Active Compounds

Individual Cannabinoids

• Cannabigerol (CBG) – The Precursor the Other Cannabinoids Come From

  Cannabigerol is called the mother cannabinoid because its acid form CBGA gives rise to the precursors of THC, CBD and CBC – and what that means for content, harvest timing and breeding.

• Cannabinol (CBN) – Formation, Detection and What It Indicates

  Cannabinol forms when THC oxidises and serves as a marker for age and poor storage – while decarboxylation itself, run without oxygen, produces almost none of it.

Terpenes

• Farnesene

  Farnesene in cannabis: the green-apple sesquiterpene (C15H24), aphid alarm pheromone and terpene rarity. Aroma, botanical function, research status and a lab-documented case study.

• Myrcene (β-Myrcene) – The Most Common Cannabis Terpene and How It May Work

  β-Myrcene is often the most abundant terpene in cannabis. What preclinical research says about GABA, pain and the entourage debate – hedged and sourced.

Interaction and Effects

• Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum and Isolate: What the Terms Mean

  Full spectrum, broad spectrum and isolate explained: what the three terms describe, how they differ, and why 'full spectrum' is not a scientifically defined term.

• The Entourage Effect: What the Evidence Shows – and What Stays Hypothesis

  The cannabis entourage effect explained: what studies show about cannabinoid–terpene interaction, what remains disputed, and what has largely been ruled out at the receptor level – a source-based overview.

Extraction and Processing

• Cannabis in Oil – The Methods Compared

  An oil extract depends on two independent steps, converting the acid and moving the compound into the fat, and the common methods cover those two steps very unevenly.

• Decarboxylation in Cannabis – Process, Temperature and Losses

  How heat converts THCA into THC, which time and temperature figures stand behind it, and where the compound is lost in an open oven.