Durban Poison

I don’t believe we should say “X % of cannabis businesses should be run by minorities”, but rather, we should pave the way for individuals within these neighborhoods to help out their peers. It’s the old adage of “teaching a man to fish”. Instead of trying to pay our way out of shame, we could enable these people to benefit their own communities by empowering them to implement sustainable businesses within their neighborhoods.

By removing a molecule of hydrogen from the THC – the researchers are inducing “oxidation” which then leads to a color change of the molecule because it changes the waveform of the molecule. The structure of THC includes a unit called a phenol. When chemists oxidize a phenol, the oxidation produces a member of a class of organic compounds called quinones. “We know how to oxidize a phenol into a quinone,” Garg said. THC and the quinone absorb light differently. With what happened then was that after the oxidation process occurred, the THC molecule was altered and produced a different color. While this is a very rudimentary way of detecting the presence of THC – it is very effective and requires very little tech or training to implement.

According to Cermak, taking a prolonged break from weed would “up regulate” your receptors meaning, that you’d be able to have greater quantities of THC biologically available to you. You’d have more receptors “open for business”. Therefore, if you’re reaching a point where it gets more difficult to get high or you’re simply “meh” about most things in life – taking a short break to purge yourself from access cannabinoids and to up regulate your receptors would be a good thing.