Our Science Director, Amber Wise has been a rotating guest on the How to Launch an Industry podcast, and the next episode drops 6/6/22! 

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Are you interested in learning more about your vape cartridge? Here’s an article highlighting our heavy metals research in Terpenes and Testing magazine; recently published.

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We were thrilled to see our Science Director; Amber Wise featured in the 13 Women Defying the Cannabis Industry Shutout. It’s good to be alongside other influential women who are making a difference in the cannabis industry.

We enjoy empowering women who love what they do!

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Sporting Deuterium – a new episode of How to Launch an Industry podcast out now, featuring our Science Director, Dr. Amber Wise.

An interesting discussion regarding public perceptions of psychedelic research, the use of cannabis in sports and this episode’s game will test your knowledge about THC-O-Acetate.

 

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Our team has been hard at work to ensure the industry’s science moves forward.

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Interesting and timely article about delta-8-THC with a quote from our Scientific Director, Dr. Amber Wise and many other experts in cannabis chemistry. Read the article here.

Excited to finally see this in print! Our team has been hard at work to ensure the industry’s science moves forward. We believe it is important to share scientific knowledge and increase our understanding of cannabis products. View the publication here.

Our Science Director, Amber Wise, was a guest on the “How to Launch an Industry” podcast to discuss recent science articles in Cannabis and Psychedelics.

 

Thank you to Marcu & Arora, Room to Grow – new episode out now! In this episode, they discuss thoughts on federal agencies’ views regarding hemp use in employees and contractors, trends in psychedelics and mental health, and cannabis proficiency testing (aka PT).

 

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Dr. Wise was quoted in this article in regards to the variables that effect terpene profiles in plants.

If plants with the same genetic makeup are grown outdoors versus indoors, “you can end up with different terpene profiles at the end because temperature, growing medium, nutrients, sunlight, all kinds of things affect the terpene profile of plants,” Wise says.

Full-spectrum terpenes from cannabis contain many compounds some at very low, but important levels. We test for 22 terpenes! Knowing the diversity of your strain is very important. Also, highlighted in this article are some of the terpenes that have health benefits.

Dr. Wise was also quoted concerning our knowledge about vaping terpenes or the degradation products that might form after high heat exposure. Medicine Creek Analytics will be the first lab in WA to have a smoke machine to test for some of these products.

“We’ve seen concentrations of up to 20% terpenes in some formulations,” Wise says. Such high levels of terpenes are “terrifying from a public health standpoint,” she says. Terpenes are typically found in cannabis flowers at levels of 2–5%.

“We don’t know anything about vaping terpenes or the degradation products that they might form after high heat exposure,” Wise says. Terpenes are highly reactive molecules that isomerize and interact with O2, she notes. But “it is a big unknown as to what happens when you heat them up, smoke them, or vape them,” she says. Variability of vape-oil composition makes it particularly challenging to study terpenes’ health effects.

Medicine Creek Analytics is devoted to the expansion of scientific knowledge in our cannabis community.