Tincture of Mars

[Coelho]

Hello my friend! Nice to know that youre back to making experiments with weed... i think im done with it (i already spent more weed than i wished doing unsucessfull experiments), but if you get some nice results maybe i try some of it again...

Tincture #1 after the extraction was more viscous than the glycerine was before the cooking, so either there was some kind of evaporation of the dissolved water, or maybe absorbing the pot resin increased the viscosity, or both.

Well... glycerin is hygroscopic (it absorbs water from the air), so probably it actually had some water dissolved in it, making it less viscous... cause pure glycerin is noticeably viscous.

Tincture #3 is very liquid, just like green dragon. It is much browner in color than the green dragon I have made in the past.

Probably its browner due the longer time of cooking, as you said the weed turned darker during the cooking.

I could tell I was a bit high, but not intensly high. I had a good body sensation, but not much head high. It was actually about perfect for a bike ride when you mostly want to enjoy the ride and not be too high. Another factor is that I am on a kind of fast right now so I already feel a little bit tired and light headed, so it's hard to pick out what is due to the tincture and what is due to low blood sugar!

The next day I tried about 6 drops and went for another ride with similar results --- a nice feeling, but not an obvious high.

Well... its almost exactly what i felt when trying glycerin tinctures some time ago... i felt i was barely high, but only barely. And thats why i gave up. Too much weed for too little effects.

If I get a chance, I'll try a larger dose today. Does anyone know how this stuff should be dosed? LdyMarsRN said it only takes a few drops for her. My 6 drops are about 1/2 of a dropper full. Usually when I make Green Dragon with 4 grams of weed, I get something I mix into about 24 doses. I'm not sure how much a dropper holds, so I may be taking a lot less than a full dose. Does anyone know? I don't have a good way to measure out milliliters right now.

Well... you could count how many drops you need to fill a teaspoon (or any other measure unit), then how many teaspoons you need to fill one ounce. It can take some time and patience, though...
After it, you could calculate how many weed you ingested when you took this 4-6 drops... maybe the tincture is actually effective, and it was only the amount of weed that was not enough to get you high...

Does anyone have any opinions on the process I used? It's too early to start worrying about it, but I'm wondering if I used too high a temp for too long. Another thing I wonder about is whether the decarboxylization process is necessary if you are going to use long cook times and high temps. Does anyone know about this?

Well... one thing i noticed when isomerizing my hash oil is that is not exactly the amount of time of heating which makes it to start to oxidate, but the contact with air.
When i isomerize the hash oil, i put it into a test tube with water, and hot bath this water for some 2 hours. Sometimes the hash oil floats (and thus keeps in contact with the air), and sometimes it sinks. I noticed that when it is in contact with air, it starts to oxidate (tranforming in CBN with its noticeable effects) after less than 1 hour of heating. Yet, when it sinks and gets no air contact, it resists 2 hours of heating without any oxidation, yielding a very THC-rich product.
And i dont know if in this case the decarboxilation is actually needed, as the weed is heated for long enough, so even if the weed were initially not-decarboxilated, it would be very decarboxilated after all the heating.

Also, has anyone ever taken a sublingual tincture? To me, it was kind of wierd. I put the drops under my tongue, and immediately my mouth began to water. I had this idea that I should hold the tincture in my mouth as long as possible, but within just a minute or two my mouth was so full of spit I had to swallow it.

It also happenned with me... but as i didnt wish to swallow it (mainly when i used alcohol with the glycerin), i just hold my mouth full of saliva and tincture for some minutes, and then spitted it all.

So, thats it... i hope you be sucessfull, so all of us will be benefited with yet another way to using the wonderfull cannabis. :thumbsup::rastasmoke::jointsmile: