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 independent 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.
The Keystone Pair
Two papers, published together, carrying the Institute's foundational scientific claim: hardware characterization is not only a safety activity — it is a precondition for valid research into inhaled cannabis at all. P-011 is the argument. P-012 is the program of work that follows from it. Read in order.
The Reference Device
Why hardware characterization is a precondition for cannabis efficacy research. In an uncharacterized device, every measured outcome has two candidate sources — the medicine and the machine. That is an attribution failure, and no sample size fixes it.
The Attribution Chain
The four characterizations that precede an honest human answer: the device, the material, the two together under heat, then the person. Heat is a reagent, not a transport mechanism — so the third link cannot be derived from the first two. It has to be measured.
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. Residue chars onto the element and re-cooks on later draws. A methodological argument — predictions, not data. The empirical companion needs a bench we don't yet have.
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 marks — publish what was tested, by whom, and how. A design proposal: the mark does not exist and no device has been certified.
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.