If you dont decarb and make edibles they most likely contain thca. You wont get high but there still are significant medical benefits. No buzz though.
I've been looking at some of the research being some using non-decarbed pot but not a lot on that yet as to efficacy compared to the decarbed form that seems to work for so many things. Shrunk my wife's liver tumours and my prostate while fixing her glaucoma.
that is decarbing, you can trade temperature for time...the longer the time, the lower the temp can be.
Thanks OldMed, I'll try with some pyrex glass covered in aluminum foil, if I can find a mason jar though I'll use that.That's better than laying out on a cookie sheet. It's not like that doesn't work either but I prefer to get as much of the medicine the plant has to offer and terpenes are a major part of the entourage effect that supposedly helps make pot so effective against so many health issues. I plan to be using vacuum distillation to remove the solvent from my oil to keep the temps as low as possible while processing to preserve as much as possible.
Foil would work. I'd use a mason jar and put the ring on loosely so if there's much moisture in the pot it doesn't build up any pressure and crack the glass. Or just press the foil into the threads on top. Your container should be inside a pot or metal bowl so if it does crack the pot doesn't go all over. Mason jars are made of borosilicate glass, (Pyrex), so can handle the heat.
Stay away from sativa dominant pot if anxiety is an issue. Go for the indicas like kush or even something with some CBD in it as that really tones down the buzzy stuff. You'll want some sativa in there to avoid couchlock and help with the creativity aspect. The same strain will have different effects on different people. We never had any grey market dispensaries up north here and the firat time I was in BC I scored some 1g samples of a bunch of strains to try out something different that what I had been growing for years. That's how I clued into how much CBD helped with my arthritis pain. Was a 2:1, CBD/THC strain that had been lab tested at 12% CBD and 7%THC so I went back and bought 10g to take home and make into cocobudder. Best meds ever! Trying to grow pot with those specs is a crap shoot so I'm going to make all my THC pot and CBD pot into separate batches of oil and send them off to a lab so I can mix my meds to whatever ratio I want.
You can buy plant-based terpenes to add to the oil to tweak the effects as well. So far I have a small bottle of Beta Caryophyllene that is supposed to help with inflammation and pain plus promote a balanced buzz. I got it at a hydro store in BC and it's made by TrueTerpenes.com.
To be dead simple you could grind a gram of bud and add it to some butter in a hot skillet for 5 min then spread it on a sandwich. Bet you get wasted on that but wait up to 2 hours before taking any more. With edibles it's best to start low and go slow until you figure out how it affects you. Greening out is not fun but a good double shot of booze takes the terror out of it fast.
I should have said, I don't decarb beforehand. I let the heat of the infusion process do it for me. I also add sunflower lecithin for the blood brain barrier.
Grinding it exposes a lot more plant material to the solvent, be it butter or ISO or naphtha that will contaminate the final product. This is not terribly important when the product is destined for edibles but does add to the nasty taste. If making oil for smoking then it's more of a big deal.
Have you tried winterizing your oil? Its an extra step but its worth it if your using iso.Grinding it exposes a lot more plant material to the solvent, be it butter or ISO or naphtha that will contaminate the final product. This is not terribly important when the product is destined for edibles but does add to the nasty taste. If making oil for smoking then it's more of a big deal.
I just made a small batch of CBD oil starting with 75g of bud and sugar trim. I put it in a big glass pitcher the using the handle end of a big wooden mallet mash it down, stir with the end of the handle and keep doing that until it's all no more than pea sized chunks. Then I soak it with ISO a couple of inches over the pot, stir for a minute then pour through a fine strainer into another pitcher so I can get it out quicker. Ad more ISo, quick stir for a few seconds then once more. I'll leave all the liquid to settle out the fines then run it through a coffee filter folded into a cone for the funnel. Regular funnels are smooth inside so I ran 6 or 7 beads up from the hole in the bottom about 3" up all around so the paper isn't plastered up flat against the plastic and there's more surface area for the liquid to get thru the paper.
Pitcher loaded.
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All mashed down.
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All ready to get the ball rolling.
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I could use some practise with a glue gun.
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Cooking it nice and checking it twice. Once the last of the iso was gone I heated her up to 250F and decarbed right there. Get good control of the heat with the hotplate plugged into my variac. Looks to be 15 - 20ml but I forgot to weigh the damn beaker before starting that part so will have to weigh once cleaned out to know exactly how much I got. I used 3 - 500ml bottles of 99% ISO and got 2.5 back. I kept the wet pot in the pitcher and sealed it with some Glad Press'N Seal over the irregularly shaped top so it's airtight. It's just like the parafilm we used in the lab but thinner and prolly a hell of a lot cheaper. I can dump that in the other still and cook out the ISO. That countertop one won't heat up without liquid in it but the other goes on a hotplate and I tell it what to do.
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Tried smoking some of the oil off a cig. Did 3 big hits and don't feel buzzed but a bit cheery and the arthritis pain is noticably less. Picking up a couple big bars of 70% Belgian chocolate at the bargain store tomorrow and making some nice chocolates in the little gummie molds I got. Tested them for volume today too and they are 5ml each and 15 to a flat and have 2 so 30 pieces and 150ml total. I found a place that sells big flats online and can get ones with the Canadian symbols for CBD and THC but $40 or so US so $100+ plus shipping.
Think it's time for a toke I can catch a buzz off of.
Edit: Forgot the final pic. Weight with oil is 91.8g and written on the beaker.
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No need to do that for oil meant for edibles. I know all about winterizing and as a non-practising alcoholic with almost a year sober I won't have alcohol in the house.Have you tried winterizing your oil? Its an extra step but its worth it if your using iso.
Basically when your done dilute it with ethanol (grain alcohol) freeze it for 3 days, filter again cold and finish like you did with iso.
The ethanol pulls out most of the plant wax. Some will freeze to the glass and the rest gets caught in the filter. And if there's even a hint of iso left it will be in the plant wax and filtered out.
How do you make oil? I just trimmed my plants and am wanting to use the trimmings
Cannabis infused edible oils or concentrates like RSO, BHO, shatter etc?
