Category: Advanced Rosin Tech

Did Minor League Baseball Just Greenlight Cannabis Use?

Back in December 2019, Major League Baseball announced that it would be removing cannabis from their banned substances list for professional players in the minor leagues. This finally brought minor league baseball into line with the major leagues, who hadn’t been policed as harshly as the smaller local town players. Starting with the 2020 season, a whole world of solventless cannabis has opened to major sports, and solventless cannabis for athletic recovery, performance anxiety, and pain relief are just around the corner for professional baseball players, minor and major leaguers alike. “Drugs of Abuse” It’s an open secret that major league baseball players have never really been tested for cannabis, and while few talk about it publicly, a fairly overt cannabis culture exists within the game at its highest levels. For minor leaguers however, it’s a very different story. Owing to their generally younger ages, minor league pros had previously been subject to strict testing, and swift bans if caught using cannabis. Ultimately, this meant players were forced to avoid using cannabis completely, even as a medicine.  But now, following the MLBs official announcement that it is removing cannabis from its list of “Drugs of Abuse”, minor league players can finally make use of cannabis just like the big timers. Furthermore, with the two leagues aligned on cannabis policy, this surely presents a tremendous opportunity for solventless cannabis to...

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Pressing At Home: Keep Flowers Fresh With Boveda

Relative humidity is a much bigger deal than most cannabis enthusiasts give it credit for. Keeping the moisture in your bud at the perfect level affects everything from the flavor and aroma of your weed, all the way to the effects it elicits, and even how well it stores over time. Neglecting this critical aspect can have dire consequences for your prized flower, and will seriously impact your resulting rosin’s quality. That’s why it’s so important to maintain correct humidity levels inside your cannabis containers, and also why Boveda Packs are the answer to all of your humidity woes....

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Could Virtual Trade Shows Work for the Cannabis Industry?

With the internet now in almost everybody’s home, a new breed of virtual trade shows are catering to audiences who can’t make it in person to their favorite conventions. Plus, under the current climate of the global pandemic, large public gatherings continue to run the risk of exposure and cancellation. However, these strange times have given virtual attendance to events a whole new significance. But what does that mean for the cannabis industry and solventless rosin – where smelling, tasting, and experiencing cannabis is at the heart of the occasion?  Virtual Trade Shows: Not as New as You May...

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Automation: The Future of Cannabis Extraction

Rosin Tech has come a long way from those early days of hair straighteners and wax paper. In just a few short years, all manner of commercially available rosin presses have flooded the concentrate market. Solventless rosin has left the bedroom DIY scene and exploded into the popular conscience of cannabis enthusiasts. But now, next-gen programmable touch screen presses are taking rosin making to a whole new level of refinement, and space-age tech is here to optimize the rosin game like never before.   Ease of Use Many older presses are rudimentary in their design and as a result, they’re...

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The Importance of Keeping Your Lab Cool

Terpene awareness has been growing in the solventless rosin community, and this has precipitated a shift away from both high temperature pressing and dabbing, all in the name of terpene preservation. However, heat plays a much bigger role in concentrate making than just pressing and dabbing temperatures. From cultivation and harvesting, all the way through to extraction, pressing, and storage, heat can seriously deteriorate your rosin’s terpene profile. That’s why keeping your entire extraction facility cool is of the utmost importance to rosin makers. Everything Causes Terpene Loss Terpenes are incredibly volatile and delicate substances that deteriorate rapidly. Contact...

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