Cannabinoids are substances that are produced both in plants and in the human body and a responsible for some but not all of the effects that you experience in cannabis and some of the other effects may be due to things like terpenoids and flavonoids.
Why do cannabinoids are one type of cannabinoid and endocannabinoid the ones that are produced by plants the Canada plant to produce really significant amounts of this viscous resin and when you look at it close up shot of the surface of a cannabis plant you can actually physically see another phytocannabinoid accumulating in the resin plant with a ball on the end and that’s where the phytocannabinoid actually cute lights. For the THC and CBD beer in his reading lamps are very similar class of substances but what’s really interesting about them is that they’re made naturally in the human body back in the 80s.
When I was a little kid we used to see these commercials this is your brain and this is your brain on drugs you stupid two eggs in a frying pan. Now we learn was that we actually didn’t even know that there were things called endocannabinoids or something called and endocannabinoids system in our bodies that the natural architecture for interacting with cannabinoids and that’s actually the reason that humans have such strong interactions with cannabinoids.
Is because we have is natural architecture in our bodies to interact with them cannabinoid system is a network of receptors in our body docking sites that cannabinoids connect with and cause all of the different things to experience from him let’s talk a little bit about THC and CBD and CBN are often referred to as the major cannabinoids does Ross in the most prevalent CBC maybe should be called a major cannabinoid these days as well because it’s present in almost every sample.
CBD tHC and CBD are a lot of interested people right now ratios 121 and 221 and 15 to 1:20 to 1 matters it matters how much THC is because those are specific for specific elements 1 CBD to THC cannabis flower or tincture for example maybe good for addressing one thing like seizure control where a one-to-one or a 2 to 1 CBD to THC substance might be the best thing for pain relief applications he asked a lot is is there anything you can do during the growing stages of the plant to change it from a THC plant to a CBD plant you know I’ve been asked is there a nutrient can I change the light can I do anything to it to change that THC plant to plant a plant is THC dominant or cvd diamond is actually determined by genetics.
So if it’s a 15% THC 15% CBD plant the fact that you can change is the total accumulation of the plant so that can be affected by growing conditions you have a plant doesn’t have the right growing conditions nutrients Soil and Water so that is something that you can affect now there’s three main types of cannabinoid ratio that you can consider theirs cannabis at very high THC very high CBD and right in the middle there’s cannabis where you have equal amounts of THC and CBD and again high CBD or equal amounts of the two is it turning by genetics at the plant.
THC is probably the cannabinoid that we’re all the most familiar with the one that’s been talked about the most it’s the one that for a long time more than that now which will talk about throughout this presentation today talk a lot about THC effects you know THC is the main psychoactive or intoxicating component in cannabis when we talked about that indicate that there’s a shift right in the way you feel in your emotional state when you consume THC.
Two in a few different ways up there you’ll see THC delta-9 THC delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol so those are all the same thing the most abundant CBD oil today about THC is it actually exist in different forms in the plant so you actually have THC acid and THC is the form that you find you put something in your pipe and smoke it you’re actually doing some chemistry converting. THC teach the acid to THC almost patients about THC asking THC in a lot more about THC.
THC acid is just coming into our purview as something that were interested in, like I said before it’s been heated that means in the growing plant or in dried material is he on the Shelf in a jar dispensary that’s the form that most of it is in the conversion of THC acid to THC is called decarboxylation I like the word activation work and I think it’s a little bit more intuitive so you’ll hear me use the term activation and decarboxylation interchangeably also occur over time so as your cannabis it’s in that jar you can actually have some of that conversion as well so it’s not entirely stable.
I’m making it available for those experiences that you’re most accustomed to carboxylation of THC acid to THC in a lot of people are interested in that because they’re making their own medicine at home if you my best advice is to heat your raw cannabis no don’t put it into butter first but just the rock cannabis itself on a baking sheet in the oven so if you pre-heat your oven to 212 degrees Fahrenheit and you didn’t keep it in a thin layer to make sure that the heat can actually penetrate all the material needed for 90 minutes and you’ll have great the acid to THC conversion just exist we have it how do you convert one to the other.
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