Charcoal joint filters filter out terpenes, which are both tasty and beneficial. They barely reduce the tar. Here’s what nobody’s telling you: take the terpenes out, you get less high. So you smoke more to chase what you lost, and you end up with more tar, not less. Big Tobacco got caught running this same… Keep Reading
Strips your terpenes. Wastes your weed. Charges you for the privilege. Tobacco proved this fifty years ago. Cannabis is running it again. The Short Version The chemistry: activated carbon strips volatile terpenes heavily, traps particulate-bound tar only modestly. The tobacco precedent: bench-test reductions disappeared because smokers compensated, then “light” and “low-tar” claims got banned in… Keep Reading
Terpenes are chemistry and neurobiology working together. Artificial flavors are something else entirely. Here’s what the difference actually means for your cannabis experience. In cannabis culture, it’s often said that cannabinoids are the “engine,” while terpenes are the “steering wheel.” In fact, as a phrase attributed to scientist and neurologist Ethan Russo goes: “Terpenes are… Keep Reading
