Quote Originally Posted by Flameon
Hi Coelho how's it going?
I just wanted to ask about the method you're using to make 'honey oil', how easy you find it to make, and long it lasts for etc?
Hi Flameon! Nice to see you!
Well... i use the method ive described in the thread:
http://boards.cannabis.com/concentra...-hash-oil.html
The only differences is that i use a glass wine cup with a spherical bottom instead a dish to evaporate the acetone, cause i make only small amounts of it, and its easier to scrape it from a cup with smaller surface. If i evaporate the small amounts of acetone in a dish, the remaining layer of hash oil is too thin, and thus very difficult to scrape.
Also, i dont let the acetone evaporate by itself. I put this wine cup into a pan with water and heat the water with an electric water heater. So the boiling water heats and evaporates the acetone that is into the cup. It makes the process WAY faster, as usually the acetone takes 1-2 days to evaporate fully (depending on the room temperature and the amount of impurities it has). When i heat it, it evaporates in less than 1 hour.
I didnt said it in my thread because heating a flammable liquid as acetone is a very dangerous thing, and it must be done only by those who knows very well what theyre doing.

I think this way is pretty easy, in fact it seems one of the easiest methods to make it. And it lasts very much. Like... the amount of oil i get from 1g of weed lasts about one week of daily/twice-a-day use, or about 10-15 highs. Thats my secret for being high an entire year with only 2oz of weed :rastasmoke:

Quote Originally Posted by Flameon
I remember reading your posts in the threads regarding sub-lingual tinctures and the difficulty in getting the alcohol and glyicerin to mix together in a consistent emulsion, have you experimented again since then or do you have any thoughts on why they wouldn't blend evenly?

I read in a scientific journal about somebody working on a similar technique and they added small amounts of olive oil to help the two 'emulsify', but it only had a limited success.
I fancy giving this a try myself and hoped you might be able to give me some pointers.
Well... what happened is the hash oil dissolved very well in pure alcohol. When i added the glicerin, some of hash oil would precipitate, depending on how much glicerin i added. As i wished to make a tincture only with glicerin, i had to heat the mixture, so the alcohol would evaporate. But as the alcohol evaporated the hash oil dissolved in it would precipitate, instead to remain dissolved in the glicerin. So, when all the alcohol had evaporated, i had almost pure glicerin and a lot of hash oil precipitated in the bottom of the test tube.
I didnt test putting olive oil, but maybe it would be worth a try.
And i stopped this experiments cause they were taking too much of my precious hash oil (remember i have only 2oz of weed that must last one entire year). And i figured that even if the tincture were very efficient, it hardly would be more efficient that green dragon. As i already had decided that making g.d. was an waste, i prefered to stop this experiments, and wait for the results of the people with more weed to spare than myself.

Right now i had an idea. You would try to make honey oil with butane, and let the drops of "weeded" butane fall into a cup with glicerin (instead a dish). Hopefully, the THC would dissolve in it as the butane evaporated. If i ever get some butane i will try it.

As an interesting note, the hash oil i used in the green dragon i drank was isomerized, so it cannabinoid content was almost only THC. And yet the effects i felt were most bodily than mental... if i had smoked this hash oil, my mind would have raced like crazy, i would have thought millions of things... but instead, i went peaceful and slow.
It would be a bit confusing, but i did read somewhere at medical mj sub-forums that the THC has an relaxing effect in small doses, and a stimulating effect in high doses. So it explains the effects. As eating makes the releasing of the THC into the blood slower, its levels are lower than when it is smoked and enters at bloodstream all at once.