Aaron Appleby

About Aaron Appleby

In 2021, I became a licensed certified crop advisor with all of my required field experience in Cannabis, a feat I may have been the first to achieve (PROVE ME WRONG. Would love to meet you!). Recognizing the lack of research and dissemination of information from universities and extension to the cannabis industry, I created White Coat Laboratories a Cannabis research and consulting business. Specializing in creating custom integrated pest management programs specific to each company’s site of production and cultural practices. I utilize conservation biocontrol tactics, to create habitats that are attractive to native beneficials and deter pest. White Coat Laboratories is also studying plant volatiles and their involvement in plant defenses as well as arthropod attraction or deterrence. Scientific experimentation and data collection with appropriate analysis and application remain essential elements to all successful agricultural endeavors. By applying my understanding of chemical and ecological interactions occurring throughout the growth cycle of Cannabis sativa L. and knowing how these interactions contribute to specific selected characteristics of the plant, I aim to bring the best available science to the cannabis industry. I also believes that proper vocabulary and nomenclature around the plant is important and something that everyone should rally around with proper training and the sharing of information to drive public perception and further normalize the plant.I was chosen to judge the Washington Sun Cup in 20••••23 due to my ability to recognize top-shelf products and my reputation among my peers for staying current on product knowledge and methodologies. In 2013, I began introducing the ideas of terroir alongside the discussion of terpene profiles and entourage effect to replace the conversation of indica and sativa to describe psychotropic properties of different chemovars. By 2017, I was also expanding the conversation around secondary metabolites influencing the entourage effect to include flavonoids, anthocyanins and other medicinal components of Cannabis, a topic the industry is beginning to learn more about. I now champion the term ensemble effect over the entourage effect. Entourage, emphasizing a celebrity cannabinoid that is responsible for the psychotropic properties and their entourage chemicals that influence the main effects; while ensemble emphasizes the idea that every compound plays an equal role in the total psychotropic properties. An example of how vocabulary can influence thought and mislead consumers.

Experience

1. Certified Crop Adviser (License

   White Coat Laboratories

   Jan 2022 — Present · WA, US

Education

• Boise State University

  Associate of Science - AS, Botany

• Washington State University

  Doctor of Philosophy, Agronomy and Crop Science

• Washington State University

  Bachelor's degree, Organic Agriculture

• Washington State University

  Master's degree, Crop Science