"People complain about ethanol as a solvent because it extracts the chlorophyll and some other stuff. But if that is so why not just do a water extraction on the material first to get all that crap out, and to wash of the pesticides. The thc is not water soluble so would not be lost doing a water extraction first."

Problem with that is it knocks off a lot of trichs.

It is acceptable to make bubble hash and then extract the resin from the hashish.
The leftover wet buds can be dried and another 10% or so of oil can be stripped out of them for topical application.
I use Ethanol for medibles.
And Naphtha for topicals.

Aloha,
Weeze