is this true???

[Not Enough Herb]

"Green Dragon can be boiled down to a thick liquid and poured over cannabis to increase its psychotropic effects."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dragon

^ does anyone know if this is true. something about putting a flame to something made out of alcohol just doesnt sound so appealing. But maybe you can make it so concentrated it wouldnt explode.

i have no idea, feedback is much needed because putting green dragon on top of your weed would really give it a kick, even if it was shitty.

[MastaChronic]

ive never heard of that, maybe they have it mixed up with honey oil.
man, i put some honey oil on my buds and they burn forever.

[slipknotpsycho]

when i was refining my 'scraping' techniques i boiled down resiny-alcohol (although, in comparison, it was basicly just alcohol... lol) over a direct flame and guess what! nothing happened... just because it can cause a fire, doesn't mean it will... i'm not saying to go out and do what i did, maybe i just got lucky.... just saying, just because you are warned against something, doesn't mean if you go against it, it will DEFINATELY happen... only info i got to offer on the subject (seemed sorta relevant because of : something about putting a flame to something made out of alcohol just doesnt sound so appealing.)

[Not Enough Herb]

the only way to find something out is to do it yourself i guess

im making some green dragon tomorrow, so i should post back soon with results.

if anyone else has tried this or knows anything about it please post it!!

[Frivolous248]

Dude I don't know, I mean, its a THC extraction isn't it? But then again', who ever heard of smoking cannabutter?

I've heard of people saying they soak weed in whiskey and shit 'cause it like, gets you higher or some shit, but thats just silly.

I really wouldn't bother though...if your gonna make green dragon, just drink the results...you can smoke normal weed to begin with.

[Not Enough Herb]

yea but if green dragon can be a punch up to normal weed, why wouldnt you want that.

you could turn swchag weed into decent mids with just a couple drops :)

i think its at least worth lookin in to, why stay in the same place when u can keep walking forward?

[Mosiah]

I don't know for certain, but if you really think about it.. say your mixture doesnt blow up, you are putting THC over heat and evaporating the substance it is suspended in..

[Not Enough Herb]

I don't know for certain, but if you really think about it.. say your mixture doesnt blow up, you are putting THC over heat and evaporating the substance it is suspended in..

thc is suspened in hash oil

you can light that and it gets you fuckin high!

so that kinda makes this seem more possible

[Mosiah]

thc is suspened in hash oil

you can light that and it gets you fuckin high!

so that kinda makes this seem more possible

You are talking about boiling the mixture with THC down into a sticky substance, right? If the THC is in suspension with the liquid, when it evaporates the THC is probably going with it.

I could be 100% wrong, though.

[Mr. Elliot]

... yes this is true. Green Dragon is high proof alchohol with cannabinoids dissolved in it. Alchohol(Ethanol in this case) evaporates a temperature around room temp. This means boilings the mixture boils off all the ethanol and small amount of water, leaving only cannabinoids and various other plant matierial that was extracted. It is exactly the same as honey oil. To make honey oil you used a organic solvent to dissolve cannabinoids and then evaporate it off. Using ethanol is just a bit different because it is the only one that can be drank safely without having to evaporate it out. Basically (incase the previous paragraph was just me being too high), Yes you can but you have boil the greendragon until all the alchohol is gone, but it is dumb because there are plenty of other more effective organic solvents to get the same effect.

[Nochowderforyou]

Yes, that staement makes sense (original thread post). The thick liquid they are referring to is called Oil. Now, most people make oil using either butane, or isopropanol, both which have a high % of alcohol in it. To extract THC, you soak the material (plant or hash) in the alcohol, and it compresses all of the THC into a small amount of this thick liquid, known as oil.

Making a green dragon then boiling down or burning away the alcohol will leave you with this high potent oil. It can be smoked alone, or spread on top of a bowl, or smeared evenly on a paper for an extra kick.

If you want to make this oil, it is quicker using either butane or Iso. Making a green dragon takes a few weeks. Using either the butane or Iso, takes about 15min.

Keep in mind that alcohol is flammable, so if you are going to boil away the alcohol for an extract, do it outside. The fumes can build up in your house and with a simple spark, ka-boom.

To make a green dragon most people soak it in a 40% alcohol content drink. Using Iso or Butane, mainly Iso, has a 99% alcohol content in it, so the results are even better than using a 40% hard drink. And no, Iso is not drinkable and you cannot get drunk from it. They add something else to it just for that reason.

[Storm Crow]

Way back when I was a young hippie, we used to save the stems from our $65 kilos and put them in vodka. After soaking for a week or two, we'd remove the stems and evaporate the vodka down (this was San Diego with warm weather) by setting it on the fridge with cheesecloth over it to keep out the dust. Eventually, someone would remember it and an ounce of pot was mixed into the last of the vodka. That would be dried and we thought it made the pot a bit stronger.