Hey hey everyone,
This profession and community has evolved so incredibly over the last ten years that it’s almost impossible to believe. This forum and GLG have generated a huge amount of content, and if you haven’t seen me contributing for a while it’s because I’ve been pursuing other avenues as a change of pace…operating with a singular focus for so long can get mentally poisonous.
That said, to all the folks I haven’t interacted with before; Howdy, my name is Lejen…
I got out of the Navy in 2012 all battered and not down with the pile of meds the VA would give me. By the end if 2012 I was learning about growing, making edibles, making concentrates(I immediately fell in love with oil), and fighting for local access in Monterey, CA because dispensary products in Santa Cruz were hella expensive and Monterey Co had zero access.
In Christmas time of 2014 there was a big backup of shipping in LA, kind of like now, which dried up the supply of single use butane canisters. My brother helped me begin buying butane directly from manufacturers and that’s how Imperial Gas got started. I had opportunities to work with Cannacraft in Santa Rosa, and Altai Chocolates in Salinas, while also beginning research on absorbents for product improvement and pesticide remediation.
When I moved to Colorado late 2016, absorbents had…absorbed…all of my attention. I would study white papers until 1am, then wake up at 3am realizing part of one paper could be used in novel ways from a second paper, shit like that. It became clear that the solvent side of the industry, and what would become media supply, could be under the same roof. Through this Carbon Chemistry as a company was born. Dustin and I had worked on a consortium od suppliers but the most important part of that relationship was this forum.
We had been supplying operators with absorbent mostly for distillate improvement but had heard of people putting Carbon or silica in their columns…suddenly Indofab and Waxplug pop up with CRC on the forum and the absorbent landscape shifted dramatically. In 2016 I had to beg people to try using clay in their process(with limited success), by 2019 people would tell me that clay is obviously SOP…crazy. When Summit and Victor were helping the development of MagSilPR the only commercially available product was $275/kg assuming you could even get access. By 2019, MagSilPR was helping unfuck hot oil for 13 cents a gram or less.
All that said, shoot me some questions if you like!
