Thanks to changing laws across the United States, cannabis concentrates are rapidly rising in popularity. For suppliers, extracting cannabinoids and terpenes from cannabis requires sophisticated scientific processes with the equipment and talent to match. Therefore, setting up an extraction lab poses many challenges—ones that Tully Stroud, Chief Science Officer for Elite Molecular Labs, recently faced.
Elite Molecular Labs is part of Elite California, one of California’s largest cannabis oil companies. The company recruited Stroud at first for his agricultural expertise. In addition to his background in viticulture and enology from Cal Poly, Stroud has been working in vineyards his whole life. He joined the team to upgrade their grow operations, but Stroud was promoted to Chief Science Officer when senior company officials noticed his degree in chemistry. He now manages both the grow operations and the cannabis extraction and refinement.
Due to increasing demand for their product, Elite Molecular labs ...
