Hemp Extracts When the federal Farm Bill of 2018 legalized cultivation of hemp – a member of the banned cannabis family – it also opened legal loophole entrepreneurs could use to chemically produce large quantities of low-cost Delta 8 THC from the plant. It turns out...
It should be common knowledge that TRUCE supports and advocates for full-spectrum whole plant medicine patients need and want. This does not mean we categorically oppose the study and possible creation of isolated compounds from a plant to target a specific ailment....
What are Plant Terpenes? Terpenes and terpenoid compounds are found in all living organisms. They are especially abundant in green and flowering plants. The plant uses its distinct chemical compounds to attract or repel users, and it’s estimated that there are...
Plant Growth Regulators and Cannabis Plant Growth Regulators (PGR’s) are synthetic hormones that control a plants’ structure and growth rate like the size of the plant, the shape of roots, stems and leaves, and how fast flowering starts. Each action has an opposite...
Is Utah’s Cannabis Industry Looking Like California’s? Is it possible Utah’s medical cannabis program may end up like California’s cannabis industry? The medical and adult-use cannabis trade is so overburdened with regulation and costs that the illegal...
Delta-8 and Patients We continue our discussion around the current fad in the cannabis and hemp space with an article from the Salt Lake Tribune, “Some Utah cannabis patients swear off Delta-8 THC”. We would like to thank the Salt Lake Tribune for covering this story...
