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Why Coconut Oil Is The Best Choice For Cannabis Infusions And Tinctures
Coconut oil contains a high amount of healthy fatty acids, which not only have tremendous health benefits, but also act as an effective binding agent for the cannabinoids.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) are the two primary compounds in cannabis. Both these cannabinoids require the presence of fat to become bioavailable once consumed within the human body. They are also fat soluble, which mean that cannabinoids are stored in the fatty tissues in our body.
THC especially has been noted by scientists to have a high affinity for fats. Whenever making cannabis infusions, one always needs a good fat for the cannabinoids to bind themselves to.
Many cannabis products are infused into a variety of popular fats. Butter is the most common, especially for cooking and baking, though other widely-used fats include coconut oil, olive oil, walnut oil, and avocado oil to name a few others. But coconut oil is still the best among all these types of fat.
Benefits of Coconut Oil for Cannabis Infusions
Coconut oil has an endless list of versatile uses, and it’s also vegan-friendly. It can be used for cooking even in higher temperatures.
Coconut oil provides the greatest number of health benefits especially when combined with cannabis. It contains a high amount of healthy fatty acids, which not only have tremendous health benefits, but also act as an effective binding agent for the cannabinoids. Just one tablespoon of coconut oil already meets the 13 gram per day recommendation for saturated fats by the American Heart Association.
Additionally, it contains over 80% saturated fats, which is why it’s such a great carrier oil. Other oils, such as olive, only have a saturated fat content of around 20%. Saturated fats are usually found in animal products and by-products, such as butter, though butter isn’t vegan-friendly.
Meanwhile, other plant-based fats such as avocado and sesame oil are virtually unsaturated. Saturated fats normally will cause detrimental health problems such as high cholesterol when consumed in high amounts, but coconut oil simply doesn’t have that effect on the cardiovascular system. It’s the perfect healthy fat since the medium-chain fatty acids do not clog the arteries.
Saturated animal fats are the most efficient way to deliver the therapeutic benefits of cannabinoids when consumed.
Furthermore, coconut oil can be infused with cannabis to make oral cannabis oils, lubricants, topicals, cooked and baked goods.
It also has potent health benefits that no other fat or oil does:
- Coconut oil can increase your good cholesterol
- The lauric acid content in coconut oil is a powerful antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fungal compound
- Coconut oil, either consumed orally or applied topically, can help improve skin conditions while boosting hydration
- Coconut oil may help slow down the symptoms of Alzheimer’s
And so much more.
Now when you combine that with the health benefits of cannabis, you have yourself one extremely powerful and therapeutic infused cannabis oil.
Types of Coconut Oil You Can Use for Cannabis Infusions
There are basically two kinds of coconut oils that are sold in the market: refined and unrefined. They each have their own advantages, though all of them can be used to make a variety of cannabis oil infusions. What makes them different are the methods of processing that they undergo.
- Virgin Coconut Oil: Virgin coconut oil, sometimes known as unrefined coconut oil, is essentially coconut oil that has not been processed. It’s extremely smooth and has a gentle taste, so much so that it’s easy to consume on its own.
Some unrefined coconut oils are sold and marketed as ‘cold pressed’, which means that they didn’t use any heat in extracting the oils.
- Refined Coconut Oil: Refined coconut oil is widely sold at supermarkets. It has a more neutral taste and a much higher smoke point, making it more suitable for cooking and baking. The refining process does remove some of the nutrients. Just be sure to purchase refined coconut oil that’s solvent free.
- MCT Oil: Medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) oil can be used in any cannabis infusion recipe, especially for gummies and candies. It’s flavorless, making it a great carrier for making tasty foods and dishes. It goes through a process that separates the different kinds of fat within the coconut oil, leaving just the medium chain fatty acids. The medium-chain triglyceride content makes the smaller molecules in this coconut oil easier to digest, and more efficiently absorbed in the blood stream.
In doing so, it can be converted into energy much quicker, which is why MCT oils are popular among keto diet enthusiasts. MCT oil is also known as fractionated coconut oil.
Whenever buying coconut oil to use in infusions, it’s always good to go for organic especially if you are using these products for health benefits.
Conclusion
Cannabis coconut oil is such a powerful combination that can be used for improving overall health as well as reducing the symptoms of chronic pain, heart disease, inflammation, diabetes, cancer, migraines, obesity and so much more. This is primarily because of the high concentration of saturated fat and medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil, allowing it to work synergistically with the therapeutic cannabinoids in marijuana. As a result, the human body can absorb and metabolize these compounds efficiently compared to other carrier oils.
New Mexico regulators fined a cannabis operator nearly $300,000 and revoked its license after the company allegedly created fake reports in the state’s traceability software.
The New Mexico Cannabis Control Division (CCD) accused marijuana manufacturer and retailer Golden Roots of 11 violations, according to Albuquerque Business First.
Golden Roots operates the The Cannabis Revolution Dispensary.
