Solful Health tinctures
It has been fascinating to watch the cannabis market expand how we commune with the plant. Everyone knows about gummies, but few are aware of the multitude of benefits from cannabinoid tinctures.
Tinctures had once been a big part of medical applications of cannabis, but in the recreational dispensary era, the dropper-delivered products had fallen out of favor. Sebastopol-born cannabis brand Solful has bucked that trend with its Solful Health tincture line.
“We have hundreds of customers who use tinctures every day to manage their health,” said Solful founder Eli Melrod.
Most of Solful Health’s 10 full spectrum formulas are designed to be non-intoxicating, and several include the lesser known “acidic cannabinoids,” such as THCA and CBDA, compounds which each are meant to bring their own health benefits.
According to the National Institutes of Health, tinctures offer benefits over edibles and flower, including a more rapid onset via sublingual absorption versus digestion and more precise dosing than burning or vaping. In this writer’s experience, tinctures provide the purest cannabis experience available, without the drawbacks of sugar- and chemical-laden gummies, or lung-irritating smoke and vape.
The medical use of cannabis is personal for Melrod.
“I was inspired by my father, who used cannabis effectively to help him during his pancreatic cancer treatment in 2004,” said Melrod. “He is still alive today and has been a medical cannabis patient now for 22 years.”
In that spirit and with the wish to provide that hope for others, the brand’s newest formula, Relief, promises “profound effects” by blending THCA, CBDA, and, for the first time commercially available anywhere, the acidic version of THCV, THCVA.
It is less complicated than it may sound. Just take three times a day, said Mario Cardenas, general manager of the San Francisco branch on Irving Street. “Once it saturates the blood, you start to get the full benefits throughout the day.” — Michael Giotis
Solful opens their third Sonoma County location in Petaluma this spring, adding to Sebastopol and Healdsburg. Grand Opening is April 10–12.
