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  • Know your Grow!

    Understanding Nutrients: Macronutrients vs Micronutrients Knowing the conditions your cannabis plant is growing in is crucial during the process of growth. Cannabis, much like other vegetation, relies on soil, water, and air to provide the nutrients needed to grow strong and healthy. The growth cycle of a cannabis plant contains three stages; seedling, vegetative, and…

  • Why does the sex of cannabis plants matter?  

    When growing a cannabis plant to obtain cannabinoids, such as THC and CBD, it is necessary to ensure that the plants are female. Female plants produce female flowers, which in-turn produce a greater number of cannabinoids in their flowers than male plants produce. Cannabinoids, and THC in particular, are the primary psychoactive phyto-chemicals in cannabis…

  • The Discovery of the THC molecule and Raphael Mechoulam 

    Brief History of Cannabis Chemistry  Cannabis use has been documented as far back as 10,000 years at a variety of archeological sites around the world. Used for medicinal and spiritual purposes, cannabis plants are known to affect humans in numerous ways such as pain relief and euphoria inducement.   As alchemists in apothecaries gave way…