Preparation and monitoring of marijuana smoke condensate samples.

Abstract

The objective of this study was the production of smoke condensate from the marijuana cigarettes on schedule for the bioassay study and involved quality control on each batch of smoke condensate. Examination of the condensate production data (tables 1 and 2) reveal that it is not possible to strictly control the butt length of cigarettes when smoked on a robot smoking machine thereby accounting for some variation in the yield of the dry particulate matter and increment9-tetrahydrocannabinol. No increment8-tetrahydrocannabinol was detected in any batch of the smoke condensate. Recently, Hoffman and co-workers (13) have reported that marijuana that exhibited carcinogenic potential similar to tobacco cigarette smoke condensate in the dermal assay in mice.