THC drops

This is similar. The whole bottle is shorter than my pinky finger is long
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yes, this is available medically in some places. I've seen it, not used it. never heard of 'tincture' though. Apparently it's super strong, and incredibly expensive for its size!

 

theres different levels of tincture too from most shops. i stick with level 3.

 

here! make your own!!!!! very very potent shit man. two drops and its a space flight.

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(note: this is not my recipe)


Ingredients:
1/8oz high quality cannabis
2 oz Bacardi Rum – 151 proof


Process Summary:

1. Chop cannabis very fine (coffee grinder works great)

2. Place in a shallow pan (pie pan with aluminum foil works great) and bake at 325F for 4-5 minutes.

3. Remove from oven and place cannabis and place in 2 oz of rum (use a small wide mouth mason jar)

4. Simmer in a water bath for 20 minutes. Maintain temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture between 150F – 165F.

5. Strain the mixture and store.


Dosage:
One eyedropper is very nice. Two puts you in space. But you should self-titrate. Effects take about 1.5 hours to begin (at least in myself) and lasted for 5 hours (1 dropper) to 7-8 hours (2 droppers).


Process details-references and rationalizations:
1. Chop the cannabis-more surface area gives means a faster and more efficient extraction.

2. Bake the cannabis.
In whole-plant cannabis, THC content is expressed as THCA (tetrahydrocannabolic acid) prior to decarboxylation into THC, which takes place when cannabis is heated during cooking, and smoked or vaporized ingestion. THCA is a mild analgesic and anti-inflammatory but does not have good affinity with our CB1 receptors, so in order to make a THC-rich tincture that has many of the same therapeutic effects as smoked ingestion (including rapid absorption, quick relief and ease of self-titration), we must convert the THCA in the plant matter into THC prior to extracting it through an alcohol soak. (from Vancouver Island Compassion Society http://thevics.com/cannamist.htm)
THC vaporizes at about 380F. We want to heat the cannabis to convert THCA to THC, but keep the temperature under 380F. That is why 325F is used. Between four and five minutes your oven (and house) will start to smell very strong. This is the time to remove the cannabis from the oven.

Notice also that there is considerable misinformation regarding heating the cannabis. It is true that you don't have to heat it to extract both THC and THCA, but the amount of THC in whole plant preparations is relatively small compared to after decarboxylation of the THCA. So if you want to maximize the strength of your tincture you must heat the cannabis prior to extraction.

3. Use the highest proof alcohol available. In my area this was Bacardi 151. The more alcohol the more efficient the extraction will be.

4. Simmer the mixture.
This is one of the areas that seems to be most debated. Many recipes call for placing the cannabis (unbaked of course) into the alcohol and waiting 2 – 6 weeks. The main concern with heating the alcohol is that it is “explosive” (not exactly true...it is however flammable).

The purpose of the simmering is to heat the alcohol mixture to improve extraction rates and efficiencies. Heating during extraction increases the motion of the molecules (basic physics/chemistry) and drastically decreases extraction times. The boiling point of pure ethanol is 173F (78C). We will use the water bath to heat the rum/cannabis mixture to just below the boiling point of ethanol.

Heating the alcohol mixture can be done very safely using a hot water bath. You will need an accurate candy or quick read thermometer. Place about 1 inch of water in a wide, vertical-edged pan (9” wide x 3” high). Bring the water to a low simmer. The rum/cannabis mixture should be in a small (1 pint) mason jar. Do NOT cover the jar.

Put the thermometer into the mason jar and place into the simmering water bath. Bring the temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture to about 165F (I maintain it between 150F and 165F). You want the alcohol mixture to be just barely moving (not boiling, but showing active convection within the mixture). If the mixture starts to bubble too much, just turn down the water bath.

You should have the oven fan on high. You will notice that any alcohol fumes are mixed with water vapor from the water bath and vented out the fan. This combined with the fact that you are trying not to boil the ethanol makes the process quite safe.

5. Strain, titrate, and store.
When you are finished with the extraction you will be left with about 1oz of green dragon tincture. Note that one ounce of the alcohol has evaporated.

Now you should test your eyedropper. In my test 34 full droppers equaled one ounce of liquid (this is a little less than one gram of liquid per dropperful as 29g equals 1ounce).

The liquid should be dark green and smell like cannabis.

6. Dosage.
Everybody is probably different. It takes me 1.5 hours to feel the effects of eating cannabis. Similarly this tincture also takes 1.5 hours to take effect.

I had tried a tincture someone had made using the cold extraction method with the same amount of cannabis and found that 5 droppers did pretty much nothing.

Using my Green Dragon technique I find that one dropper will bring effects on in 1.5 hours and last 5 hours with 1.5 hours of lingering aftereffects.

Two droppers gave me a "spiritual dose" (as strong as any brownie I ever had). Effects lasted 7-8 hours with lingering effects for 2 more hours.

This means that 1/8oz of good cannabis yields about 30-34 doses of tincture (1 dropperful is really all I need). And is much more pleasant than smoking (which really is bad for you and your lungs and the reason I've stopped smoking entirely).

 

^Thanks for the input man! I'll try to get some drops, as well as make some of this. Sweet

 

no problem, I'd really like to make a bunch of that and just store it in droppers in the freezer or something, itd be so convient, one drop anywhere anytime and it gets you fucked beyond for hours like an edible!! i just shat when i saw this.



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And think how awesome a road trip, vacation, etc would be?

 

anywhere man, anywhere. I'd love that shit.

 

Hey correct me if I'm wrong, but are these the type of drops you can disperse over a cigarette?

My buddy was telling me he has a concentrate that he drops onto his cigarette. Then just smokes the cig like normal and gets ridiculously stoned.

Would these work that way? Does that type of product even exist?

 

You can make your own concentrated tincture and put it in an eye dropper. It's an easy process and once you figure out the process it works very well. Great for concerts/festivals/going out in public! For only $10 you should buy it and try it

 

THC Drops? Legit.

 

This reminds me of capsaicin concentrates. Ya know, the molecule responsible for the heat in a pepper.

 

[quote name='"d420g"']^^^lol i was about to ask this haha. i know theres such a thing as tincture, but youre supposed to put that in your drinks then administer it that way. if you really dislike smoking, make yourself some brownies or some edibles in general.[/quote]

No tinctures go right under your to tongue and if you don't swallow it , you get high in 2 minutes but If you swallow it then it takes an hour

 

[quote name='"Nezsem"']Dam, so one one knows about them? And I think he said 10 bucks a bottle. I'll try and get some and see whats up.

Also it was like some house medical shop. Look like a house converted to a medical shop. Doesn't even have a name lol.[/quote]

That's pretty cheap , fuck it go for it cause I can get some for $15 but It doesn't work for everyone ......


Some clinics have stronger tinctures or bigger bottles and some are sativa or indica

 

Ive tried THC drops only once, last summer. I was hanging out at my girlfriends and her sisters boyfriend just picked some drops. Me and her took a drop and chilled on that and i could feel a nice high going on, then when we were about to head out the door he offered me more and gave me a whole dropper full (10-15 drops) and i definitely had a memorable high, i couldn't sit straight up in a chair