31 posts tagged with "Cannabis"

Everyone is talking about terpenes these days when it comes to cannabis – which is better than talking about just potency or cannabinoids, as the terpenes and the cannabinoids interact with each other to produce the unique effects we feel from each different strain we consume. This is the famous Entourage Effect, and to help people get familiar with all the wide variety of terpenes out there, we’re going to dig into a different terpene each month – January’s Terp-In-Profile is Myrcene!

UPDATE 2018-5-25: We have added a QR Code label template to our client portal – now you can print your product labels with a QR Code!

We’re feeling rather spiffy here at Confidence right now – our shiny new website is up and running! We’ve revamped to focus on the 3 things people look for most when they come to our site: pricing, FAQs, and blog posts. Our contact page is more comprehensive, and you can get our location information from the bottom of any page, whether you are on desktop or mobile. The Frequently Asked Questions section is now fully searchable so you can find the answers you need quickly. And of course, if you use our main site as your jump-point to our client portal, you can still get there with the Client Login button at the top right of the screen (or in the main site menu for those of you on mobile).

Recently, we’ve taken calls from a few customers about the most recent LCB rule changes. There are a few concerns, and these rules are not exactly the easiest things to figure out. Let’s catch you up as we know it.

New cannabis QA testing requirements are on the horizon here in Washington state, taking effect on August 31, 2017. These rule changes mean adding new test requirements for some product types. Additional test requirements are going to mean increased testing costs for producers and processors. You can learn more about the new requirements on our New Rules FAQ page.

Have you ever loaded a bowl of beautiful, sparkling flower, put the flame to the green, inhaled, and coughed out a cloud of metallic, fertilizer-flavored smoke? An incomplete flush is an unfortunate waste of flower. There are many different techniques to ensure a good flush, but wouldn’t it be nice to know if your flush is finished before finding out the hard way?

For those that work with the same product every day, it can come as a surprise when others don’t recognize something so familiar. As a result, people don’t always label their products correctly. We receive samples here at the lab on a regular basis that are not fully labeled, so we’ve become quite good at identifying the different product types – and even we still get it wrong from time to time!

Slowly but surely, as cannabis becomes legal again in states across the US and in countries across the world, scientists are beginning to delve back into researching cannabis. Research grants are becoming more available as interest grows in the biomedical benefits of the plant, and accordingly more research papers are being published and peer-reviewed.

The chart below depicts the THC Total values for all flower samples submitted to Confidence Analytics and reported to the WSLCB’s seed-to-sale traceability system to date. As you can see, it’s pretty steady at 18% average, but there’s always a slight dip in the late fall season. Typically, the central 50% of the distribution is between 15 and 20%.

Confidence Analytics is pleased to announce that after months of method development we are now in full production with our brand new, state-of-the-art Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometry (GCMS). This instrument now empowers us to offer the very best in scent and flavor analysis, with high sensitivity and selectivity to over 45 terpenes and esters commonly found in cannabis, as well as in-depth residual analysis of over 20 solvents and solvent impurities.