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TERPENE
ANALYSIS
A HIGHER LEVEL OF CANNABIS QUALITY
by Chris Bond
As cannabis consumers become wiser and
more discerning, it is up to producers to
ensure their products are up to snuff. Chris
Bond explores some of the methods being
used to ensure cannabis products on the
market meet expectations.
Much has been written about the benefits and features
of various terpenes, especially as they relate to
cannabis. There are more than 140 of these naturally
occurring compounds that are responsible for many of
the smells and tastes associated with numerous herbs
and plants, both common and rare. Botanically speaking,
terpenes are a group of volatile, unsaturated metabolites
found in the essential oils of more than 2,000 varieties
of different plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, and, of
course, cannabis. Pine, citrus, and cannabis aromas,
among scores of other familiar scents, all owe their
chemical properties to terpenes.
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