASH ETHANOL (QWET) EXTRACTION QWET cannabis oil extraction involves freezing cannabis and ethanol before combining them to “wash” and harvest the cannabinoids and terpenes from the cannabis plant to craft a concentrate containing the maximum amount of cannabinoids and terpens and minimum amount of undesirable components like fats, lipids, and chlorophyll. Once the combination … Read more

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This brief overview will focus on “aspects” of cannabis emulsions via ultrasonication so that others may start or find useful such information. Initially, response surface methodology (RSM) was performed to optimize the formulation variables of oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions induced by ultrasound. The optimal formulation variables, as predicted by RSM, resulted in improved physical characteristics of … Read more

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As you consider the rapidly growing extraction market, your initial decisions will impact your entire cultivation and extraction workflow. Illustration: Marina Vorontsova Only 10 percent of the cannabis produced in the future will be sold as raw product in the form of dried buds, as I detailed in my previous two columns. The other 90 … Read more

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As the cannabis industry has mushroomed over the past few years, the share of the market attributed to cannabis extracts has burgeoned even faster. So far, two types of cannabis extracts, butane extracts and supercritical CO2 extracts, have accounted for the production of a vast majority of concentrates available on the market. Yet a third solvent, ethanol, … Read more

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DECARBING (The Science of Cannabis: Extraction Methods & More) Decarboxylation, commonly referred to as decarbing, turns THCA into THC. You’ve probably heard of activated THC and non-activated THCA, but what does that actually mean? THC gets you high and THCA does not. THCA is a non-psychoactive molecule found in cannabis. THC is psychoactive. Besides psychotropic … Read more