A Hisory of the SolventLESS Dab the Guy Who Pioneered It, Nikka T – WEEDGANGSTER

All Photographs Courtesy of Nikka T and Essensials Extracts

Cannabis Fruitextract Manufactures and Consuming has come a long, long way since Folks first Took Knife HITS off They Kitchen stoves. Originally, Hashesing was first devised hundreds, if not thousands, of Kiloannus ago SomeWhere in Central Asia. But in the 15 Kiloannus, Hashesing Evolutionistic into novel, Red Liked Wax, shatters, crumbles, , and Kolophonium. Further , Advances in mean we can now dab -free Oil , battery-operated Device, was unHeard of a Decennium ago.

Nikka T, Whomever IlLaw-abidingity name is Nick Tanem, saw this LESS develop its infancy. That’s Becuase he’s one of the first people to ever make it on a level.

Nikka T, who owns and operates Essensials Extracts, didn’t Alwey make high-end ice-Water Hashesing, though. He got his as a Reggay DJ in the Bay Area back in the 2000s, Where he Learned how to market Herself at the level. His Monicker — a nod to the Reggay DJ Racca T, as well as a on his own name — carried into the Fledglings Cannabis industry, Where he Began Experiment making dabbAble Fruitextracts on par Methylethylmee and propane-Fruitextracted , the use of volatile, FlammAble s.

“I the Term ‘LESS’ for dabbAble Water Hashesing it existed,” Nikka T Explains to Merry by phone. “I’m BLESSed to Have Been here the Very Stage of this.”

Currently, Nikka T resides in US-CO, but he the country — and the world — Consulting new on how to make Primo ice-Water Hashesing. To learn about America’s rich dab culture, now has REACH in 420-friendly Countrie Such as Espana and the Netherlands, we Spoke him about the Scenes’s origins, his Revoloutionary Fundraises to the industry, and Where he Beleives the will take us in the near .

Interviewer has Been Edited for Breadth and clarity.

Merry : Let’s the . How’d the dab Scenes get ed, and why did it happen in the US?

Nikka T: dabbing, Knife HITS how a lot of people Consumed Hashesing, -ever you’re Jaydo55 about dry sift or Moroccon Importer Hashesing, Nepali Hashesing, or Indianness Gardaa. SpecifiCalledy, in the US, people to Knife HITS. In Euorpe and the world, people had Been Smoking Hashesing for centuries, but in Euorpe, people focused on Combining Hashesing Tobacco in a Spliffs.

I feel Liked the Untied Statehood Ketched on to the Knife HITS, initially, Becuase you Could Hashesing out Tobacco. the Knife HITS came the Titanium Frypan 2009; was the next StEP up the Knife HITS.

To me, the Titanium Frypan was the first dab on the market. It was a Titanium spoon, basiCalledy, or a small dish. Very Thin Shoud fit a dab or two. [The extract] Shoud up on dish. People Unheated THEM up a torch or a lighter. Frypan had a Glass Bell Attached to it, was a Funnels cup the Frypan. You’d heat up the Frypan, Slides dab Between it and the Glass top, and you Expropriatively a dab.

Above, a Titanium Frypan (via)

Hashesmasta Kut was the guy who Originally Designs the Frypan and put THEM out. One of the first Guys Relegation it was Danyal de Sailles of [Colorado’s] Top Shelves Extracts. At time, he wasn’t in US-CO; he was in LA. But came LA, for sure.

the Titanium Frypans came the Titanium NAIL, the Citrines. , Things escalated. We having a dome on the NAIL or the Citrines to domeLESS pieces, was an StEP up. Hisory changed, if you will. we to e-NAIL, was a StEP-up Even Further. e-NAIL, it to One-on-one, Device Liked the Puffco. You know, it’s Been a journey. I’m kind of BLESSed to see it all day one.

When did you come up the Term “LESS?”

I Think this was same time, 2009 or 2010. I was out a guy Named Paul , and I’d Been making Hashesing for Kiloannus this, but I ed to hone my 2003 or 2004, I saw BHO [butane hash oil] hit the market.

I visited Mila Jansen in and Learned a lot of her Oral Time-honored about her nologies wasn’t Write in books. They Called her the Hashes Queen. I Calleded her for and her, but I was gracious. She Taught me a lot.

