![]() ![]() The crystals are put back in the diamond miner for one more bake, and the result is pure THCA. That “sauce” is separated and used as its own product or added into others, Priset explained. The diamond miner uses heat and pressure to form delta-9 THCA crystals beneath liquified terpenes. Once the plant material is filtered out, a pure mix of cannabinoids and terpenes are put in a rotary evaporator, also aptly named a “diamond miner.” First, hexane or acetic acid is added to the mixture to further separate the plant material. It begins where most concentrates begin, from a slurry of plant material dissolving in butane solvent. But now, it has its own extraction method. That is, the resin is extracted from the plant, and the THCA extracted from the resin. The first batch came from a secondary extraction, Priset said. “It’s one of those things where you keep exploring and keep advancing the techniques,” he said. It took Priset a couple months of trial and error to dial in a process that produced pure enough crystals that he felt good about putting on shop shelves. Tru|med’s Black Diamond THCA won second place at the Errl Cup in January. He began working on his own formula at Drip in late 2016. Priset first came across diamond at the 2015 High Times Cup in California. Some products offer patients something more like a premade salad mix, he explained, but with different cannabinoid and terpene isolates now available, patients can customize what molecules they’re consuming with greater precision. Priset likens it to an ingredient in a salad. Many patients may consume diamond by itself many choose to add it to blunts or bowls to increase THC consumption. Drip Oil’s lab director, Jared Priset said it’s a prime ingredient in “caviar,” a bud doused in butane hash oil and rolled around in kief. Most concentrates, like shatter and vape pen oil, hover in the 70 to 90 percent THC range. The idea behind pure THCA concentrate is that it gives patients the option to inhale nearly pure THC. Cannabis doesn’t start making THC until its THCA is exposed to heat, like sunlight or the flame from a lighter. ![]() It’s a precursor to THC sometimes used in topicals and other concentrate forms and doesn’t produce the same psychoactive effects as THC. Only three labs in Arizona produce the “super concentrate:” Tru|med’s Drip Oils + Extracts, Item 9 Labs, and MPX. For now, the relatively new cannabis concentrate seems about as rare as its geological counterpart.ĭiamond began showing up in the Arizona medical-marijuana market around mid-2017. If you haven’t heard about THCA diamond, don’t feel out of the loop.
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