A 101 Guide To Cannabis Concentrates And Extracts

There has been a dramatic rise in news attention to medicinal cannabis in 2013, with reports on CNN, ABC, CBS, and local publications about high-cannabidiol cannabis oil effectively controlling the symptoms of rare epileptic conditions like Dravet syndrome, Doose syndrome, infantile spasms, cortical dysplasia, and more. What it did reveal was the plants positive effects as a work motivator, as a tool for concentration and meditation (by the way, marijuana has a historical use in many major religions worldwide), creating an all around sense of well-being, self-assertiveness, and a merry, conscious, and responsible attitude.

For example, hash can often have marijuana edibles delivery more sedative effects than flower, so some might use it before bed to get sleepy. Hashed brown potatoes, brownies, cookies, pancakes, and other baked products enable the oral consumption of marijuana. Whether you choose to dab or otherwise ingest solvent or solventless cannabis extracts is completely up to you.

Companies and individuals who extract CBD themselves are realising that cannabis has more to offer medicinally than just CBD or THC, and that there is little to no reason to not include all that this "super-plant" has to offer in the extraction process.

Perhaps the most common type of extract on the market, BHO has a variety of names (wax, shatter, crumble, oil, errl, honeycomb, moon rock, nectar, etc.) but like water hash, the basic principles of extraction are the same across all of them, with the variations in appearance and texture mostly coming in finishing processes.

Butane was one of the first solvents used in concentrate extraction and is the common culprit of open-blasting induced explosions. I think making cannabis extracts will be next. The consistency of any BHO should be fairly solid, however, there is quite a lot of variation in BHO concentrates depending on how the product was prepared.