I purchased a Levo 2 from Levo Oils to see what I could extract from lavender flowers with the end goal of making a lavender infused coffee creamer. These are the specifications of the product purchased at Natural grocers. Whole organic lavender flowers packed 21-166, SAP 755919, PLU2835 Packaged by Vitamin Cottage IH08:05. I usedContinue reading “Lavender and the Levo 2”
Category Archives: understanding cannabis
Phytol
This post examines some biochemistry of phytol and why it might cause pulmonary injury when vaped.
The THC Tetrad
This post will bounce back and forth between a THC study with a CB1 knock out mouse [1] and a terpene study from Michael Streicher’s laboratory [2] The post will quickly examine some membrane biophysics studies that back up some of the perplexing terpene results and offer new clues of CB1 receptor dynamics.This post willContinue reading “The THC Tetrad”
Medical Cannabis WIthdrawal
Today Yahoo News published a piece by Lara Coughlin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan. Of the medical cannabis users this group interviewed, 59% were using for pain. The Yahoo News piece mentioned these symptoms of cannabis withdrawal This terpenetargets has reviewed a few papers on endocannabinoids and running. These symptoms are also seenContinue reading “Medical Cannabis WIthdrawal”
Cannabis Oils
Romano LL, Arno Hazekamp A (2013) Cannabis Oil: chemical evaluation of an upcoming cannabis-based medicine. Cannabinoids 2013;1(1):1-11 This is a 2013 report of the perfect European combination of cannabis and olive oil. Luigi L Romano is from Department of Pharmacy, University of Siena, Italy. Arno Hazekamp is from Plant Metabolomics group, Institute of Biology, LeidenContinue reading “Cannabis Oils”
Flower or Concentrate
What does CO2 extraction do to the cannabinoid and terpene content? This post reviews a recent publication.
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