With synthetic cannabinoids we can have really strong THC why cant we have a synthetic version of CBD that’s super strong?
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Potency with THC is generally that the plants have been bred to have a higher percentage of THC in the bud. In 1970, the THC percentage was pretty low (like somewhere around 10%), today, you can get damn near 50% in a plant (numbers sourced from my ass). The chemical itself is the same, there’s just more of it. That’s what, on the whole, makes it more potent.
What would be the point? Chemical synthesis could make purified CBD, put the cost/benefit ratio isn’t there.
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I think you are too confused as to just what synthetic cannabinoids are in the first place. The way this whole post reads, it seems you see it as a form of THC that is produced in a laboratory. This is not the case (unless you are talking about delta 8 thc, but even that is still natural as it lays in organic chemistry; we just speed up the process of obtaining a lot by converting CBD)… I digress, synthetic cannabinoids have very little resemblance to any naturally occuring cannabinoid just by chemical structure alone. Pretty much the only thing in common is/are some slightly similar psychoactive effects.
So, it’s not synthetically produced THC or CBD, at all! It’s other completely different super cooked chemicals that just happen to kind of portray some of the effects of cannabinoids. Because of this, I doubt a synthetic CBD would ever get discovered much less even viable to our Earth’s total chemistry possibilities.
Hope this helped, if not, I’d be happy to try to clear it up some more. I guess it depends on how you define synthetics as well as cannabinoids but honestly, that still would not matter. They are not cannabinoids at all, but rather (mostly) ethyl and methyl indole chemicals. Even meth can cause some play on certain cannabinoid receptors in the animal brain; doesn’t mean it replaces THC and/or CBD.
What do you mean by synthetic cannabinoids? do you mean synthetic analogues?
plants have been bred for thc mostly not cbd.
cannabidiol is derived from a varietal that is around 20% cbd
plants are mostly illegal around the world. save for Canada and a few others
We do in many ways – organically, through strains bred to product high cbd, via solvent-based extraction, to distillation, to synthetic production.
None is “best,” it really depends on the product you’re making. Also as importantly, who you’re marketing the product to.
Pro tip if you want to dive deep into this: Future4200
I’m unsure what you mean by synthetic cannabinoids. Cannabinoids react to the endocannabinoid system and many cannabinoids enhance others or become different with time. For example, CBD works better with THC present, even if there isn’t enough THC to create a psychoactive effect. Further, even THC is kind of tricky since it only becomes the fun THC (and not THCa) once heat is applied.
It isn’t that there is super potent THC – just higher concentrations of it in different products that are used by your body in different ways. Sometimes the method of use changes how potent something can feel, just because of your unique body make up.
If you’re referring to more concentrated THC, like distillate, that isn’t synthetic. Sometimes botanical terpenes, like linalool, can enhance a certain effect, like relaxation. But those aren’t usually synthetic either.
Also, your body has endocannibanoid receptors in different parts of the body and cannibanoids are shaped differently, even from each other. CBD is shaped differently than THC or CBN. They just don’t work the same way and anything that is a ‘synthetic’ version is definitely not the same thing. Potency is determined by how much of a thing is present, not how ‘strong’ it is.
Source: I’m a budtender and sometimes distillation helper. I regularly take classes created by companies about their products and have hands in education in the industry, with product, and knowledge about cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system.
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