DOSAGE -
Individuals' reactions are very difficult to assess, as many factors can play a role in the situation. The terminology within the industry can be confusing and very misleading, but our cannabinoids are fully activated.

We completely decarboxylate all of our extractions, so our listed total THC for each product is fully activated. Many other edibles on the market report total cannabinoids, but don't delineate between THC and THC-A, which is fine for a smokeable product, but not in regards to an edible.

We very closely monitor and regulate our dosage within each bar, to allow our customers to titrate the dosage as they need. If someone is not familiar with this rating system, they could very easily over medicate, which will lead to many unwanted and often less than desirable side effects.

We test every batch of products. You are eating exactly what we say. If you eat more than you know that your tolerance is, you will get a terrible experience. Within our own building we have people who are limited to 2 squares of a bar (16mg THC) and can eat the entire bar (100mg THC). Huge differences as these, if an individual knows their tolerance, can make it a desired experience with our medicine.

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Cannabis Edibles
Medicinal Edibles and Cannabis Butter According to ancient Hindu legend, Lord Shiva gifted humankind with Bhang - a paste of cannabis leaves gently cooked with milk and spices, thus beginning the long history of ingested forms of the cannabis hemp plant as food, tonic and medicine. Today, "edibles" are an important part of many patients' treatment regimine, delivering phytocannabinoids with longer lasting and more subtle effects than inhalation. On a cautionary note, the oral route results in a delayed onset of action sometimes as long as 40 minutes until the effects are experienced, thus making it more difficult to tritrate the correct dose.  Also when cannabis is taken orally it is metabolized in the liver prior to entering the blood stream (first pass metabolism) and the THC is broken down to a more potent psychoactive metabolite. The heated butterfat extraction of THC and other canabinoids from cannabis flowers and leaves is now a popular way to prepare many medicinal food products. Two of our conference presenters are caregivers that make a cannabis butter for their patients.

Video - Mothers Know Best about Medical Cannabis, Part 2 -
Debbie Jeffries, mother of ADHD patient, and her mother LaRayne Jeffries co-wrote Jeffrey’s Journey, explains how medical marijuana capsules moderated oppositional defiant behavior in Debbie's child - at our Third Clinnical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Charlottesville, VA, May of 2004. Then Patricia R. Skidmore, RN, MSN, HNC and mother of an AIDS patient tells her story. Our friends at WAMM in Santa Cruz, California are believers in cannabis butter

Video - Medical Cannabis Providers in California - Valerie Corral & WAMM - Co-Founder of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) in Santa Cruz, CA, Valerie Corral speaks to the Second Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Portland, OR, May, 2002. WAMM, a collective of patients and caregivers, was formed in 1993, especially to enable patients the means to grow their own medicine, with wheel chair accessible paths through the Cannabis garden. An epileptic herself, Valerie and her husband Mike developed strains of medical marijuana over a 27 year period and WAMM conducts research on the efficacy of these strains for different medical conditions, with a peer reviewed study in 2001.  

CBD: Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid that shows great medicinal promise. There are countless clinical tests being conducted using this medicine. Typical amounts in bud are less than 1%; an "enriched" strain may contain 4% CBD or more.

THC: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is the cannabinoid that gets all the news. Typical amounts in bud are between 8% - 20%, depending on the strain. These values are much lower in tinctures and creamery butter, and can exceed 75% in hash oils.

CBN: Cannabinol is a natural degradation byproduct of THC, and is non-psychoactive. Levels in bud are typically less than 1%. As a rule of thumb, the more CBN there is in an MMJ product, the older it is.

THCA: Tetrahydro-cannabinolic acid is naturally made by the plant. Curing (exposure to heat, light, and air) of the plant converts some of the THCA to THC. When you heat or ignite the plant or plant extract, the remainder of the THCA is "decarboxylated" to THC. A very low THCA value informs edible makers that the medication is properly converted. This value is provided by our HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) instrument only.

THCV: Tetrahydrocannabivarin is a minor cannabinoid and has been shown to suppress the effects of THC and acts as an appetite suppressant. There are present clinical studies using THCV as a Type-2 diabetes treatment. CannLabs provides a qualitative (yes/no) analysis for this compound. This value is provided by our HPLC instrument only.

CBG: Cannabigerol is also a minor cannabinoid. There are presently clinical tests using CBG as a treatment for glaucoma. CannLabs provides a qualitative (yes/no) analysis for this compound.