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Five things we explain at the counter most weeks, written down so you can read them at your own pace. They are about the objects: the label, the jar, the lab report. They are not about you. For anything about you, ask a person: (828) 222-4367, or the counter at 2 Eagle Street.

• How to read a certificate of analysis

  What each part of a hemp lab report is for, which two lines do the legal work, and what to do when the paper and the jar disagree.

• THCa and Delta 9 THC, in plain terms

  One is what the plant makes and the other is what heat turns it into. That is why both are on the label and why the law counts them differently.

• Edibles and patience

  An edible is food, and food is on a slower clock. How to read the pack, what the milligrams mean, and what we say at the counter every single day.

• Storing flower so it is still good next month

  Glass, dark, cool, and the right humidity. Four things, and one of them is the one almost everybody gets wrong.

• What “solventless” means

  The word on a rosin jar is a claim about the method: water, ice, heat, pressure, and nothing else in the room. Here is what it does and does not tell you.