im_shpongled
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This thread is a the place for all questions about extracts or tinctures of cannabis made using ethyl alcohol for oral use. There's a lot of info here, much of it repetitive, but that should only make it easier to find what you need.
For questions/discussion about any other kind of oral cannabis, see this thread:
[MEGA] Edibles/Oral Cannabis
Vader
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Alright so I'm trying to make some green dragon. There's so many different procedures for this online that I couldn't decide which one to follow and just kind of winged it.
Anyway, we took a 5th of everclear and poured out about 3 shots of it. So there's around 20-21 ounces left which has an 8th of some very good weed soaking in it. I took the weed and rubbed it through this tea strainer type thing. The resulting product had the consistency of flour, so it's about as ground up as possible.
First off, how high would one shot of this stuff get you? I want it to get to the point where you can get extremely baked off of one shot, since one shot of this already has about 2.5 shots of vodka's worth of alcohol in it. I'm thinking it might need less liquor and more weed, but I can't find a sure answer anywhere.
Second, how much of the THC will be absorbed by the alcohol, and how much do you traditionally get by smoking it? I've heard somewhere that smoking the weed only gives you about 30% of the THC and the rest is destroyed, but I can't confirm that. I did the math and calculated that the amount of THC that should wind up in this bottle would be the same that you would absorb by smoking almost 12 grams. However, I'm going on the assumption that you only get 30% smoking it and that you get 100% through an alcohol extraction, so if none of that is true then my numbers mean nothing.
Third, how long does it have to sit in the bottle for? With the weed as finely ground as ours was, I would assume that the vast majority of the THC dissolved in the alcohol within the first few hours. All of the recipes online say to leave it sitting there for multiple weeks or up to a month which seems extremely excessive.
And finally, if I did fuck this up a little bit, is there anything I can do to make it more concentrated other than just adding more weed?
Thanks if you stuck with me this long.
For questions/discussion about any other kind of oral cannabis, see this thread:
[MEGA] Edibles/Oral Cannabis
Vader
...
Alright so I'm trying to make some green dragon. There's so many different procedures for this online that I couldn't decide which one to follow and just kind of winged it.
Anyway, we took a 5th of everclear and poured out about 3 shots of it. So there's around 20-21 ounces left which has an 8th of some very good weed soaking in it. I took the weed and rubbed it through this tea strainer type thing. The resulting product had the consistency of flour, so it's about as ground up as possible.
First off, how high would one shot of this stuff get you? I want it to get to the point where you can get extremely baked off of one shot, since one shot of this already has about 2.5 shots of vodka's worth of alcohol in it. I'm thinking it might need less liquor and more weed, but I can't find a sure answer anywhere.
Second, how much of the THC will be absorbed by the alcohol, and how much do you traditionally get by smoking it? I've heard somewhere that smoking the weed only gives you about 30% of the THC and the rest is destroyed, but I can't confirm that. I did the math and calculated that the amount of THC that should wind up in this bottle would be the same that you would absorb by smoking almost 12 grams. However, I'm going on the assumption that you only get 30% smoking it and that you get 100% through an alcohol extraction, so if none of that is true then my numbers mean nothing.
Third, how long does it have to sit in the bottle for? With the weed as finely ground as ours was, I would assume that the vast majority of the THC dissolved in the alcohol within the first few hours. All of the recipes online say to leave it sitting there for multiple weeks or up to a month which seems extremely excessive.
And finally, if I did fuck this up a little bit, is there anything I can do to make it more concentrated other than just adding more weed?
Thanks if you stuck with me this long.
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