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Justin Marsh, Aaron Palmer and Graham Jennings in their Tacoma extraction facility.
OLEUM EXTRACTS
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hen it comes to Oleum, to say that it’s “just oil” might be the understatement of the year. Rooted in Seattle’s early medical Cannabis program and pushing the limits today with technology and passion for concentrates, Oleum is celebrating a decade of dabs with a new brand Neon, and continuing their commitment to leading by example with consistently top shelf extracts.
Candyland Honey Crystal
APR. 2023
Long before Cannabis was legal, the early medical Cannabis program attracted innovators and risk takers to grow a plant that had landed many in prison – but was also helping cancer patients and freethinkers seeking relief from pain or illness that rejected the dominating pharmaceutical dogma.
It’s from those rebel roots that Owner/CEO Graham Jennings and Owner/Head Scientist Aaron Palmer began experimenting with processing hash underneath their dispensary on Seattle’s Rainier Ave in the early 2010s. At that time, most dispensaries were limited to flower and canna-butter Oleum is a classic edibles – the vape cartridge had Latin word yet to be invented, and people meaning oil, which were still extracting Rick Simpson oil with Naptha. It was Jennings makes sense given and Palmer’s creative minds that the brand's motto pushed them to innovate and find ways to extract the essence of “No additives, of the plant using science and just oil.” solvents that kickstarted the concentrate movement in Washington. As one of the first brave processors using butane to open blast BHO, the duo were not satisfied with the early technology or risk of explosions, and set their minds to creating their own systems and learning how to apply already existing chemistry to the world of Cannabis. Together, Jennings and Palmer created and