At Terpene Belt Farms, we are driven to be the best cannabis oil producer ever, and being the best at anything requires a motive that goes beyond economic benefit. Our corporate curiosity into all things cannabis leads us down many different paths; some bear fruit and some are dead ends. We have found others that

Did you know that “live” cannabis vape sales went up 100% from 2020 to 2021 across the country? Consumer buying behaviors are clear: vapes made completely with natural cannabis compounds (cannabinoids and cannabis terpenes) are the winners, and vapes that only have one real cannabis compound (THC) are no longer the consumer’s vape of choice.

Demand for true-to-the-plant cannabis products is here to stay and this means using real cannabis terpenes as inputs. Now the question becomes: How do you set up to scale your cannabis terpene supply chain, both within your state and nationally? Take a look at how different terpene supply chain options (dry trim extraction, fresh frozen,

Written by: Dr. Aldwin Anterola, PhD Plant Physiology, Co-Founder & CSO of Veda Scientific What makes your favorite cannabis strain so special? One hint, it’s not THC! THC is in every strain—and high percentage THC harvests aren’t particularly special. That’s why it is very appropriate that this year’s Emerald Cup, NaPro Research and SC Labs have given the cannabis industry a great

Shareef El-Sissi, CEO at Terpene Belt Farms, sits down with Sloane Barbour, Partner at FlowerHire. Shareef discusses the opportunity for cannabis CPG brands to standardize products across batches, across states and across time. Note: Interview transcription begins at 05:45 and has been edited for brevity and clarity. SLOANE: California is the most mature market in the US and

Traditional one dimensional gas chromatography (or 1D GC) is a technology used to identify and quantify the components of a complex matrix. It has limited effectiveness when analyzing oils with a high degree of complexity. Given that cannabis is the most complex of all naturally occurring oil matrices, the depth of our insight has been

Indica and sativa classifications, though massively popular, have lost their original meaning over hundreds of years of domestication. Now, science leads the next renaissance in cannabis classification — guiding us towards an understanding of cannabis effects like never before. Indica vs Sativa: What’s the Actual Difference? The original meanings of these classifications have nothing to