Petition to Stop Using 'Extract' and 'Concentrate' Interchangeably.

I believe when talking about pretty much every form of hash oil, the term, "extract" is correct and, "concentrate"doesn't quite fit.

The example I like to use is Orange Juice. Juice is EXTRACTED from oranges, you are left with the juice and the pulp and peel, etc. the Juice can then be made into CONCENTRATE by removing the water content, and reconstituted into juice, but you can never get the original orange back.

If you apply this to cannabis, oil is extracted from the flower, you now how have plant material and oil. It could be argued that any further refinement or distillation could be considered and "concentration". But you still have a, "cannabis extract concentrate", not a "cannabis concentrate".

Thoughts? lol.

These are the strictest definitions I could find in a 2 min search, some dictionaries don't distinguish very well but most definitions for either word fit my argument.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/extract :
noun
11.
a solution or preparation containing the active principles of a drug, plant juice, or the like; concentrated solution:
vanilla extract.
12. a solid, viscid, or liquid substance extracted from a plant, drug, or the like, containing its essence in concentrated form:

http://www.chemicool.com/definition/extraction.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extract

Google:
noun
noun: concentrate; plural noun: concentrates
1.
a substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, especially food.

http://www.chemicool.com/definition/concentration.html
http://www.chemicool.com/definition/dilution.html

It's really a resinoid. That's what a solvent extract of resinous botanical material is called. Extract would be too vague a term, because it could refer to a water extract. I guess the same could be said for concentrate. The only way to know that it's a lump of plant resin is if it's called Cannabis resinoid. Probably the "oid" part is because there are other things in it besides resin, like probably waxes and essential oils.

Good luck with that...lol

Splitting hairs, id say...

Extract is the method. Concentrate is the product. Your extracting a more pure, or concentrated form of a compound.leaving the less desireables behind.
But yes splitting hairs I agree

I disagree. I guess my issue is with the semantics of calling it, "cannabis" concentrate. It is cannabis extract and may contain a "concentration" of cannabinoids.

As long as I understood which extract or concentrate they were talking about, I was fat dumb and happy, until locally Oregon passed laws spelling out exactly how they were going to interpret those two words, so I didn't bother voting.