We all know how hemp guys can be but snitching in public? Cmon man
Have you been able to find a catalyst other than TIBA to utilize for CBD to D9? Iâve had some success with greener catalysts, but a substantial amount of D8 is created in the process. I can get to 65:15 all day, but have been hesitant to explore more âexclusiveâ catalysts.
Before anyone asks âwhatâs the other 20%?â, itâs a loaded question dictated by the solvent system as well as the choice of catalyst. Protic solvents, for example, will produce more polar hydroxylated compounds, while iso-THCâs are abundant in nonpolar solvents.
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I posted a paper that used boron trifluoride ethanoate as a catalyst in flow reactors. Boron trifluoride is just by itself too.
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Itâs the etherate, Et2Oâ˘BF3
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Sorry, shouldnt be doing stuff from memory lol
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I think whatâs important is the combination of mol% catalyst, solvent, and temperature used in the cyclization. And reaction time, of course.
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Ion exchange is really the future
There isnât a resin Iâve found for d9, Iâve mainly been looking for this as a way to make d8 easier and inline with my membranes
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Support bound reagents in general.
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We have some gummies about to go to market. Legal said we should use the term âlegal limit gummiesâ, we are redistilling ML and getting some pretty good ratios. Our last batch was 10mg THC, 125mg CBD, 4mg CBG, 8mg CBC, 1mg CBN, 1mg CBDV. Reviews have been very positive on their overall effectiveness. What is very interesting is our third party lab contacted us stating they had some new minor standards. They re-ran our gummy and found 0.96% THC-o-acetate per gummy. Our gummies weigh about 4.3grams, so around 41.28mg per dose. Trying to review how that is possible but definitely fits the reviews we have received.
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The whole entourage.
Its surprisingly common
Why canât people just smoke D9 and dab D9? This new cannabinoid crap is an excuse for people to find new ways to get high, how I see it is people know the dangers of crack and meth and heroin, so they know not to do it. With these, they dunno anything about it so lord knows the dangers and its an alternative to D9, as back then people who said âweed ainât cutting it no more I need something strongerâ those people turned into the tweakers⌠now the people with that kind of mentality are buying isomers and other cannabinoid chemical stuff instead of D9 as its going to get them higher compared to D9. What happens when they get sick of these new cannabinoids??
TLDR: instead of people who âwant something strongerâ using harder drugs, theyâre going onto research chemicals or cannabinoid isomers and other random chemical concoction cannabinoids.
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Equal to crack ? Lmao do you have any idea how much stuff you consume or use daily thatâs made via chemical synthesis ?
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Iâm not familiar with acetate forms of cannabinoids, but Iâm guessing that any cannabinoid acetate is not going to distill easily, or at least without noticeable thermal degradation. I also know that acetate forms are prone to oxidation, and would guess water degradation.
Even if Iâm wrong with all of the above, if you didnât add THC-O, and they say you had 41mg, then they either bought some very bad standards, they mishandled the standards so they degraded, or they misidentified a peak on the chromatograph.
If they didnât do any of that and itâs on your end, I ask politely as a scientist: how in fuck did you do that? One does not just happen upon acetic anhydride randomly in some distillate or plant material. Iâm guessing and hope some labels got swapped and this was a production error.
Not literally equal no
As in terms to the alternative⌠people who say âweed isnt cutting itâ will move onto new things, such as crack, at least 30+ Years ago.
Not saying its all in chemically related to crack no
In terms of replacements yes, people moved onto sketchier chemicals to ingest as crack is bad and D9 isnât getting them high anymore
It isnât bending the law, it is actually following the law, to a T. Why hate someone for figuring out how to sell a product that wasnât legal before? Some people are late to the game, but it doesnât mean they canât contribute. Evolve with the system or get out of the way.
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Well hold up:
#1 you can distill THC-o-ac, itâs not being distilled wet so youâre not going to get insane amounts of hydrolysis
#2 he said ML so there are plenty of natural esters that could have reacted to produce trace thc-o-ac, though Iâm leaning toward a cannabinoid that elutes at the same time as their standard since this would be a difficult reaction in the absence of âreaction conditionsâ
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I missed the ML part, didnât think mother liquor. That could contribute some, but not the quantities listed. But at the same rate, the mother liquor of what purification could contribute that? The only one I would guess is if THC-o was recrystallized
Edit: Though I should derail myself as itâs unlikely the case to come from mother liquor; my first guess would also be co-elution, I just wanted to be exhaustive.
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Agreed, unlikely but in some way possible. Remember ML is nearly half plant stuffs/unknowns.
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LL Gummies 10mg THC- 150mg CBD (WM).pdf (1.1 MB)
Here is the COA we received. I have the same thoughts as you all; I have also talked with Kaycha to gather more details on their testing and use of standards and they are very confident these results are accurate. So now Iâm diving into how this is possible.
We ran the ML through our wiper and noticed it wasnât cleaning up properly, the material was re-ran several more times then we started looking at the wiper itself. The issue was our residue arm was clogged with what appeared to be sugars, so we completed a cleaning of the system. We took the semi-distilled ML and used a saline wash and re-distilled with no problems. Third party is going to re-look at the distillate and see if THC-o shows up. Rough numbers based on the gummy potency looks like the ML should show around 16% THC-o so we shall see.
If the ML does not show any THC-o than could this be from an ingredient in our gummy recipe? Citric acid? Highly doubtful but exploring all options.