95 CKIES

Cartridge

A prefilled container of cannabis oil, most often sold in .5g, 1g, and 2g volumes, with a built-in heating element and mouthpiece. It attaches to a rechargeable battery that is sold separately. Most use the universal "510" screw thread, so one battery works with cartridges from many makers.

The battery heats the cartridge's heating element, turning the oil into an aerosolized vapor that you inhale. The oil inside a cartridge varies: distillate with added terpenes, live resin, live rosin, etc. The menu/product listing and lab report should state which type of extract the cartridge contains.

Live Resin

A cannabis concentrate extracted with a hydrocarbon solvent (butane or propane) from fresh, frozen material at harvest. The solvent is then purged, and the lab report tests for any residual solvents.

Hybrid

A plant bred from both indica-type and sativa-type parents. Menus use "Hybrid" for effects described as in between or mixed. The label is often narrowed to indica-dominant hybrid, sativa-dominant hybrid, or balanced ("50/50"). Any percentages given are the breeder's estimate from the plant's family tree, not a measured one.

After decades of crossbreeding, nearly all modern commercial strains are hybrids in the genetic sense, regardless of the label they carry. The label says more about how a product is positioned than about the plant. A listed lineage (the cross) is more specific, but a strain name doesn't guarantee chemistry either.

More words on the menu