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

Game’s over. Give the man his prize. I have very severe pain from arthritis starting in childhood that went misdiagnosed until a few years ago, so my spine has somewhat melted. As a result, I am disabled and on some serious narcotics. However, I was able to decrease my narcotics usage greatly when I started using marijuana a year ago. Currently, I’m waiting for a pain relief procedure I had 6 weeks ago to kick in, hopefully it will in the next couple of weeks. But in the meantime, I’m not doing so hot and I’m trying to make things bearable while waiting, hence my experimentation with tinctures.

So I’m kind of the worst case scenario: I have a high tolerance for narcotics, I’m still ON narcotics, and I’ve been vaping my brains out for the past year. Before I saw your post, I threw caution to the wind and took the rest of what I had left, almost 5ml of the 1oz/g tincture. It definitely was working, I actually got a little anxious because of how strong it was, but my pain still got through just fine. Sadly I think I’ve reached the limit of what marijuana can offer me in terms of pain relief.

 

Make stronger meds. Dose up until your comfortable. Cannabis whipped my agonizing pain left from 3 rounds of Colon surgeries. Nearly 2 years of really mega high dosing did the trick at upwards of 1000mg per day.
I'm back down to 100mg every other day now and that debilitating agony has not returned.
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The sweets are set they don't look amazing or anything but I think they'll do the job..

I did the decarb first for 40 minutes then i mixed a spoon of butter & 6 werthers original sweets in a double boiler until everything had melted/gone soft, I then got the mix out on some parchment paper & mixed the hash with each sweet & then finished by sprinkling some sea salt on them before putting them in the fridge to set




I'm going to be eating one in a minute I'll report back with how they are in a few hours

 

Been an hour since I ate one, I feel pretty good & I'm not in alot of pain I'd say they're a winner

 

It wasn't really that difficult to make them they've deffo made a difference I usually get really bad pain as my meds wear off but today I haven't

 

When you were doing 1000 mg a day, did you divide out the doses or just take it all when you woke up?

 

LOL even at my best that much in one go would have me way past my comfort zone. No that was spread out over the full day. 3 capsules with each meal was my routine.
As a grower I never had to worry about having enough. I eventually reached a saturation point where I was zonked for 2-3s day without any cannabis at all and it only took a couple of caps to whack me again.

To see how long I could go with none at all in preparation for a cross country I stopped cold turkey and it was 3 weeks before my pain returned so I went back on my caps for 2 months leading up to the trip and things went fine with no real issues. I had legal Pharmacy pain meds as a backup but didn't need to use them as I hate the side effects.
BNW

 

You’re right. The game isn’t over until I quit. And my mama didn’t raise no quitter! A gram a day would be tough to maintain financially for the long term, but I can afford to try it at least.

That’s so fantastic! I would be so happy if I never had to vape again and could just take capsules. Right, you guys have convinced me, I’m going to give this a try. Do you think the most efficient thing just to decarb the buds, grind and mix in with food?

 

While that does work I feel the short processing with Coconut oil-Lecithin makes for the most bang per gram.
Coconut oil has rather special properties in that it doesn't need any stomach bile to digest as it enters the body via the portal vein. The Lecithin helps to encapsulate the THC molecule and further enhances the effects IMO.

This process comes from BadKats work here on the city I've just stripped and fine tuned it down to the bare minimum I could and still have the same ass kicking strength.

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Thank you thank you thank you! Here’s a question, I have almost a gram of 85% shatter, if I decarb that and mix with the lecithin and coconut oil, would that work? If so, what ratio is used for the concentrate/lecithin/oil mix? That should give a dose of about 425 mg of THC, right?

 

1 gram = 1000mg
If it's 85% it should be 850mg per gram.

I use 5 grams of Kief per Tablespoon of oil with a ratio of roughly 1/6th Lecithin. More Lecithin doesn't matter but less is noticeable by the lack of full strength IME
This makes a sludgy thick base that needs to be hot to flow well in an eyedropper.

I'd likely use a teaspoon of oil to a gram of shatter as a starting point. Weigh the Cannabis and measure the oil so you can replicate the exact same batch next time. This way you don't have to experiment with finding your exact dose again.

You can decarb the shatter in the oil by watching it bubble. No more bubbling usually means it's finished decarbing. I've not tried this personally but I know Sam and others on this thread do use that method.
BNW

 

Thank you again, I’m going to put all the good advice to practice just as soon as the ingredients get here. I will report back the results. Do you guys like to use on an empty stomach or with food?

 

Hey Sam I'm making some hash chocolate I've upped the dose to 0.4gs for each piece, I'll be posting pictures once I've made them

 

I usually have dinner then eat an edible an hour or 2 later once my stomachs settled, I've never tried them on empty stomach

 

Either works about as well. For a faster onset I'll let the caps melt in my mouth and that cuts the start time down to about 45 minutes for me.
BNW

 

The hash chocolate has set I'm going to test one out once I've had a bath

I decarbed the hash then melted chocolate & mixed the hash in when I poured the chocolate into molds