How Dank Is Your Nug: Kit Tests Weed Purity

[slimvictor]

Marijuana strains sold in the 20 states where it’s legal are not well tested, and some are even beset with E. coli, mold and pesticides. As more states legalize marijuana, customer demand for organic, chemical-free weed is bound to take root.

MyDx, a handheld device that tests the purity of weed, hopes to put the conscious toker’s mind at ease — more so than it already is. The small testing kit connects with a smartphone app to immediately tell users if their stash contains specific cannabinoids, smell compounds know as terpenoids or harmful chemicals.

“There’s no quick, easy, affordable way to test safety and potency of cannabis samples. People don’t know what they’re putting in their bodies,” co-founder Daniel Yazbeck told Fast Company. “If a doctor prescribes cannabis to you, and you go the dispensary and see a bunch of jars, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just names.”

Users simply place a sample in the device’s sliding tray and wait for the results. Sensors inside the device act as an “electric nose” and detect marker molecules in vapor form. Additionally, the device also conveys whether the sample will make users happy, social, distracted and so on, depending on the strain.




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[f33lg00d]

That's so cool! Is it gonna be able to tell the cbd and thc content?

 

[TheRightStuff]

Wonder how much one costs?

 

[slimvictor]

That's so cool! Is it gonna be able to tell the cbd and thc content?

Yep. In the video you can catch a quick glimpse of it, and it even lists terpenes (which seem like the newest focus for cannabis research).

 

[poledriver]

This is cool.

 

['medicine cabinet']

Hah cool device. I like how it tells you the effects and the like

weed analyzing machine, will this nug get me high?
Machine: yes.

 

[《Plasticity》]

That device is pretty dope but I bet it costs a pretty penny. I don't get what they mean when they say that dispensaries don't know the purity of their buds. Just about every dispensary I've been to lists the CBD and THC content, though not terpene content...

 

[Hammilton]

Based on my limited experience, those numbers are as likely to be made up as they are real, usually they're just based on someone's perception of effects. This weed makes me tried, okay, high cbd low thc... not scientific, really. I don't know where they're supposedly getting those numbers from. What lab is analyzing all of this weed?

 

[slimvictor]

^ The numbers seem legit, but I do not believe that the machine can correctly tell you the effects of the weed.
After all, it depends so much on experience, set and setting...

 

[f33lg00d]

If it comes out and weed gets legalized, I'll own one. I'd even like to use it for unfamiliar fruits.

And weed gets legalized? Seems much more useful for illegal weed.

 

[TheRightStuff]

That device is pretty dope but I bet it costs a pretty penny.

$399

 

[my3rdeye]

Sensors inside the device act as an “electric nose” and detect marker molecules in vapor form. Additionally, the device also conveys whether the sample will make users happy, social, distracted and so on, depending on the strain.
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I hate to hear how it is medicine then hear that totally unsupported by any science BS. Weed is weed and happy/up weed is not strain specific. There is no such thing as a strain that is up or a strain that is good for sleeping. Indica and sativa are exactly the same in effects and impossible to tell apart in blind testing.