Some of the most respected cannabis brands include rosin as part of their product catalogs. It may be offered as a distillate, as a concentrate for dabbing, or as the infusion agent of other products ranging from pre-rolls to vaporizers. In essence, live rosin is a cannabis concentrate along the lines of resin, shard, budder, ice, and others; however, its extraction process is what sets it apart.
Rosin is a type of vegetable resin; it is more commonly associated with the substance extracted from pine trees, and you can find it in applications ranging from pine oil soap to coatings for wood treatments. In the cannabis industry, rosin is extracted from cured cannabis flowers or hash; here it should be noted that hash is a concentrate in and of itself, but it meets the curing requirement, which allows the cannabis chlorophyll to break down, thus creating a smoother dabbing, vaping, or smoking experience.
When rosin goes through a live extraction process, the buds are not cured; instead, they go through flash freezing that keeps them fresh, similar to how berries are frozen after harvest to keep them fresh before they reach supermarket shelves. The live process locks in a wider range of terpenes, the aromatic compounds that give cannabis strains their unique flavor profiles.
Going live with rosin means extracting the resinous oils from the trichomes, the tiny hair-like plant material that seeps after blooming and before seeding. What you get is a more complex flavor profile that can be described as brighter, fresher, and more nuanced than regular rosin.
