Another Tincture Thread - Try it, You'll like it

That"s for flowers.

 

As Stiggy and Joker have stated, 190 proof is the best for cannabis extraction but some states don't allow it so you have to settle for 151. I'm glad you're not in one of those states.

A mason jar is fine with the lid on as long as you can still see if it's bubbling. If it were flower then there would be some vapor that would build up but that shouldn't be a problem with concentrate. You will get a rush of fragrance when you open it, though.

 

Another One

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Okay, folks, I have another little project that I'd like to share with you and maybe get some volunteers to verify it. Another really easy one using straight GD.

I was made aware of this by @entman and now I'm sharing it with you. I have just tried it and it seems to work like a charm and fast, fast enough you can get a rush which I am as I write this or so it seems. It piggybacks on sugar which metabolizes much quicker.

Entman lives in Europe and the products can be different than what we experience here. He originally took some dextrose candies, like Smarties, and soaked them in GD. They soaked up the GD and stayed solid. Once they dried they were just like before except infused. He estimated about 2.5mg per candy when he tried them.

So today I bought a small bag of Smarties. I got those because I wanted to duplicate his experiment and they were the only dextrose candies that I could find over here and access. Each roll contains 15 small round candies with concave surfaces on both sides of various flavors like a little bowl.

I had to limit my experiment because I have an extremely limited supply of GD and I didn't want to waste any if it didn't pan out so I used 1/3 of a roll, 5 candies. I really was only checking if was broken down by the GD or if it absorbed and not expecting much for effects. Just 5 little bitty candies.

I could have just soaked them in a pool of GD but then I wouldn't really know how much was in each one so I set them all flat in the bottom of a small beaker. The concavity was clearly visible and I placed 3 drops of the same 20mg/ml GD that I used for the mug cake into the bowl of each candy. 3 drops filled it just right.

I just sat there for a few minutes watching them to see whether they did any tricks or barked but they just sat there and absorbed the GD. In a few minutes it was gone in every candy and they looked no different than before.

I let them sit for about fifteen minutes to let them dry because I didn't want to take a chance they would crumble. They didn't crumble and they seemed stable and just like candy. I ate one to see if there was any taste and the only thing I noticed was the original flavor of the candy. I ate the other four and figured that was the end of it for today.

I hadn't intended to post this until I'd been able to check it out a little better in the future but the results were too apparent to ignore. I started feeling it within a few minutes as it started flowing in through my oral tissue. Within a half hour I was really buzzed and it's continuing now an hour later. Until then I was in tremendous pain all day and would not have been able to write this up but here it is. Must be something to it.

Each candy was 3 drops with a total of 15 for all five candies. That's about a half dropper and it's sublingual because of the nature of the candy. I also think this would work with larger buttermints and I was going to use those but couldn't find any, just the Smarties. Any of those candies with that kind of texture that will absorb should work.

Volunteers needed.

 

You don't need luck. Piece of cake.

 

I thought that I may have run across that idea in here from someone but if so, it didn't register at the time although I have thought about from time to time over the years.

I think that the dose of each could easily be doubled by turning the candy over after it's dried and do the same thing to the other side. It also has a concavity so you could fill it, too, and have 6 drops per candy. The hardest part of the whole thing is having the manual dexterity to fill each candy, at least for me since I shake so much but it seems worth the effort.

 

Happy to oblige, Stiggy. I may be getting old and infirm and broke but I'm still endeavoring to present new ideas here whenever I can.

 

The wafers should work since they're similar to the Smarties. I really want to try some buttermints. I've thought of vanilla wafers, too, but I'm not sure they'd hold their shape and texture since they're a dough product but they might. The same thing for any other cookie as long as it can absorb.

You're right about the candies, though. It is really easy to eat a few rolls without thinking about it.