New York, NY (Top40 Charts) In their most recent podcast episode, Ganjapreneur.com, a website dedicated to cannabis industry news and culture, investigates the origins and rapid growth of a new hashish manufacturing process known as "Rosin Tech." The interview, which is hosted by Shango Los of the Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance (VIMEA), features Jeff Church, a hashish and medical cannabis expert and the founder of ThincPure, a Washington
State medical cannabis extracts manufacturer.
In the interview, Church (also known as "Reverend Cannabis") describes how Rosin Tech came onto the scene in the medical cannabis world and how it has spread rapidly, largely due to videos and photos on Instagram, originating with a user named "Soilgrown." He also describes how it has quickly disrupted the cannabis extracts market, due to the fact that it is so inexpensive and accessible for medical cannabis patients. Describing how the process works, he says "Basically what it is, is you take a piece of silicon-coated parchment paper, baking paper, and fold it in half and you put a piece of flower in there. Soilgrown's original method was to take a flat iron which is just your basic hair straightener, $20 or less [...] but you basically just, you've got your bud in between a parchment and you squeeze it with this hot iron." The result, Church says, can be on par with hash produced by highly specialized and expensive hydrocarbon extraction technology.
Also, whereas other processes require chemical solvents, Church explains that the Rosin Tech method uses only heat and pressure, resulting in a cleaner, solvent-less final product. Additionally, this means that Rosin Tech is significantly safer than the popular Butane extraction method, which relies on flammable gases which could potentially explode.
Church believes that the Rosin Tech movement is just getting started. He explains, "We look at Rosin in its infancy, and thousands and thousands of people around the world are doing this brand new extraction technique. [...] I want it to be applied on a commercial scale, and I feel that releasing this technique to the world is going to up the research that is going into this. Every single person that's doing this now is researching some way to make it better, which is just, it's great."
The full podcast is available on Ganjapreneur's website and in the iTunes Store.
About Ganjapreneur:
Ganjapreneur launched in July 2014 and has since established a significant presence in the cannabis business world. The website regularly publishes interviews and commentary from leading minds in the industry, and has also launched a B2B business directory, a live feed of job listings from marijuana job boards, a domain name marketplace for start-ups and venture capital firms, and a mobile app for Apple and Android devices which aggregates daily cannabis industry news, business profiles, and other information.
