2017 has been a year of huge(likely unprecedented) growth within the cannabis industry.
One of the things driving up the demand for flower, far beyond that which could be reasonably needed for public consumption, have been the huge achievements in the extract industry.
Mainly in 3 areas. Full spectrum CO2 extracts, Live Resin, and Rosin.
We’re going to talk about the latter 2. In the beginning, there were very few ways to make hash oil.
You basically had extracts that used things like ethanol(still used in certain settings,) hexane(oh hell no,) or even acetone(next level hell to the no.) The other option was blowing butane into either an open tube, or a pressurized, incredibly dangerous contraption that basically turns the oil production process into working with a time bomb.
Now we don’t even need solvents. We don’t even need to wait for the flower to dry and cure for 2-3 weeks prior to extraction. The most valuable oil right now is live resin, which uses either freshly harvested(ideally) or flash frozen(not so ideal but becoming more common) flower.
The problem is that every oz of cannabis used only yields about a gram using live resin, meaning that you’re very unlikely to find a gram for under the wholesale price of an oz of flower(luckily some flower sells for $30/oz in quantity in Oregon😉.) Meaning that prices of over $100/g for stuff made from good source material isn’t at all uncommon.
Rosin is an extraction method that has really taken off in the last year or so. Some creative growers figured out that they could make their own dabs by heating it under extreme pressure in a hair straightener. With no solvent.
Within no time, machines capable of running a quarter pound at a time, made from machine presses capable of applying sometimes 20k lbs of pressure, with computer controlled heating plates began hitting the market, with varying degrees of quality.
Rosintech is one of, if not the largest manufacturers of rosin pressing technology.
By combining rosin pressing techniques with live resin techniques, we can create an extract that rivals anything made in a full spectrum lab, with no solvents, and only the rosin press, flower, and mesh as added expenses. This is the future of extraction in my opinion.
This video talk with the designers at RosinTech is well worth giving a watch...