Feel free to correct me where I may be wrong, but I started this about two days, finished it and tried it today, so if I'm wrong somewhere, it still worked. I'll be doing more later that acid thing has got me thinking, I think I can make it a bit stronger still.


Green Dragon Process Exp. 1
By TryptamineScape
October 19, 2007



This is my first experiment in creating the perfect Green Dragon method. The recipes and methods I??ve found to alter and convert the Marijuana plant all worked very well. What I??m doing is not an experiment with a new method, but rather an experiment combining the existing methods of Marijuana alteration and conversion in order to perfect a Green Dragon method. Though a slight lengthy process, it??s not very complicated and was done with everyday household and kitchen items. What was produced worked very well. I will use the Green Dragon again at a later time to document dosage and give a trip report.

Supplies:
Coffee grinder (or something to chop the cannabis very fine)
7g Cannabis (I used the buds and the stems, putting the seeds aside)
Mortar and pestle (which I guess could be substituted with any bowl and something to mash the piss out of the weed)
Razor blade
Small baggy
Small hammer
2oz pure grain alcohol (Everclear, PGA, Moonshine, etc.)
Aluminum foil
1oz lemon juice
Panty hose


Process 1.
Begin by making sure the 7g of cannabis is dry. Wet cannabis will be hard to work with and take much longer to manage cooperation with.

The first thing I did was a variation of the kif gathering process, only I didn??t separate the kif from the plant matter. I allowed the two to bind into a mash of sorts.

Taking the 7g of cannabis, I broke it up by hand then ran it through the coffee grinder. Once it was ran through the coffee grinder, I scraped what kif was on the blades into the grinded weed/kif. I then ran all this back through the grinder. Once again I scraped all the powder and residue from the grinder. This left me with a nice, finely ground and powdery weed/kif mixture.

Next, I took my powdery weed/kif mixture and grinded it further by hand in the mortar and pestle. What I had left was a very fine, slightly sticky, powdery mash of what used to be buds. This should be almost as fine as kif alone, if that tells you how much grinding and mashing it should go through.



Process 2.
Taking the mash, I then put it into the small baggy and made sure I packed it down to the bottom as tight as I could get it without busting the bag.

Then, I rolled up the excess bag very tight into a small log of compressed weed/kif mash.

I proceeded to abuse the mash with a hammer. The objective is to beat it into a log of compressed and condensed ??hash?.

Be sure not to hit the bag extremely hard. The point isn??t to beat the weed into submission; the point is to semi-gently coax it into binding into an oily log. Don??t hit it very hard or the bag will just tear and you??ll have to start that over after you scrape your weed up from wherever it got blown to. I??ve found that it??s better if you hit it with the hammer and instead of pulling back to hit again, you mash a little. After about four or five hits, turn the bag over and repeat. It should go like, ??Hit, mash, Hit, mash, Hit, mash, Hit, mash, flip back over, repeat.? When the mash condenses, keep rolling the bag up tight. Don??t allow it to get too lose.

When this is done you??ll be left with a nice oily log of the mash.

Process 3.
I preheated oven to 325 degrees F.

Then I broke up and spread the mash out onto a sheet of aluminum foil.

Once the oven was preheated, I put another sheet of aluminum foil on top, making a sandwich of the mash between the two sheets of foil. I didn??t fold the edges up to close it, I left the sides open.

I placed this into the oven and baked it for about 5 minutes. Once the entire kitchen smelled like weed, it was time to take it out. This process is called decarboxylation, which is to remove the carboxyl group (univalent COOH, present in organic acids) from the organic compound. This is what converts the THCA to THC. Decarboxylation isn??t necessary, however converting the THCA to THC prior to the extraction process will add a strength to the final product.

I removed the mash from the oven and immediately placed it into 2oz of the room temperature alcohol (which is in a glass jar with no lid). By immediately going from the oven to the room temperature alcohol, I??ve cooled the mash down rapidly. This, I thought, would keep the acids bound into larger crystals until I got to the water bath process (just to make sure I lost absolutely nothing in evaporation in the few minutes it was in the open?might not be necessary).

I stirred the mash into the alcohol to get a good mix.


Process 4.
I placed the jar with the alcohol/mash into a pot of water on the stove.

I began to simmer the water around the alcohol/mash mix for 20 minutes.

As it simmered I learned two things. 1.) If there??s too much water in the pot, once it begins to heat and simmer the glass jar wants to float off; and 2.) The glass is hot, so when it starts floating, don??t stop it with your hand. I ended up using tongs to hold the jar in place. For future reference I noted that I will use a heavier glass or less water.

I maintained a steady temperature of 170 degrees F in the liquid inside the glass jar the entire 20 minutes.

When it was done simmering and the alcohol was down to about 1oz, I took it out of the water bath and strained it through a normal kitchen strainer.

After I strained it like that, I took the mash and squeezed it through a panty hose.

Just to be sure I got it all, after squeezing it through a panty hose, I divided the mash and squeezed each half through the panty hose individually.

What I ended up with was 1oz of a nice darkish green liquid that smelled a lot like Cannabis.

Process 5.
I then let the liquid set in the dark at room temperature for 24 hours.

After the 24 hours was up, I added 1oz of lemon juice to the liquid and returned it back to the water bath process for 30 minutes. This is the process of Isomerization, which is a conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself. The lemon juice acts as an added acid, while the extracted carboxyls (THC, Cannabinoids, etc.) act as the organic acid. The base is the alcohol. The addition of an acid to a mixture of organic acid and base will result in the acid remaining uncharged, while the base will be protonated. This adds hydrons to the atoms, which, in this case, increases its hydrophilicity (the ability to bind with water).

This time, I slightly covered the entire water bath pot. I left just enough room for some of the vapors to escape on one side. This increased the temperature closer to boiling inside the waterbath.

After this I added a bit more alcohol to raise the level back up some.
TryptamineScape Reviewed by TryptamineScape on . GD Process Exp1 (lenghty) Feel free to correct me where I may be wrong, but I started this about two days, finished it and tried it today, so if I'm wrong somewhere, it still worked. I'll be doing more later that acid thing has got me thinking, I think I can make it a bit stronger still. Green Dragon Process Exp. 1 By TryptamineScape October 19, 2007 This is my first experiment in creating the perfect Green Dragon method. The recipes and methods I??ve found to alter and convert the Marijuana plant all Rating: 5