// Who They Are
Chemist and cannabis science expert who provides detailed analytical chemistry knowledge on Hash Church. Discussed parchment paper contamination, ICP-MS testing, Quilon coatings, chromium chemistry (Cr3 vs Cr6), THCP pharmacology, cannabinoid biosynthesis, forever chemicals (PFAS), and CBD-to-THC conversion economics.
// Notable Quotes
" There is a parchment paper that's lined with something called Quilon, Q-U-I-L-O-N, and that is a myristic acid chromium-3 complex in isopropanol. "
" We don't know in the rosin-making process, can you get oxidation of the chromium-3 up to chromium-6? Because now you have really toxic chromium in there. "
" Just using parchment under heat and pressure generates forever chemicals - that's not correct. These things are almost ubiquitous in our environment these days. "
" When you heat it, it either degrades that molecule or it just loses its sort of same kind of mechanical properties. "
" I'd be really worried about chromium leaching in... at a nail temperature in the presence of oxygen that's going to turn to chromium-6, and now that's Erin Brockovich, super carcinogenic. "
" That 30 times thing is basically what we call an in silico number. "
" Cannabinoids are basically phenylated terpenoids, if you think of it that way, because there's a terpene portion to the cannabinoid molecule. "
" I've always been a proponent that if cannabis is legalized and completely descheduled and people have access to it, there wouldn't be a need for recreational synthetics. "