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Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce the increasingly popular substance.

The team found CBD in the fruits and flowers of a plant known as Trema micrantha blume, a shrub which grows across much of the South American country and is often considered a weed, molecular biologist Rodrigo Moura Neto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told AFP in 2023.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

4.43 × 10− 3 µg of CBD per gram of the plant extract, and 1.05 × 10− 3 µg/g of THC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Source?

The article does not mention it and even states there is no thc found in it.

However with what i know of cannabinoids it would be strange to find cbd and only cbd during the entire plants life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks, that’s really really low. More than 1000x lower than C.Sativa. 1kg of plant leaves yields 4mg of CBD if my math is right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We've been cultivating weed for generations to increase the potency. It'll take time for this other plant to catch up, but not long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Cannabis is ideal because of those tasty trichomes which are essentially balls of THC goo on the outside of the plant. The plant is basically a resin factory anyway, which makes extraction relatively easy. Potency is one aspect, but availability may take a bit more to work on.

[–] monomon 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still, if legal, one would "boil" (not sure what the term is for oil soluble?) a kilo with no issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Extracting oils from plants is commonly called cooking or more technically extracting. It includes a step of boiling, but that's not the whole process (decarboxylate, grind, boil, strain).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or just heat press it. I think that starts the decarb, but I dunno.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

x10^-3 micrograms seems odd to me. Why don’t they just use nanograms?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A standard of their own measurement, I suppose. Also, µg is easier to read than n g, IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

But the article says it does not contain THC?