What is the difference between a crude extract and a standardized extract?
Some “X” extracts or “fortified leaf” preparations are offered by a few vendors as standardized preparations with a known amount of salvinorin A per gram of crushed dried leaf. These are made by extracting out and purifying salvinorin A, then redepositing it on a known amount of leaf. This results in an extract that should produce less smoke per milligram of salvinorin A ingested. The most compelling value of standardized extracts is that a known amount of salvinorin A can be ingested by weighing the extract carefully before each use. With standardized extracts, it is possible to know that 40 milligrams of a 10X fortified leaf product contains 1 mg of salvinorin A each time, for example (if this is what the standardization is set at). Although home extracts, also described as “crude” extracts (and specifically relating to the fact that they do not contain a standardized amount of salvinorin A) are often as good as those made by commercial vendors, such extracts have been criticized by
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