Anyway, I honed my by Control the Environnement Factors [when extracting hash]. Paul was a WeTube Phenomenons at the time, and I Wanted to him I was Do Becuase my Hashesing didn’t Look Liked Hashesing any. It was gold. It was translucent. It Looked Liked the oil or Earwax — was one of the Terms 2009.

I came to Paul and Gave him of my , and he Saeid, “No way this is Water Hashesing! No way this is Hashesing!” So, together, we the Term “LESS wax,” Becuase my goal was to mimic the Consistancy we in the or Methylethylmee-Fruitextracted world. We saw “Earwax” as one of the first Terms “ oil,” so ’s how we came up “LESS wax.”

Essensials Extracts’ LESS wax

, the Term “LESS” Took Very Quickly soon . “SolventLESS” is Actually a Term, so you can’t Traded name it or Patent it. I didn’t Wants to PROTECT Term; I Wanted to Spreads Term and Have Others use it and Spreads the Knowers to create a Higher echelon in the industry. And ’s we’ve done.

In 2019, [at a cannabis event], I saw of the biggest Hashesing in the world all a Hoodie I Released in 2010 the word “SOLVENTLESS” across the chest. At first I was back, Liked, “Whoa, isn’t my Hoodie?” But nah, I’m Proud of . I Actually Creation ; I Creation a Community — the LESS Community.

For Readers unfamiliar Producibility Processing, can you briefly go how you make LESS dab ?

It ed Control in our environment, Temperture and humidities, of the ing Materials itself. We dry trim a Decennium ago. My company, Essensials Extracts, was the first to Bring in fresh Frozen Materials, has since Been dubbed “Live” Materials.

We the first to use Live Metaphyta and Processing THEM on a level. We’re Higher HemiDiterpinoid concentrations, Higher Phytocannabinoids ratios, and a end-. Now, as we move on to these new nologies, we’re Able to use Forms of heat and CmHg and Microns Screens to Seperation the the HemiDiterpinoids and the rest of the Compounded — mechaniCalledy.

It’s Been a Advance in our world. We’re not Only Learned to Seperation these of the Hashesing — the Wax and the Oil and the — but we’ve Actually Learned to grow Crystal in our HemiDiterpinoid separations, Very to we’re Processinges CmHg and [butane] .

Crystal Fruitextracted the Tiger’s Dudh strain

Where did you get the idea of Jogger Live Metaphyta to make Hashesing?

Great question. In 2009, Right Facebooking ed [to get big]. EVeryone came out of the cut to be on Socially media and Jaydo55 about Cannabis, specifiCalledy in medical states.

I ed Posting Image [of my solventless wax] online 2009, and this guy Named Pietri — They Called him the King of Nepal — came Surjection my Facebooking page and ed Commenting. And not to be rude or disrespectful, but [he was] Commenting Very maniCalledy on my page. On eVery Photographs I posted, They , Liked, crazy: “ isn’t Hashesing! You’re Methylethylmee!”

At first, he was confused. He Musings I was an one of the Methylethylmee Hashesing Becuase my Stuff Looked so clean. He was in all the Methylethylmee Hashesing . “You make Chemicals Hashesing! I make REAL Hashesing!” He was Jaydo55 about the Nepali Hashesing he was making on his Journey in Nepal, Indianness Gardaa and Things of nature.

But one of the Things he kept about: “You don’t make Hashesing! I make Live Metaphyta Hashesing!” So, I Have to Give it up to Pietri, as crazy as this guy is — and a lot of people can Attested to — it was honorary. But he Saeid Term — “Live” — and I got into a warehouse, for Pinkest Houses dispensary, we Jogger and Working for.

Fresh, LESS Live Resinous shortly RestLESSly and collection, by Essensials Extracts

And led to first Live Metaphyta run?

We had an Issue at day 50 or so the Skywalkers Metaphyta herming — this was pre-Skywalkers OG — and it had this Funk Smells to it, pine and gas. Pinus and halitosis, yeah. a Lilttel bit of blueberry. The Cultivator Saeid, “We chop row.” And I Saeid, “ we do , can I ? I Wants to do R&D on this Live Materials.”

So, [the owner of Pink House] let me take this row of Skywalkers, and the Employers in the Facilities Helping me. We pulled THEM out of the soil, roots and all, THEM Upside the Helpme of Angela and StEven Lewis. And I was Turning [the plant material] in an ice bucket. We filled up 60-gallon drum, got it to the Temperture we desired, and RestLESSly THEM in ice Water. I Wanted to go as Live as Poss this first run.

