Laboratory analyses

Every analysed reference carries, beneath its composition, a single reading table: total cannabinoids, five majors, ten minors, and total THC set apart with its regulatory threshold. The same table for every reference, whatever the product family.

This choice has a useful consequence: two products can be compared at a glance, since the rows are always the same and in the same order. An empty cell means the molecule was not tested for by the laboratory, which is not the same thing as a molecule tested for and not found.

The five majors are CBD, CBDA, CBG, CBN and CBC: they are what shape the profile and carry most of the mass.

The ten minors are CBGA, CBCA, CBDV, CBDVA, THCV, THCVA, CBL, CBLA, CBE and CBT. They are measured in hundredths of a percent. On the majors' scale they would be invisible, so their bars are drawn on their own scale - this is noted next to the heading, and the exact figures are always written out in full.

Values are percentages by mass: 4.95% CBD means 4.95 g of CBD per 100 g of product, i.e. 49.5 mg per gram.

A cannabinoid's total adds its neutral form to its acid form, the latter multiplied by 0.877 - the ratio of molecular masses, which corresponds to what decarboxylation actually releases. This is the rule applied by French regulation for total THC, and we apply it the same way to CBD and CBG.

'< LQ' means the molecule was indeed tested for, and may be present, but below the limit at which the laboratory is willing to state a figure. This is not an absence: it's a presence that cannot be quantified.

We prefer this notation to a zero, which would assert more than the measurement allows.

A certificate covers a batch, not a reference in general: a new batch calls for a new analysis, and the report's date matters as much as its figures.

A cannabinoid report covers neither terpenes, nor residual solvents, nor pesticides or heavy metals, unless expressly stated. When a product carries the name of a molecule the laboratory did not test for, the report does not confirm that name: it only describes what was measured.