Ok. Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm not done here lol. I'm sorry I don't have any cool pictures to help captivate your attention but bear with me here- I think I'm on to something. My windows pc has a nasty trojan mcaffe can't seem to peel off and my windows pc also keeps thermally overheating...

My first batch was executed the same way mobyone suggested- with barely enough oil to cover my weed. It came out black and got me and my wife plenty high, but wasted about a gram of weed which equals no savings...

Based on my theory of solubility however, I made a second batch. This time I started the same mix I made before, but after the oil turned dark and all, I added about 30% more oil. The oil was dark green when it was finished, but not the same brown. In the end, the mix didn't get me as intensely high as before, but it did work, and it produced a different high. (same weed used for both batches btw) A more of a couch lock spacey quiet high as opposed to an intense head high. Also it seemed to spread out over a longer time period- probably because my liver was keeping up with the slow steady trickling release of a less dense dose over a longer period of time.

My theory is this- you can adjust the type of high your mix will produce, but you are also limited to how fast your liver can metabolize the psychoactive components of your mix. Think of it like trying to push water through a funnel. It's limited by the maximum flow of the funnel. The more watered down with oil and less concentrated overall your mix is, the less heady the high will be. I think this is because your liver doesn't somehow process the THC first or last, but rather as it arrives throughout the mix. My belief is that the intense head high is produced (obviously) by your brain being flooded by as much THC byproducts at once. Also, another variable nobody else considered is that the waiting period before you get high, how high you get, and how long the high will last are also affected by your own individual body metabolism, which is also affected by diet, exorcise, and whether or not they smoke cigarettes- that is, a morbidly obese individual will have to eat more and wait longer to get high because their metabolism is slower, but their high might last longer because a slow metabolism will take longer to burn off the THC byproducts. Inversely; A skinny person who can't seem to gain a pound no matter how much they eat, will have a higher metabolism. That person will probably need to eat less and wait less time to get RIPPED but because their metabolism is so fast, the resulting high probably won't last as long as it would for others...

What does this mean to you? Experiment on your own using your own methods and your equipment. Once you find the happy midway point that works for you, play with it to adjust the resulting high! Less oil should produce a more intense 'heady' type high with lots of activity, and take less time to kick in. On the other hand- adding more oil to your verified (control) recipe will cause your liver to slowly trickle its way through the same amount of THC, thereby never producing the overwhelming head high that others desire, and instead, dragging a 'decent buzz' out over the course of more hours... Add too much oil though, and your mix will be too diluted for your liver to process the ingredients fast enough to give you any high whatsoever... A good parallel would be if you smoked one bowl by yourself and got somewhat high for an hour or two, versus spending an hour or two smoking the whole bowl- you just won't get as high. Well... with this recipe, too much oil and you won't get high at all because the liver is more sensitive to this time factor.

Anyway, I'm pretty committed to this project, so as soon as I can I'm going to do as much 'research' (lol) as I can and post my findings. Until then- best of luck to everyone else in your quest to make counterfeit marinol!

CHEERS!

-Mark