Adabinol has made its long-awaited return to Portland dispensary shelves, and if you’ve never heard of Adabinol, the label on the bottle is kind enough to provide two descriptions: It’s a “NanoEnhanced Tincture” and a “Cannabinoid Syrup,” and it’s made by longtime Ashland producer Dirty Arm Farm, which released a similar product in 2015 known as Lean Back Sizurp. (With apologies to A Tribe Called Quest’s “Check the Rhime,” Adabinol is not sizzurp, not even a drop. If you call it that, then stop. More on that in a minute…)
Adabinol is a top-shelf cannabis offering, with serious benefits to both medical and recreational consumers. Dirty Arm has earned a well-deserved reputation for its concentrates, having won the Dope Cup in 2015 and 2016 for their live resin. They make their products from what they grow in their sun-exposed greenhouses, using cutting-edge production techniques and growing practices that help define “craft cannabis”—forgoing premixed nutrients and chlorinated water during the growing process, and curating strains with what owner/founder Jaimie Syken writes are “strong beneficial cannabinoid effects.” He says Dirty Arm “only uses top-shelf flower and never trim” in their products, and maintains consistent quality levels by keeping everything in house and single-sourced—a seed-to-syrup model, if you will.
Syken adds, “Our Adabinol formula utilizes nanotechnology to be readily accessible to the endocannabinoid system at a cellular level… so activation and absorption can be more immediate and effective. Effects can be felt from oral mucosal absorption as soon as it hits your mouth.”
This is true. I put a serving in my mouth as I was getting ready to walk out the door, and I felt the effects before I found my keys and coat.
