All About Marijuana Concentrates

 If you’ve ever been curious about concentrates, you’re not alone. Though small, these bad boys are potent. Concentrates are pretty much the cannabis plant, with just the terpenes and cannabinoids. It’s basically everything people want in the plant. It’s something that people with higher tolerances go towards since less is more with it. 

Concentrates that have different consistencies and methods of extraction that offer various components. Crumble, Shatter, sauce, live resin, and budder are all different kinds, but they utilize various methods of extraction, and there are different ways to do this. Concentrates get made with solvents involved, or without solvents. Here are some of the most common methods of cannabis extraction for concentrates. 

BHO 

This stands for butane has oil, since butane issued to create this. Many concentrates get made with this, and there are different extraction methods including closed loop, open blasting, and is something that helps load up your plant and then gets a butane blast. Open blasting is basically where plant material gets loaded, then butane blasts this. It’s dangerous, but it offers a very high potency. 

Usually, closed-loop systems are used, since this makes sure that it doesn’t get dangerous or hurt others. This kind of extraction also may be used to strip the other compounds, leaving just terpenes and cannabinoids. Typically, people use this too since less leftovers. 

DME 

Dimethyl ether extraction is another popular one, and it’s favored due to the fast time for evaporation. It changes your atoms, so it is the same molecular weight, but is different. It’s like using liquid ethanol, which makes it manageable, but it’s also a bit more polar, which means that you’re getting higher cannabinoids and terpenes than a typical BHO extraction. 

Supercritical CO2 

This is another popular one, since it uses CO2, which is another naturally happening solvent. It’s something that’s natural, and it’s something that has a decades-old method for extraction, commonly used in perfumes and also the making of essential oils. 

This is called this because it serrates each different part from one and the other, using a solvent, the solvent is something that’s exposed to critical pressure and temperatures, and the structures end up fluctuating from different states. It breaks down structures, helping to separate and fraction them. the quality of this is dependent on where it gets derived, and many concentrates also indicate the material starting, and these are typically seen in live resin, trim run and nug run

Trim rum is where the concentrates are done as a trim from the harvested plant, specifically the kief and sugar leaves.  They’re not big, but the small ones. They’re used more than fan leaves cause of the trichomes, and it is less concentrated and less potent. It’s good for distillate products. 

Nug run is concentrates made from nugs that are grown to be extracted. Some like to use the buds that are smaller or mids.  This may also involve whole colas and the plant itself. This is usually considered better in quality than the trim versions, and it’s made for those with specific profiles. 

Live Resin 

Finally, these is plant concentrates made from those that are flash-frozen, and this preserves the terpenes. Then, it’s cured and dried with a major effect on these terpenes, and it is something that’s good if you don’t want a solvent, but also are willing to have a concentrate with much lower levels. 

Again, this is all up to you, and there are tons of variants of concentrates for you to choose from, and those that are great to use too.

Marijuana and Vyvanse

This is a drug that doesn’t seem to have any harmful effects when you take this with marijuana. It is worth to note though that Vyvanse is a stimulant, which is used for treating ADHD, and cannabis does have some effects when used with ADHD medications. The psychotropic usage of amphetamines can definitely get enhanced with the usage of marijuana. 

What Vyvanse is 

This is a name for dexamphetamine dimesylate, which is a stimulant tha’ts prescribed for those who are young with ADHD symptoms. This is used as well for those who have binge-eating disorders, especially in adults, and is usually taken in a tablet or orally. How it works is simple. it basically is a prodrug that’s inactive and it works once it’s converted by your body into dextroamphetamine, which is a stimulant for your CNS. 

This is also a TARR1 agonist, along with a vesicular monoamine transporter 2 inhibitor that’ll enter your monoamine neurons, and this allows them to release, along with preventing your reuptake of the monoamine neurotransmitters, including serotonin, dopamine, along with others. This improves the focus, cognition, and your performance physically. Basically what this does is it promotes your “feel good” hormones, while also preventing them from being totally broken down, and it can also help get the feel good parts of that all throughout the body. 

The Benefits and Drawbacks of this 

If you take vynase, there are some side effects to it. 

