Where It All Began
It started with a dirty bong, one viewer, and an ambitious agenda. Bubbleman's first-ever live broadcast kicked off with plans to cover the endocannabinoid system, cannabis extraction, and the booming world of artistic glass. By the end, 93 people were tuned in.
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The episode's sharpest argument was a pushback against the cannabis world's CBD obsession. Bubbleman's position: cannabis contains 80–90 cannabinoids and around 300 terpenes, and the healing effects people credit to CBD are almost certainly the result of all of them working together — what's known as the entourage effect.
Isolating one compound and giving it all the credit misses the point — and in some cases, like a mother treating her three-year-old's brain tumour with CBD-only medicine while avoiding THC (the compound with actual tumour-reducing evidence behind it), it can lead people away from more effective treatment.
The endocannabinoid system itself, he explained, maintains biological homeostasis. The body produces its own cannabinoids from essential amino acids — omega-3s and omega-6s. Phytocannabinoids from cannabis support and extend that system. It's less about getting high, more about keeping the body in balance.
Keep the Grapes, Lose the Worms
Hash-making was covered in characteristically precise detail. Water extraction (bubble hash) naturally achieves near-pure trichome separation — the water does the work. Dry sift is harder, requiring further refinement to remove plant material.
"Get rid of the worms, keep the grapes."
Pure trichome heads look like grape clusters under a microscope. Plant debris looks like worms. Simple, memorable, correct. Solvent extractions and live resin got a mention too — even the lowest-solvent oils still carry a molecular footprint you can taste. Terpene extraction was flagged as the emerging frontier, with Skunkman Sam having predicted a decade earlier that terpenes were the future.
Real People, Real Stakes
What grounded the episode was the human element. One guest was six days off 400mg of daily morphine, finding that cannabinoids gave better mobility than opioids. Another was heading into a university thesis on the endocannabinoid system. Another was building out a medical cannabis lab. These weren't abstract conversations.
Five hundred episodes later, that mix of science, craft, and honest personal experience is still what Hash Church is about.