Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
This process of isomerization, with sulfuric acid, is described in the link i posted in one of the first posts. I would like to try it, but havent any acid here... anyway, just heating the hash oil in boiling water for some 2 hours always does the trick for me... i dont know if ALL cannabinoids are converted to THC, but i can assure it makes the hash oil FAR stronger... :stoned:
I'm not very familiar with hash oil, but I have read some of your other posts about it. It sounds like after you do the extraction, you have a sticky ball of hash oil resin. When you do the isomerization, do you just put that ball of resin in some water and boil it for 2 hours? Is anything extracted into the water, such as impuritites? Are you able to discard the water and recover all the resin? Is there any loss to the amount of hash oil?

It sounds like you get good results from this process, and I want to duplicate those results with the green dragon liqueur I make. I am wondering if part of the improvement you get is from removing some impuities, as well as isomerizing some of the cannabinoids. I imagine this process would remove any left over acetone residue. I think also some of the other cannabinoids in some strains of weed can block the attachemnt of the good forms of THC onto the nerve receptors. So even if this process does not actually CONVERT those to more active isomers, I wonder if it REMOVES them, making the good isomers of THC more completely utilized by the body --- I do not know enogh about this chemistry/pharmacology to know if that could be true, but it is one idea I had.

Anyway, whatever is actually going on with the chemistry, it sounds like you have a successful method for boosting the potency of your hash oil. So congratulations on that!

If you could post a detailed description of your exact isomerization process for your hash oil, please do. Or if you already have posted it, could you post a link? I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . Isomerization process for Green Dragon? Does anyone know if there is a way to isomerize the cannabinoids in Green Dragon? I've found info about isomerizing honey oil, and I'm not interested in trying that. Those techniques involve a little more chemistry than I want to do. I'm looking for a standard kind of kitchen cooking technique that would boost the potency of Green Dragon, and does not involve solvents like butane or using hydrochloric acid or a chemistry apparatus like a reflux column, whatever that is. I already use Rating: 5