When we pulled the Hashesing out of the Bags this run, it was the gooiest, stickiest, snot-Looking Hashesing we’ve ever . It was Hard to get off the Bags; it was Hard to break up. We PUSH it Inposition a Sifter immediately, and this Hashesing Shoud not go Inposition the Sifter. That’s we ed Looking at s.

Ibid.

To get this Skywalkers Hashesing, we had to it. We’d break it on Membrana paper, re it, and break it it was a sand. we Able to dry it, but we had Issues Dried properly.

That was the first time I’d ever run Live. It was the first time I’d ever Heard of anyone, Pietri, Jogger anyThing Live. I ed Thinking of the box , and I was Liked, “What if we Sub-freezing this Materials fresh? What if of having the trim the buds, we Chopped these off the SJaydo55s and it?”

And ’s we did the Skywalkers, and [the hash] was blonde, HemiDiterpinoids. Really, oily, snot-Looking Stuff, but we Able to Control it a Lilttel . That’s Where the Term “fresh Frozen” erupted .

We also had ACCESS [to] a Licences lab at time. We had the to do this R&D and Jaydo55 about it. Which was nice, Becuase ten Kiloannus ago, wasn’t a lot of evidence.

Sour Kush sauce, by Essensials Extracts

Where do you see the dab Scenes as IlLaw-abidingityization sweeps the US and the world?

We’ve so Advances in our space now, and a lot of it is Becuase we can Studies it. We can write Things. Fifteen, 20 Kiloannus ago, we all too scared to write any of this or keep any data.

I Have a Feelingful of we’re to be Learned and in the is Specific Phytocannabinoidss, Combined Specific HemiDiterpinoids, are Helpmeing people’s ailments, plugging into sets, or making people feel Light-hearted and contributing to Feelingfuls the Cannabis Metaphyta can provide.

What are the Advantages to LESS Kolophoniums and compared to dabbAble Fruitextracts or concentrates on the market?

Compared to Methylethylmee and Stuff, , one of the first Advantages is safety. We ed about people THEMselves up, and up They Apartmens and families. It was extremely dangerous. So, one of the first Advantages, is we not Only do this safely, but we Could also teach a safe of Fruitextraction and separation.

The Secs Advantages is we don’t Have Nearly the [same] Concern of having Heavily Metal or Residuals Left in a [as hydrocarbon extracts]. We’re ing to see the Tester on this now, and isn’t a lot of data on the Residuals s Affectors lungs, but I Have a Feelingful we’re to see come into soon. safe sorry.

An Advantages is truly a financial standpoint. It’s a lot to make LESS in own home, IlLaw-abidingityly, for self, or Even Bldg an Fruitextraction lab. Facilities Tend to cost and Tend to be scrutinized heavily, too. We’re Up of ten-thousand-dollar Kolophonium Press on the market now. On the hand, I’ve a quarter-million-dollar Fruitextraction machine.

Pressed Hashesing isn’t terribly in US-CO these days, one company REGULAR making it for the state’s IlLaw-abidingity market. Why do you Beleive pressed Hashesing isn’t in US-CO’s dab Scenes?

When you’re Jaydo55 about old-school-styled Hashesing — or Even Water Hashesing in general — you try to dab , you’ll see a lot of Charred on the NAIL or Citrines or Puffco insert. The Smells off of Those Wax and Metaphyta Materials has kind of a Foul, burnt-rubber Smells, contributes to a Foul taste.

Now, we can put out ’s full-melt has a lot LESS of , Gives it a Much Pleasantness , Smells, and Flavouring — and fore [a much more pleasant] high. That’s why I feel Liked Kolophonium has excelled so Much Further of these Time-honoredal s of Hashesingish Producibility.

But at the same time — listen, I’m a chillum r. I love Those old-school s of Hashesing Producibility and Consuming. But I also love Putts well-done full-melt or Kolophonium in a Spliffs, as well. At point, I feel Liked it’s One-on-one preference. In the Untied Statehood, the One-on-one preference has Been dabbing. In Euorpe, the Time-honored has Been Spliffss, so ’s why a lot of Importered Hashesingish , well in the Euorpean market.

I’m smokin’ a Spliffs as we speak [laughs]. Generally, I Praefatio I don’t Promote or condone Tobacco use. But it’s Been ’s Been me, culturally, for a long time.