And when it comes to cannabis, terpenes are a big part of the reason some strains make you feel sleepy or subdued, while others might set your mind racing with inspiration.
Yet terpenes are still not as well understood as they could be.
And it’s certainly true that, when you isolate THC from the rest of the cannabis plant to create the distillate found in most edibles, you do leave behind terpenes and other beneficial compounds.
What many people don’t realize, however, is that it’s possible to reintroduce these terpenes at a later stage of the cooking process, as long as temperatures remain below the terps’ boiling point.
They’ve then used that information to create three class-specific terpene blends – a relaxing one based on the terp profiles of popular indica strains, a more motivating one based on top sativas, and a balanced one based on hybrid strains.
For example, the compound linalool produces the same effects whether you extract it from a lavender plant or a field of Kush.
For another, cannabis strains evolve slightly from harvest to harvest – meaning that the terpene profile of even one specific strain might change over time.
Botanically derived terpenes also allow Wana to recreate the same precise combinations – and, by extension, their effects – over and over again.
That’s why they infuse their products with more than 30 unique terpenes, bringing them as close as possible to the nuanced effects of the cannabis plant itself.