Every document the Cannabis Device Safety Institute publishes lives here. White papers, founding-draft methodology, the position paper pipeline, and the field lexicon. Citation-stable URLs. Open for review.
Foundational Documents
The Cannabis Device Safety Gap
The founding white paper. Why hardware safety is the problem nobody owns, and the structural argument for an independent standards institute.
Loaded-State Off-Gas Analysis Protocol
CDSI's founding-draft analytical methodology for cannabis concentrate vaporizers. Open for HIIMR scientific review and inter-lab replication.
CDSI Lexicon
The terminological foundation of the field — Hardware Vacuum, Loaded-State Off-Gas, Pyrolytic Reservoir, the Humboldt Model, and ~25 other coined or reframed terms.
Position Papers
The Hardware Vacuum
Why cannabis consumption devices have no safety standard. The institutional gap, the structural reasons, and why an independent institute is the only available remedy.
Loaded-State Off-Gas
A proposed methodology for cannabis concentrate vaporizer characterization. Companion to the CDSI-001 standard. Targeting peer review at Journal of Analytical Toxicology.
Adulterant Amplification
How EVALI could have been caught. A counterfactual analysis arguing that pre-market loaded-state testing would have detected the device-mediated reaction that drove the 2019 outbreak.
The Pyrolytic Reservoir
Why single-draw testing underestimates real-world hardware risk. Forthcoming.
Heater-Matrix Coupling
A survey across three concentrate formats. Awaiting empirical data generation in Year One.
Provenance Certification
A tier-graded alternative to binary pass/fail certification marks. Forthcoming alongside the CDSI certification mark launch.
Citation
All CDSI documents are open. The canonical citation form is:
Macosko, M. (2026). The Cannabis Device Safety Gap. Cannabis Device Safety Institute white paper v1.0. Retrieved from https://cdsi.click/whitepaper/
Documents reference the founding artifact, ALS Environmental service request P1605022 (November 30, 2016), where the methodology descends from it.