ahh. well I don’t “want” to inhale the CO2 lol I guess I never even really thought about it like that. but you’re right, I guess the decarb’ed material would be better for ya.
big chunks of THCa covered in terps are just sexy I guess lol.
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Well what you said is all nice and dandy but you’re missing at least one variable that can make a significant impact on potency even if you are at 99.99% purity (potency and purity and not necessarily the same thing). CHIRAL/OPTICAL ROTATION. But that’s okay most people are either ignorant to it or for some reason choose to ignore it but it’s the next big things that will make the people who first figure out control and resolution of chiral rotation on commercial scale the next big dogs on the block… at least for a little while.
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@ZizzleB …I would not want to inhale any CO2 as well.
Capisce? Never thought about it like that.
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yeah buddy, no idea what you’re even talking about lol. this one flew way over my head.
Care to divulge how it applies to this discussion?
I would but I was convinced to have a drink last night and pop a Xanax. So in light of that, I would refer you to Google suppository of knowledge named Google search. I promise you there is a great deal of chance you will gain knowledge that can be very helpful should you decide to have a much longer career in mind in this business.
Sorry not trying to be a jerk about it but I got a headache and I’m feeling very much a goofball at the moment
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I did a quick google search after you mentioned it but no idea how it applies to what we’re talking about. Hence the “it went way over my head.”
All good though brother, spoons are appreciated but never expected!
Different chiral optical orientation tends to bind to different receptors in the brain and hence depending on the person they will tend to feel different amount of psychoactivity from it (potency). In fact there are quite a few molecules that depending on optical orientation can go from and medicine that is important and with different optical orientation can become a severe poison. It also can have very strong influence on the scent preceived by us, depending on optical orientation… Etc etc etc
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Ahh, I see. Some enantiomers of THC (and other cannabinoids) may have stronger/different effects than others so isolating those enantiomers may create a product with stronger/different effects.
I’m sitting here talking about it with our chemist. Seems like some high level chemistry.
Very interesting.
He mentioned thalidomide. Crazy shit.
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I feel sorry for “your chemist”.
A lot of people can make good money here and
Never understand how “Butane works”…
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not sure what you’re going on about but it sounds kinda insulting. I’ll pass your sympathy along to our chemist now lol. I’m sure he’ll care immensely.
thanks for your $0.02 
Good luck running down that rabbit hole. It is most certainly not an easy one to figure out… At least when you first start pursuing it. (Quite a bit of stereo specific synthesis and optical resolution is being tightly held as trade secrets and as such can be quite tricky to figure out)
Trying to understand what you mean here… Are you implying the the natural THCA stereochemistry (i.e the exact enantiomer isolated from the plant) isn’t maintained during decarboxylation?
Not at all but when converting CBD to THC some people appear to be reaching extremely high THC content but as I have mentioned in the past depending on the “harsh” condition of the synthesis you can possibly push what was 80 or 90% R CBD isolate down to much closer to an optical equilibrium (50/50). But besides that you can take most if not all cannabinoids that have less than favorable stereochemistry percentages and virtually either Force the reaction in which you make them in whichever optical direction you want or you can also resolve/separate pretty much any different optical rotations into fairly close into an optically pure product. But keep in mind there are quite a bit of things that are possible to do but make absolutely no financial business sense.
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Are you making HHC?
oh I don’t plan on even trying to figure out how to do it. just wanted to understand what it even was. I had never even heard of this before you mentioned it. so thanks 
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Well if you decide to make HHC let me know and I will give your chemist spoon… And a shovel so he can start digging into that rabbit hole I will direct him into.
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I still have never seen it documented that acid catalyzed cyclization of CBD makes unnatural THC enantiomers. Do you have a reference for it? Fascinating if true.
The “harsher” the reaction conditions the more the solution will push toward an equilibrium (50/50).
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no i am not
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Try sending some cheap converted THC to get tested and at the same time preferably at the same test facility so they will use same procedures so as to eliminate some of the fluctuations between different test labs resultstest, some naturally derived Delta 9 THC that has not been exposed to “harsh” conditions. The results will speak for themselves.
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