To enjoy the “
Entourage Effect,” a multitude of the plant’s phytochemical compounds must be utilized; most importantly its cannabinoids and terpenes. These compounds are found within what look like shiny, crystally specs coating the flower of the cannabis plant. To the untrained eye, this is all you’ll notice. However, once we zoom in, we notice those shiny specs are bulbous, resin-filled structures that sit atop large stalks attached at a cellular level to the plant’s surface. They are mainly found on the plant’s flowers or buds, but are also found covering its leaves, stems, and stalk. Those bulbs are actually a phytochemical powerhouse containing a sticky, resinous substance that contain most of the plant’s aromatic and flavor producing compounds like terpenes and flavonoids, its medicinal compounds like CBD, CBG and CBC, and its psychoactive compounds like THC, THCv and CBN. While those compounds attract us humans to the plant for various reasons, they also serve the plant by acting as a
defense mechanism to deter unwanted pests and pathogens…
although the deer seem to love the stuff.