On this episode, Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. chats with Robert Strongin, Ph.D., Professor of Organic Chemistry at Portland State University. Drs. Lupoi and Strongin discuss toxicants that can form as terpene degradation products when dabbing at high temperatures, how the levels of these toxicants compare to those formed from smoking a joint, breathing nanoparticles, and the divergent results Dr. Strongin’s group measured between dabbing and vaping higher levels of the monoterpene myrcene.
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Terpenes and Testing began as a print magazine in 2017 and has covered cannabis science ever since. Today the T&T Editorial Team continues that work online, producing research-backed articles on extraction, analytics, terpenes, cultivation and psychedelics, with scientific review by Chief Editor Nani Frenkel

