006 Ben Cassiday - Terpenes, the new superclass

Ben Cassiday is a cannabis educator and business owner focused on building tools for product
developers and other educators. He is a founding partner of the GreenWay Cannabis Network – a
nationwide cannabis health care clinic system and True Terpenes – a terpene education and supply company. Aside from cannabis, Ben is passionate about the health benefits of a plant-based
diet and supports harm reduction programs.

In this weeks podcast Ben talks about the importance of terpenes and their new found fame due to the cannabis movement. We ask will the interest in less know cannanoids like CBG CBB we over shadowed by interest in terpenes. We learn about the terpene superclass theory and Phillip Henry’s Hyperclasses theory and he shed light into new research on myrcene as a skin penetrator


Visit Ben’s website for more information on Terpenes https://trueterpenes.com or his work at
http://greenwaymarijuana.com/
https://trueterpenes.com/
Publications by Ben https://hightimes.com/sponsored/hunting-for-terpenes-with-true-terpenes/

If you are interested in any of the papers, book or podcast Ben mentioned :

Cannabis chemovar classification: terpenes hyper-classes and targeted genetic markers for accurate discrimination of flavours and effects by Philippe Henry https://peerj.com/preprints/3307/

Dr. Ethan Russo :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165946/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317354478_Cannabis_Pharmacology_The_Usual_Suspects_and_a_Few_Promising_Leads

Book Clinical Aromatherapy: Essential Oils in Healthcare https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Aromatherapy-Essential-Oils-Healthcare/dp/0702054402

Shaping Fire Podcast :
https://www.shapingfire.com/

To learn more about plants & your health from Colleen at LabAroma check out this informative PDF: https://www.labaroma-education.com/pl/2147628476