This includes: 

• appetite issues 

• Diarrhea 

• Anxiety 

• Irritability 

• Issues with sleeping. 

• Nausea 

Some of the less common ones include: 

• Addiction 

• Mania 

• Psychosis 

• Palpitations of the heart, raising your blood pressure, and can put you at risk for cardiac arrest 

A lot of people use medical cannabis to help with some of the side effects of this. 

The appropriate use of this along with some of the terpenes, CBD, ACBG, and limonene, will help reduce your need for this type of stimulant, which can be a lot more psychoactive, and also a lot more stimulating than other medications. One thing of note that’s a bit different from other types of medications is that it will not interfere with how this is metabolized. 

Cannabis offers both sedating, along with stimulating kinds of properties, depending on the cultivar’s profile and chemicals, and basically it can reduce or enhance the effects depending on the type that is used. So while unlike others, this is one that may or may not enhance or interfere with the rest of the effects of this. 

When you take this, understand that it can interfere with some of the other psychoactive stimulants that are out there. When you’re taking cannabis, you should make sure that you do put these together, you aren’t going to create a worse effect. 

One of the risks of some strains of cannabis is that it is kind of stimulating in some cases, and since this is a stimulant, it can potentially put you at risk for heart trouble, and it can put you at risk for cardiac arrest and the like. 

Cannabis does work with some other stimulants though too, and some of these substance scan be a problem. If you’re going to take these it’s best that you do it under the supervision of a marijuana doctor, as they can offer the best advice in order to look at the condition that you have and ensuring that you’re getting the correct treatment. A lot of people do struggle with this, and this can be a good item to use, just be mindful of the symptoms of such when you consume this. 

Identifying Terpenes When There Isn’t a Lab Report

When you consume cannabis, there is one thing that a lot of people don’t talk about enough. Those are terpenes, the smells that cannabis gives off, and they do offer a variety of beneficial effects from this. How can you figure them out even without a lab report? We’ll discuss how that’s possible here.

What Terpenes Are

Terpenes are basically the compounds in cannabis that can smell a certain  way. It’s also found in a ton of herbs too, such as lavender, rosemary, and even jasmine and other plants. The role of terpenes is to help protect a plant. While the chemicals smell good to us, to a critter or a predator, they are bad, and it scares them off.

They also may attract certain animals to help with pollination. It’s also considered bioactive, depending on the type of concentration that’s there, it can provide some health benefits for people. They may be labeled on some products, but not on others, and here, we’ll go over how you can identify the terpenes that are on a cannabis product without actually having a label there.

How to identify

Now you may see a few companies offering labels for this, but not every company does. How does one identify this then? Well, the answer is usually through understanding the type of product, and there are a few identifying characteristics of this as well.

• You can identify this in some cases based on the smell and some of the other factors that are there.

• All strains have a unique terpene profile so it’s important to understand that it's all right there if you look hard enough.

• A lot of dispensaries can usually tell you as well what is in it. they also might let you smell the terpenes that are there and that of course is what can determine the types of terpenes that are there, and the desired effects from each one 

There are a few rules to terpenes in cannabis, and they are the following:

• If it smells fruity or it has  a minty scent to it, chances are it’s going to be stimulating and even uplifting in terms of the effects.

• If it’s musky or earthy then it’s going to be calm and sedating in terms of the effects that this can offer from some of the people that are there.

beyond the scents though, there are other ways for you to determine the terpenes that are in this.

and of course, if you feel like a scent just isn’t good in your eyes, and you don't like it, remember you don’t have to use it. a lot of times, it may not work for you either, as it cannot make a pleasant experience possible for you as well too.

In general, if you’re trying to get one that’s more stimulating, obviously, you want a flavor that’s more minty and fruity in a lot of cases.

There are also menthol scents such as those in eucalyptus that you can try too. A lot of people like that for the sole reason that it can taste and smell really good. It also offers a soothing balm feeling that a ton of people love to have, and a lot of times, it can be a good feeling for you.

A lot of times, you can get the answers to this right away from asking the budtender what they think, but if you’re still in doubt, use this rule of thumb when deciding the terpenes in this too.