SMITHS FALLS, ON, April 1st 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - The Research and
Development team at Tweed Inc. (Tweed) (TSX.V: TWD) have been busy
in the lab analyzing an exciting new discovery in the cannabis
plants from the latest harvest. When growing marijuana, the
environment and the inputs can apparently become a part of the
outputs in ways that have never been observed before. The lab
results show that the medical marijuana plants have melded with
leftover chocolate residue and spontaneously formed a new cannabis
terpene, the aromatic compounds that give plants distinct
aromas.
"We dubbed it A1-Chocolatene, because of the teardrop shape and
the pleasant chocolaty smell it gives off," said Katya Boudko, Tweed's Head of R&D.
This discovery comes on the heels of the Company being named one
of the Canada's Most Innovative by
Canadian Business Magazine. Even though the new molecule appeared
on its own, Tweed's ability to isolate it and study it wouldn't
have been possible without the Company's in-house lab. Sometimes,
you need that extra ingredient to be able to peel back the foil and
figure out what a discovery like this actually means for the
scientific community.
While this could be regarded as a first for cannabis,
spontaneous changes like this aren't completely unfounded. Gueuze
style Belgian beer owes its distinct taste to the buildings it is
aged in. A1-Chocolatene could be the same sort of scenario.
"Our best guess is that the years and years of chocolate
production somehow got into the atmosphere here at 1 Hershey Drive.
The cannabis plants are breathing it in for weeks on end and
they're mutating," said Boudko. "At first it looked like any normal
aromatic terpene but once we looked at it under the microscope, the
slope and pointed top became evident and we knew we were working
with something magical."
Tweed's newest discovery does unfortunately mean that the
patent-pending Terpography section in the Yield Guide is out of
date. Moving forward the Company probably won't make the updates…
because…well… it's April Fools
day.
SOURCE Tweed Marijuana Inc.