What Are Terpenes? A Guided Tour of These Crucial Aromatic Compounds
If you’ve ever interfaced with medical cannabis, you’re probably familiar with the concept of cannabinoids, a family of compounds that include THC and CBD (among many others) that impart such useful medicinal effects. Today we’re going to shift gears and dive into an equally fascinating group of natural chemicals found in cannabis: terpenes. What are terpenes? Simply put, they’re a group of volatile hydrocarbons—that’s another way of saying “essential oils”—that happen to be the largest and most diverse family of...
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