Lipomed and a few other companies actually sell all kinds of psychoactives and narcotics as reference standards for toxicology, but the market for cannabis references got a lot larger since most states require laboratory assay of cannabis products. I think gas chromatography by flame ionization is the typical method but you have to calibrate your equipment against some really top-shelf stuff.
Lipomed and a few other companies actually sell all kinds of psychoactives and narcotics as reference standards for toxicology, but the market for cannabis references got a lot larger since most states require laboratory assay of cannabis products. I think gas chromatography by flame ionization is the typical method but you have to calibrate your equipment against some really top-shelf stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI
Derek Muller of Veritasium also had an episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/nist2387
dunno what the cannabis might cost
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/07/nists-new-hemp...