Live Resin

Live resin is quickly becoming a favorite among cannabis consumers. Live resin contains an abundant amount of cannabinoids and natural cannabis flavors. How is live resin made, how does it make you feel, and what are its benefits? We answer all of those questions in this chapter.

How is Live Resin Made?

After a cannabis plant is harvested, it may go through a series of alterations that can significantly degrade its natural flavors, depending on the processing facility. By the time dried and cured cannabis flower gets to the consumer, these aromas and flavors often start to fade. Once the curing process is over, the flower can lose up to half of these flavors and aromas, or more.

Unlike other concentrates, live resin is made from freshly harvested cannabis that hasn’t been dried or cured. Immediately after harvest, live resin is flash-frozen, which preserves much of its original terpene profile. This freezing process typically involves a freezer with dry ice, or the harvested plant being dipped into a vessel that contains liquid nitrogen.

The plants are kept frozen until the concentrate or extract process begins. Not all live resin is made this way, as some concentrate makers will alter this process, which again, depends on the facility.

The resulting live resin product, therefore, tends to contain noticeably more terpenes and a better flavor than shatter, wax, or hash oil. Due to its undeniable flavor profile, many cannabis consumers believe that this form of concentrate helps to preserve terpene profiles better than any other concentrate.

How Does Live Resin Make You Feel?

As is the case with all other concentrates, the potency of live resin depends on many factors and variables. These factors include extraction method, the facility, and of course, the original harvested cannabis plant and how well it’s grown.

What are the Benefits of Live Resin?

Depending on the kind of cannabis plant that is used in the live resin process, also called the source cultivar, live resin can have a number of benefits. These benefits can include relaxation, relief from the symptoms of anxiety or chronic pain, help with sleeping problems, increase appetite, and so on.

If properly extracted, the benefits you’d get from the source cannabis material should logically be amplified when consuming live resin rather than the original flower. For instance, maybe a consumer would inhale two or three times from their vaporizer to help them sleep through the night. With the live resin version of that cultivar, perhaps the consumer could achieve the same effect with only one inhale of live resin.

The live resin concentrate is yet another example of the continual innovation of the legal cannabis industry. As the sector continues to evolve, we will undoubtedly see more products like live resin, which will only increase the options consumers already have.

What We Learned: Live Resin

Live resin is becoming one of the most popular cannabis concentrates because of its excellent flavor and potency. Here’s what else we learned about Live Resin in this Chapter:

• Immediately after harvest, some live resin is flash-frozen, which preserves much of its original terpene profile.
• This freezing process typically involves a freezer with dry ice, or the harvested plant being dipped into a vessel that contains liquid nitrogen.
• Due to its undeniable flavor profile, many cannabis consumers believe that this form of concentrate helps to preserve terpene profiles better than any other concentrate.
• The potency of live resin depends on factors like the extraction method, the facility, and of course, the original harvested cannabis plant and how well it’s grown.
• Depending on the kind of cannabis plant that is used in the live resin process, also called the source cultivar, live resin can have a number of benefits; which include relief from the symptoms of anxiety or chronic pain, help with sleeping problems, and increased appetite.
• If properly extracted, the benefits you’d get from the source cannabis material should logically be amplified when consuming live resin rather than the original flower.

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