Multi-Cannabinoid Food Articles for Tailored Psychoactive Effects
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Solution Overview
Problem
The market lacks beverages that utilize a synergistic blend of multiple cannabinoids to create tailored psychoactive and therapeutic experiences, with existing products often limited in onset time, duration of effects, and consistency in dosing, primarily focusing on single cannabinoids like CBD or THC.
Innovation Solution
Consumable food articles infused with a precise blend of cannabinoids, leveraging the entourage effect, using a 'building block' approach to combine cannabinoids like Delta-8 THC, CBG, THCV, HHC, and others in specific ratios to achieve customizable and dynamic effects, enhanced by terpenes and muscimol, with nanoemulsification for improved bioavailability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single cannabinoid is used in the product, then the manufacturing process is simple and the product formulation is straightforward, but the psychoactive experience is limited and lacks customization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the cannabinoid experience into distinct components by using multiple individual cannabinoids (THC, CBD, CBG, CBN, THCV) rather than a single compound. Each cannabinoid provides specific effects that can be independently controlled and combined to create customized psychoactive profiles, allowing consumers to tailor their experience while maintaining manageable formulation complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite materials by creating synergistic blends of multiple cannabinoids in specific ratios. This composite approach leverages the entourage effect where combinations of cannabinoids produce enhanced and customized psychoactive experiences that cannot be achieved with single cannabinoids alone, thereby improving adaptability while the standardized blend ratios control formulation complexity.
2Speed
If conventional extraction methods are used, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the onset time is delayed and bioavailability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by transitioning from conventional extraction to supercritical fluid extraction using carbon dioxide. This method alters the physical parameters of the extraction process (temperature, pressure, solvent state) to achieve superior extraction efficiency, faster onset times, and enhanced bioavailability while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through a well-established industrial process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical extraction methods with supercritical fluid extraction technology. This substitution uses carbon dioxide in a supercritical state to penetrate plant material more effectively, extracting cannabinoids with higher efficiency and faster rates, thereby reducing onset time while the process remains relatively simple and scalable for manufacturing.
3Manufacturing precision
If standard dosing methods are used, then the dosing process is simple, but the dosing consistency is poor and effects are unpredictable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating and pre-mixing cannabinoids in precise ratios during the manufacturing process. This advance preparation ensures consistent dosing in the final product, as the exact cannabinoid composition is established before consumption. The standardized blend formulations allow for precise dosing control without requiring complex dosing devices or systems at the consumer level.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Provides a customizable and consistent consumer experience with enhanced psychoactive and therapeutic effects, offering a diverse range of experiences from relaxation to energy and wellness, with precise control over onset times and dosing.
Implementation Method 1
nanoemulsification for improved bioavailability
Data Source
AI summary
Described herein are consumable food articles that are infused with a plurality of cannabinoids. The food articles described herein harness a synergistic blend of multiple cannabinoids. The food articles provide a customizable and dynamic consumer experience, with enhanced control over the psychoactive and therapeutic effects, consistent dosing, and improved onset times. The food articles will cater to a more diverse consumer base, seeking both nuanced recreational experiences and specific health benefits, thereby expanding the current scope of the cannabis consumable product market.