Our Lab

Pacific Hills Farms owns and operates its own laboratory to test, distill, and package CBD in-house. With an integrated team, our lab work directly informs our farming and vice versa. This gives us the agility to test  throughout the growing season and to provide our customers with traceable sourcing in every product.

Furthermore, a growing body of non-clinical research has been performed in recent years suggesting pharmacological effects from CBD.  This research focuses mostly on in vitro and in vivo studies performed within the confines of academic laboratory settings, meaning their results have not been verified to have the same effects within humans.  From these studies, CBD has been found to exhibit neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic properties, among others.  These findings illustrate the therapeutic potential of CBD within the human body.  Another promising indication of CBD’s potential is the 2018 FDA approval for the prescription drug Epidiolex.  This drug uses a purified form of CBD to treat patients suffering from specific forms of epilepsy. Now that hemp cultivation has been legalized, we can expect more research will be completed that will further our understanding of the therapeutic benefits of CBD within the human body.

Another potential component to CBD’s promising health benefits centers around the “entourage effect”.  This term describes the synergic effect when CBD is combined with other compounds from cannabis, mainly terpenes and other non-THC cannabinoids.  Terpenes impart the aromatic character to many plants, with cannabis sharing several terpenes also found in hops, citrus fruits, pine trees, and cinnamon.  Terpenes predominantly found in cannabis include limonene, beta-myrcene, beta-caryophyllene, alpha-pinene, and linalool. Non-clinical experimental evidence has shown that these terpenes exhibit similar effects to CBD, such as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and anxiolytic effects.  Some terpenes also have demonstrated antibacterial properties. The theory behind the entourage effect is that a particular combination of cannabinoids and terpenes elicit an increased effect over pure CBD by interacting with the human body through separate mechanisms (1) to increase the effectiveness of CBD or (2) to elicit a similar biological response.

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