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Terpenes and Terpenoids

Terpenes and Terpenoids

  The Difference Between Terpenes and Terpenoids According to Chem Wiki, backed by the University of California Davis, terpenes and terpenoids can be argued to comprise the largest and most diverse class of natural products with many being found in plants. Some more complex terpenes can even be found in animals. But what characteristically defines […]

Cannabigerolic Acid (CBGa): The “Stem Cells” of Cannabis

CBGa

Why Cannabigerolic Acid (CBGa) is Kind of a Big Deal Cannabigerol is one of the many phytocannabinoids within the cannabis plant, of which over 70 have been discovered and elucidated. And, as explained in our other article about cannabidiolic acid, many phytocannabinoids have acidic precursors. To recap really quickly, these acidic precursors turn into a […]

Phytocannabinoids: An Introductory Guide

Phytocannabinoids

What’s the Difference Between Phytocannabinoids and Cannabinoids? It might interest you to know that there’s actually a minimal difference between phytocannabinoids and cannabinoids. The difference is just a matter of specificity. Phytocannabinoids refer to any cannabinoid that is naturally occurring within the cannabis family of plants. Such cannabinoids include the more famous THC and CBD, […]

Synthetic CBD: How Does it Compare?

Synthetic-CBD

A Short Mini-History As an article published in the British Journal of Pharmacology reads, the first CBD to be synthesized was on a historic day in 1940, in the laboratories of Roger Adams in the USA. Adams was an extraordinary chemist whose crown achievements span far wider than his credit for the first synthesized cannabinoids, […]