The Hounds' Cannabis Capsule Guide with Flame-On's Recipe

[Weedhound]

Thanks luna!! I remember reading something about cooking differently in higher altitudes but not the details. Thanks again luna!! Ps I tried to rep you but apprently have recently.

[ky1956]

WH any reports on your glycerin tincture attempts?

Just curious

[Weedhound]

Yes, thanks for reminding me ky.

I did NOT consider the vegetable glycerine "green dragon" to be a success. The stuff was extremely thick, tasted REALLY nasty; took a while to kick in and in the end all it did was make me sleepy.. NO buzz of any sort......just very tired feeling and it DID put me to sleep.

We WON'T be making it again. But definitely if anyone else tries it with success please post your experiences!! Maybe we missed something along the way.

PS....We let our stuff age for about 7 weeks. That's part of the issue but inthe endwe were rather disappointed with the results; especially after all the wait time.

[lunarose]

WH, I have a friend who grew up in NM and moved to Fargo and we were just talking about the change in baking times(G) That's too bad about your tincture experiments the one thing I was wondering about is that the glycerin/or alcohol extracts the THC but it really doesn't decarboxylate the THC in an active state plus there is no fat to help the absorption.

[Weedhound]

Well I was reading up on that luna......my main problem is that we won't use alcohol based products because we are both recovering alkies.....both hubby and me and while people swear the alcoohol evaporates I'm just not willing to chance it. If my body ever got the idea that ANY sort of booze was around I'm honestly terrified of what could happen. I am a born drunk and if/when alcohol enters my body forgert it. it's almost killed me twice so never again with booze..

The other issue was the butane extraction. With my cancer in remission; im not about to play around with this kind of stuff.........so that's where the glycerine came in. Safe, etc...and I found the recipe in several places throughout the web so others HAD tried it before.

However, I also read something about decarboxylation and HEAT.....which supposedly dsecreases the amount of time you have to wait for decarb to occur. So about a week before we used it I took the entire thing (ugh) and put in the crockpot and heated it to 180F for an hour. In the end; none of it made any difference......I still consider the experiment NOT successful.....but am open to suggestions for another (very safe) vehicle to try it again.

[H3rbalove]

WH- I actually just tried making the butane extract like a week and a half ago...
What I did was use a pen(like a reg plastic writing pen) rather than a pvc pipe as I saw most in the methods i found researching this process via the web. I took all of the guts out of the pen, stuffed a metal screen in the writing tip and re-inserted it. Then from the back end of the pen I took great bud, and some hash for good measure, and packed it very very tightly. i used the ink tube from inside the pen to pack it after every couple pinches i put in so it was very tight. Then i burnt a hole in the 'cap' to push butane through and put it back on pen. I used like a third of a gram of hash and prob a lil less or equal of green and got a nice small amount of H-oil. After i shot the butane though into a bowl till it turned from gold to clear i put that bowl into another bowl, kinda like a double boiler w/ pans, just warm tap water brings the butane to boiling point. after ten min or so it was just a residue(hash oil). i used a knife tip to scrape it up and a lighter to make it drip onto bowls of bud. I Also smoked it straight off of tin foil and it kinda made me feel like a heroin head until the buzz kicked in. It was great, but i'm a sort of a light weight these days. There's my experience. wow that was long. I almost forgot when I tried it right after making it, it tasted bad of butane and really hurt my lungs but the next day it was better and it stopped tasting bad completely after like three days so maybe i didn't 'Double Boil' long enough. but after the taste went away and i stopped minding smoking off foil it was a great high.

H3RB!!

[H3rbalove]

BTW one big ol fat hit that i would hold in woulg give me a nice mellow high for like 4-5 hours. But I only smoke a few times a week so I'm a light weight.

[lunarose]

WH, Would acetne be less toxic then the butane? I don't blame you for want to avoid the alcohol. Would isopropl acohol be a problem?

[Weedhound]

Well I have heard of old drunks talking about drinking the stuff when desperate (sterno was another "choice of champions") but I'm not comfortable with and afraid of some sort of reaction.

I love my capsules; they are discreet, great buzz; can be packed in the purse or whatever and last for a long time.

I truly think there is some sort of heat involved that we skipped as far as heating the weed to a low temp BEFORE adding the glycerine. One thing I DID like about the glycerine; it's water soluble.

[MacMerdin]

OK. I have made about 7 bunk batches now and am about to give up. I've tried cooking the oil and monitoring the temperature the whole time, I've tried putting it into a boiling water bath in a jar (ala cannabrex). I'm using virgin coconut oil.

I ordered cannabrex but it hasn't arrived yet.

Could I just be someone who is immune to this?

My last batch was with 1.7 grams of kief and I just took 6 about 2 hours ago and yet again...nothing.