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Sativa plants generally result in energetic effects, stimulating the mind and emotions. They are generally best for daytime use. Visit Takoma Wellness and choose a Sativa strain that is best suited for your needs!

Our pre-rolled joints are made in-house from 0.5 gram – 1 gram of flower and rolled using unbleached natural paper. We have a wide selection of pre-rolls made with different strains.

Trying a pre-roll before committing to a strain is an excellent way to observe if it’s a good option for your unique needs. Additionally, pre-roll 5 and 10 packs are available in a limited variety of strains.

Cannabis edibles are consumed orally. You can purchase edibles in select doses at our DC dispensary or make infused foods at home by adding our activated THC or CBD to a recipe of your choice. When having an edible, the effects will be delayed because cannabinoids first need to be digested and metabolized. This process takes between 1 – 2 hours, and the effects are usually felt for 4 – 6 hours. It is essential to start with a low dose when medicating with cannabis orally because the effects are sustained. Since everyone has a unique endocannabinoid system, the correct dose for you may differ from the right dose for someone else. You can figure out the right dose for you by starting with low-dose edibles and progressing to higher-dose edibles if appropriate.

Your Guide to Cannabis Concentrates

The interaction between body chemistry and specific strains is one of the greatest mysteries of cannabis. Whether a strain (and its associated concentrate) affects you in an uplifting way or a relaxing way depends mainly upon how it interacts with your body and how it is consumed.

Why Use Concentrates?

Often concentrates are recommended for patients requiring a higher level of medication for specific conditions. Some patients prefer concentrated medicine for its ease of use and small dose size.

Why So Many Types?

Shatter, wax, rosin, oil, crumble, sap, pull-snap, taffy, budder – these are some of the names cannabis extracts have earned through their popularity and diversification. This list might lead you to believe that there are significant differences between them, but the division between glass-like shatter and more crumbly wax is more superficial than one might expect.

For those of you who are new to concentrates, a cannabis extract is an oil containing highly concentrated amounts of the cannabis plant’s essential chemical compounds – THC and CBD are the most famous. While this is achieved through various extraction processes and solvents, the end product is a highly potent oil of varying consistencies popularly consumed by vaporization, smoking, or dabbing.

Wax & Crumble

Cannabis wax contains opaque oils that lose transparency during the extraction process. The wax-like feel is due to the amount of moisture contained in the oil. Oils with more moisture tend to form gooey waxes often called “budder,” while oils with less moisture take on a soft, brittle texture known as “crumble” or “honeycomb.” The term “wax” can also be used in a general sense to describe the category of soft extracts.

Rosin

As Leafly explains: “Rosin refers to an extraction process that utilizes a combination of heat and pressure to nearly instantaneously squeeze resinous sap from your initial starting material. The term “rosin” originated as a method of making a product used to lubricate violin bows. With cannabis, this method is incredibly versatile in that it can either be used with flowers or clean up hash and kief into full-melt hash oil. The result is a translucent, sappy, and sometimes shatter-like product. If executed correctly, rosin can rival the flavor, potency, and yield of other solvent-based extraction products.

One reason for rosin’s newfound popularity is that it’s a solventless technique, meaning the process does not require the use of any foreign substances. Instead, rosin uses a mechanical process involving heat and pressure to extract the resin from the plant. Other extraction methods utilize light hydrocarbons such as butane or propane. Often, these complex and mechanical systems require a lengthy purge to safely remove most, if not all of the residual solvents from the final product.”

Kief

Kief is the simplest concentrate, composed of trichomes (crystals coating the outside surface of the cannabis flowers containing high levels of cannabinoids) detached from the dried plant material, usually via specialized screens.

Hash

One of the oldest forms is hash, a concentrate made by compression of the plant’s resin. The powdery kief that coats your cannabis flowers can be collected and pressed together to form hash, or Carbon Dioxide (CO2) may be used to more effectively strip the plant of its cannabinoid-loaded crystals.

How to Use Concentrates

• Along with cannabis – many concentrates can be crumbled and placed on top of a pipe or into a joint

• Alone in a hash pipe

• Kief may be used in coffee, tea or heated and mixed with butter

• Vape pens

• Dabbing – vaporizing on a hot surface. It is easy to consume too much, too quickly. While one may do five dabs in a row in less than five minutes, it’s a little harder to smoke five joints in that same amount of time. So when it comes down to ease of use, it is much faster and easier to consume massive amounts of cannabinoids in concentrated form, and people must use minimal quantities.

Tinctures are cannabis infusions made with oil, alcohol, or glycerin. They are primarily used sublingually, though it is possible to add them to food or drinks. Using them to infuse food will alter their effects. Sublingual use results in cannabinoids being absorbed into the bloodstream via the sublingual artery. Tincture effects take approximately 30 minutes to be felt, and the effects are generally sustained for about 2 hours. Tinctures are excellent alternatives to inhalation and offer precise dosing options. A standard eyedropper dispenses 0.05 mL per drop, meaning 20 drops in 1 mL of medication.