HOW TO MAKE A THC TINCTURE

[EMay85]

Hello,
I have been doing some very extensive personal research on cannabis. Something that intrested me a lot was the THC extraction methods that are scatter around the internet. Many of them have conflicting procedures. So i decide to write up my own. I will be extracting the thc using Master Wu's Method. If you need info on how to make this please refer to Master Wu's Method first. This will be more of a what i did thing. This is also my first post. I love this site.

Anyway,

I started with a little under 1/2 a oz
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Ground it up really nice and fine.
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This is how much i had after grinding.
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spread it on a baking sheet
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Now here is the tricky part. What you want to do is heat up the cannabis so that it converts the thca to thc, but so hot that the thc vaporizes and is lost in the air. this is a mistake i made on a previous attempt. Do NOT leave it in the oven until you can smell the thc really bad.
This time i took a pinch of bud, placed it on so tinfoil, put it in the oven at 300 degrees, and did the almighty sniff test. Once you can start to smell the vaporized thc, take it out. Now repeat this with the large amount of bud.

EMay85 Reviewed by EMay85 on 06-09-2010. HOW TO MAKE A THC TINCTURE Hello, I have been doing some very extensive personal research on cannabis. Something that intrested me a lot was the THC extraction methods that are scatter around the internet. Many of them have conflicting procedures. So i decide to write up my own. I will be extracting the thc using Master Wu's Method. If you need info on how to make this please refer to Master Wu's Method first. This will be more of a what i did thing. This is also my first post. I love this site. Anyway, I started Rating: 5

[EMay85]

Set up your pans like so, water in the big pot, everclear in the small one.

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Heat it up until the alcohol has a slow boil.

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Place buds in alcohol.

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I slowly stirred it. i do n0t know whether it helps or not.

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[EMay85]

This is how much liquid i had after extraction. A little under 1/3 of a cup

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I placed the small pot back in the water bath to boil off some of the alcohol. doing so resulted in this. Around 1/8 of a cup

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I did not know how to embed all my pic in one post, sorry.

[EMay85]

I am a heavy smoker, so i will not be trying this until this weekend. i will post the results, i promise. I personally hate getting to the end of a post and the op didn't follow up on what happened

[Charbud]

Its either going to be madness or really bad...but looking forward to your results regardless

[EMay85]

Thank you, the last time i made it, it got me high but not as high as i should have been. Definitely a different high than smoking.

[eastbaygordo]

There is no need to heat the cannabis if it's properly dried, you are just losing some of the good stuff to the air if you heat it to 300.
All the good stuff is gone by about 375.
All you need to do is get a glass jar and add the alcohol, add the cannabis, in a pot of water heat the alcohol in the jar to 140 and let it simmer for 20 minutes and then put it away in a dark place leaving it alone for 2-3 weeks.

There is a great FAQ for green dragon here, follow it and you'll be fine.

[EMay85]

From what I have found the letting it sit step is not need when you cook it on the stove. The heat is putting the chemical process in overdrive. Also i could not heat the liquid mix to 300 without boiling off too much of the alcohol. The THCA must convert to THC to be effective. Ive based this on several different source all over the net. as i said they all have conflicting procedures.

[EMay85]

THC will separate from the plant at 149 C, Alcohol boils at 78 C. That is not to mention i want all the cannabinoid is the tincture other than thc. CBD vaporizes at 206 and CBN at 212. Its not easy to reach those temps in a water bath so you must heat it prior to putting it in the alcohol. If this is incorrect please let me know as it is the best way i can learn more.

[EMay85]

I decided to try some last night. I put 1/2 a teaspoon in a glass of juice at 9:30pm. I did not feel any effects until 10:35. I was laying in bed, my whole body was very warm feeling and heavy. when i closed my eyes i could see a very vivid movie playing but it was really random. At one point i saw some kind of mechanical device. It was square with gears, wires, and springs. it floated in the air and separated, like in a exploded diagram of something. i could clearly see each part which is very unusual for me. Its really hard to describe. I dont know how long it would have lasted, since i feel asleep. when i awoke i could still feel it. not as intense but definitely still there.
I have been smoking 4-6 times a day for the past 2 months, so i would think my tolerance is high and thus affected the results. I will go without smoking for a couple days then drink some more.