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Isopropyl Alcohol

Discussion in 'Seasoned Marijuana Users' started by coiner, Mar 7, 2009.

  1. #1 coiner, Mar 7, 2009
    I'm thinking of making hash out of some low quality herb I got. I want to do an alcohol extraction and I've got some everclear but it's rather expensive and I would much rather drink it than let it evaporate. Is it safe to use drug store rubbing alcohol? I would assume that it is safe and nothing would be left behind from the alcohol but I just wanted to make sure before I poisoned myself or something.
     
  2. #2 pmb6967, Mar 7, 2009
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    91% alcohol is the recommended iso to use. Anything higher I believe takes chlorophyll out of the bud resulting in lower quality product.
    Also this topic has been covered many times over, using a search would have resulted in a faster answer.
     
  3. #3 coiner, Mar 7, 2009
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    i did do a search but nothing about the safeness has been mentioned, including in your response. I've done searches and they say that 99% is the best, the chlorophyll only comes out when the herb is left in the alcohol for too long. I plan on soaking it once for ten minutes and then soaking the herb a second time for an hour in different alcohol to get two batches, one lower quality. What I want to know is whether or not the isopropyl alcohol is going to leave any substance behind that the everclear will not.
     
  4. #4 pmb6967, Mar 7, 2009
    Taken from the sticky Quick Wash ISO Hash (pics & vid).
    From the looks of it, using that method resulted in a nice "pure" product.
    I was wrong with the 71%

    Sorry I have no information on Alcohol vs Iso. Just use Iso.
     

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