The majority of the violations are related to the Albuquerque company’s improper use of BioTrack, which has been New Mexico’s track-and-trace vendor since 2015.
The CCD alleges Golden Roots reported marijuana production only two months after it had received its vertically integrated license, according to Albuquerque Business First.
Because cannabis takes longer than two months to be cultivated, the CCD was suspicious of the report.
After inspecting the company’s premises, the CCD alleged Golden Roots reported cultivation, transportation and sales in BioTrack but wasn’t able to provide officers who inspected the site evidence that the operator was cultivating cannabis.
In April, the CCD revoked Golden Roots’ license and issued a $10,000 fine, according to the news outlet.
The company requested a hearing, which the regulator scheduled for Sept. 1.
At the hearing, the CCD testified that the company’s dried-cannabis weights in BioTrack were suspicious because they didn’t seem to accurately reflect how much weight marijuana loses as it dries.
Company employees also poorly accounted for why they were making adjustments in the system of up to 24 pounds of cannabis, making comments such as “bad” or “mistake” in the software, Albuquerque Business First reported.
Golden Roots was fined $298,972.05 – the amount regulators allege the company made selling products that weren’t properly accounted for in BioTrack.
The CCD has been cracking down on cannabis operators accused of selling products procured from out-of-state or not grown legally:
- Regulators alleged in August that Albuquerque dispensary Sawmill Sweet Leaf sold out-of-state products and didn’t have a license for extraction.
- Paradise Exotics Distro lost its license in July after regulators alleged the company sold products made in California.
Golden Roots was the first alleged rulebreaker in New Mexico to be asked to pay a large fine.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/new-mexico-cannabis-operator-fined-loses-license-for-alleged-biotrack-fraud/
Four marijuana companies, including a multistate operator, have filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in which they allege the federal MJ prohibition under the Controlled Substances Act is no longer constitutional.
According to the complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, retailer Canna Provisions, Treevit delivery service CEO Gyasi Sellers, cultivator Wiseacre Farm and MSO Verano Holdings Corp. are all harmed by “the federal government’s unconstitutional ban on cultivating, manufacturing, distributing, or possessing intrastate marijuana.”
Verano is headquartered in Chicago but has operations in Massachusetts; the other three operators are based in Massachusetts.
The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the “Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional as applied to the intrastate cultivation, manufacture, possession, and distribution of marijuana pursuant to state law.”
The companies want the case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
They hired prominent law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to represent them.
The New York-based firm’s principal is David Boies, whose former clients include Microsoft, former presidential candidate Al Gore and Elizabeth Holmes’ disgraced startup Theranos.
Similar challenges to the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) have failed.
One such challenge led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2005.
In Gonzalez vs. Raich, the highest court in the United States ruled in a 6-3 decision that the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to outlaw marijuana federally, even though state laws allow the cultivation and sale of cannabis.
In the 18 years since that ruling, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized adult-use marijuana and the federal government has allowed a multibillion-dollar cannabis industry to thrive.
Since both Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, currently headed by Garland, have declined to intervene in state-licensed marijuana markets, the key facts that led to the Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling “no longer apply,” Boies said in a statement Thursday.
“The Supreme Court has since made clear that the federal government lacks the authority to regulate purely intrastate commerce,” Boies said.
“Moreover, the facts on which those precedents are based are no longer true.”
Verano President Darren Weiss said in a statement the company is “prepared to bring this case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to align federal law with how Congress has acted for years.”
While the Biden administration’s push to reschedule marijuana would help solve marijuana operators’ federal tax woes, neither rescheduling nor modest Congressional reforms such as the SAFER Banking Act “solve the fundamental issue,” Weiss added.
“The application of the CSA to lawful state-run cannabis business is an unconstitutional overreach on state sovereignty that has led to decades of harm, failed businesses, lost jobs, and unsafe working conditions.”
Alabama regulators are targeting Dec. 1 to award the first batch of medical cannabis business licenses after the agency’s first two attempts were scrapped because of scoring errors and litigation.
The first licenses will be awarded to individual cultivators, delivery providers, processors, dispensaries and state testing labs, according to the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC).
Then, on Dec. 12, the AMCC will award licenses for vertically integrated operations, a designation set primarily for multistate operators.
Licenses are expected to be handed out 28 days after they have been awarded, so MMJ production could begin in early January, according to the Alabama Daily News.
That means MMJ products could be available for patients around early March, an AMCC spokesperson told the media outlet.
Regulators initially awarded 21 business licenses in June, only to void them after applicants alleged inconsistencies with how the applications were scored.
Then, in August, the state awarded 24 different licenses – 19 went to June recipients – only to reverse themselves again and scratch those licenses after spurned applicants filed lawsuits.
A state judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Chicago-based MSO Verano Holdings Corp., but another lawsuit is pending.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/alabama-plans-to-award-medical-cannabis-licenses-dec-1/
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