If a government decided to use the glgc standards to make a new certification/marketing system (but like organic tho) wouldnt it make the glgc certification obsolete? They could steal your system in the public interest and use it to funnel money to the corrupt system they hold so dear.
Surely somebody would be left holding the bill of organizing and publishing all the information. That in itself has value. Isnt the $50 test fee for example supposed to pay for all the organizing and publishing of the info etc?
For you to give it out for free is very humble imo
Thank you brother
Nailed it! Have to start somewhere, this handbook is just that. The beginning.
I personally call THC products… Cannabis (common nomenclature, at least throughout my career). and hemp/hemp. Absolutely a valid point, will make the delineation for the advanced handbook. Appreciate your input.
I disagree. Hemp and Marijuana are BOTH cannabis. It should not matter which is the dominant cannabinoid, we are talking about the extraction of cannabis. Does one have to change how they extract if it is high THC biomass compared to high CBD biomass? No. So why use different words to describe the plant ( which only serves to unnecessarily confuse and misinform people)?
This differentiating hemp as some kind of different type of plant drives me crazy. We work with cannabis, no matter the dominant cannabinoid. Making them different is only serving to confuse the woefully uneducated (a majority of the world’s population). Who cares if it’s hemp or marijuana?! IT’S ALL STILL JUST CANNABIS!
Now, if one had to change how the oleoresin is extracted based on the dominant cannabinoid, I can see where the distinction is needed, but that is not the case. Please, do not change out the word cannabis for hemp or Marijuana.
Haven’t read the handbook, yet, but I will. I also want to say that I really hope to not see the word “oil” anywhere in the manual referencing the extracted oleoresin of cannabis. It is not oil, and if the manual states that it is, we are only contributing to the misinformation/mislabeling so prevalent in our industry (like the whole hemp is not cannabis bullshit).
If we want to start standardizing cannabis extraction, appropriate and accurate nomenclature is the first place to start. Oleoresin is not oil, and hemp is cannabis. End rant.
Incorrect, there is a need for different extraction methods and equipment depending on if you’re extracting THC or Hemp. Absolutely.
If you’re a hemp processor…would you spend 200k on a (normal C1D1 scale) hydrocarbon extractor to process large quantities of hemp biomass for crude? Or an ethanol, extraction system?
If you’re a recreational THC processor and your goal is to produce THC live resin… would you utilize an ethanol extraction centrifuge for that process? Or would a centrifuge be more likely in the process of hemp biomass?
There are absolutely differences. No question there.
THC & Hemp are both Cannabis. And where processes needed to be delineated, they were.
I would buy a hydrocarbon if I’m making live resin thc or cbd. The products you can make with ethanol are not the same as hydrocarbon based extracts. For example I could make thc or cbd vape pens that taste much better with hydrocarbons. With ethanol I might be able to produce more but the terps are gone
Absolutely agree. But we wouldn’t purchase a (normal scale) hydrocarbon system if our goal was mass hemp biomass extraction. That’s where the delineation was made in the handbook. While utilizing “THC-Rich” and “hemp” biomass as the nomenclature under the general term of “Cannabis Extraction”.
I guess what I’m saying is the consistency is what would determine what I use, not wether it’s cbd or thc. Even for large scale, if they want bulk cbd shatter for example I would still use hydrocarbons
If some states or licensees are only allowed to work with specifically hemp biomass, then why not address it? The way a rec processor extracts high CBD biomass may be totally different than how a hemp processor extracts - why only show one way? The way this manual is written sounds like they are including all ways, solventless and solvent-based
Something that would be addressed in a more in-depth handbook like the advanced. Adding much more detail to each section, from individuals who are “the best” in that field. Is the plan
Not as good as thc rosin. But im experimenting with different terp profiles of broad spectrum and full spectrum cbd extracts to dial it in. The CBD strains have different terp profiles but contain mostly the same terps, im a nerd im really into it
