How to make Hemp Oil

More Mota

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Please Note I have NOT tried this YET...... I don't deserve any credit for this....I just figured it may be of some help to some people..... I found all the info needed on RICK SIMPSON'S site
SO HERE IT IS:

Starting material:
I generally work with a pound or more of good grade hemp starting material. You can use just one ounce. An ounce will usually produce 3 or 4 grams of oil. The amount of oil produced per ounce of hemp will vary from strain to strain, but it all has that wonderful healing power.
1 - Place the completely dry starting material in a plastic bucket.
2 - Dampen the material with the solvent you are using. Many solvents can be used. I like to use pure naphtha but it costs $500 for a 45-gallon drum. You can use 99% isopropyl alcohol, which you can find in your local drug stores. Alcohol absorbs more chlorophyll from the plant material than naphtha does. This gives oils made with alcohol a darker colour but does not diminish the potency of the oil to any noticeable degree. Ether, naphtha or butane and many other solvents can produce oils that are amber and transparent. Granted these clear oils do look better but dark oil can be just as potent. If the process is done properly, little or no solvent residue is left in the oil. I have been consuming oils produced using different solvents for eight years with no harmful effects. You will require about two gallons of solvent to strip the THC off one pound of dry starting material. 500 milliliters of solvent should be more than enough to strip the THC from one ounce of hemp starting material.
3 - Crush the plant material using a stick of clean untreated (chemical free) wood or some such device. Even though the starting material has been dampened with the solvent, you will find that the material can be readily crushed.
4 - Add solvent until the starting material is completely covered.
Use the stick to work the plant material. As you are doing this, the THC dissolves off the plant material into the solvent.
5 - Continue this process for about 3 minutes.
6 - Pour the solvent-oil mix off the plant material into another bucket. You have just stripped the plant material of about 80% of its THC.
7 - Second wash - again add solvent to the plant material and work it for another 3 minutes to get the other 20%.
8 - Pour this solvent-oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was poured off previously.
9 - Discard the twice-washed plant material.
10- Pour the solvent-oil mix through a coffee filter into a clean container.
11- Boil the solvent off. I have found that a rice cooker will do this boil off very nicely. The one I have has two heat settings - high and low - and will hold over a half gallon (2.5 liters) of solvent-oil mix.
12- Add solvent-oil mix to the rice cooker until it is about ¾ full.


  • Make sure you are in a very well ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.

13- Plug the rice cooker in and set it on high heat.
14- Continue adding solvent-oil mix as the level in the rice cooker decreases until it is all in the cooker.
15- Add a few drops of water to the solvent-oil mix as the level comes down for the last time. The amount of water added depends on how much starting material you had in the beginning. If I am producing oil from a pound of good bud, I usually add about ten drops of water.
16- When there is about one inch of solvent-oil-water mix left in the cooker, put on your oven mitts, pick the unit up and gently swirl the contents
17- Continue swirling until the solvent has been evaporated off. The few drops of water help release the solvent residue and protect the oil somewhat from too much heat. When the solvent has been boiled off, the cooker that I use automatically goes to low heat. This avoids any danger of overheating the oil. At no time should the temperature of the oil go over 290F degrees (140 C).
18- Put on your oven mitts and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker.
19- Gently pour the oil into a small stainless steel container.
20- Place this container in a dehydrator or put in on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile turpines will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any activity on the surface of the oil the medicine is ready for use.
21- Pour the hot oil into a bottle; or as in the video suck it up into a plastic syringe. Putting the oil in a plastic syringe makes it very easy to dispense the medicine.
When the oil cools off it has the consistency of thick grease. Some strains will produce very thick oil and you may have trouble squeezing it out of the syringe. If this happens, place the syringe in warm water a few minutes prior to use.
To anyone starting to use hemp oil as a medication, here are some simple facts.
Hemp oil will lower blood pressure and if you are on blood pressure medication, you may find that this medication is no longer needed. The same is true for diabetics. I have seen hemp oil control blood sugar to the extent that insulin was no longer needed.
I am not a doctor and I do not have the right to tell people what they should do. Personally, I would not consider taking any cancer treatments currently in use by our medical system, I do not recommend that hemp oil be taken along with chemotherapy. What would be the sense of making your own cure and then allowing the medical system to give you massive doses of poison?
From my experience with hemp medicine, I have found that most pharmaceutical medications are no longer needed once a person starts using hemp oil. Hemp oil seems to mix well with most natural medications but I have had a few reports from people trying to take hemp oil and pharmaceuticals who experienced stomach pain etc. All problems ceased when they stopped taking the prescription drugs.
To anyone who is going to act on this information to help a loved one, I welcome you to the world of real medicine. Again, I caution you to be very careful when boiling the solvent off. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.
 

BUDDZY

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great post. what could you substitute for a rice cooker. Stove top med/low heat? how long would it take to boil off the alcohol. (thats the easiest to find solvent so thats what i would use)
 

jsgamber

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First of all, the plastic syringe is just....INGENIOUS! Using glass and an Exacto knife has not been very fun!

I mostly vape so I save up my leftovers in a spare small Mason jar. When it get's to about half full (I crush it into a powder as I add it into the jar) I fill the jar to about 3/4 with 91% alcohol, put the lid on and vigorously shake it up for about a minute. The drug stores always seem to be out of 99% but the 9% is distilled water which could actually help with keeping the oil cool during evaporation. After straining a few times through brown coffee filters the final mixture goes into a Pyrex loaf pan. I then set the loaf pan into a medium sized skillet filled with simmering water. The skillet is small enough to where the loaf pan sits in the water but is still 3/4 above the surface of the skillet due to the curve of the skillet bottom.

Simmering keeps the flame down. Also make sure you have the range hood blower running on high and do not leave it unattended! We are talking flash fire; not just a slow smoldering burn!

Rather than pouring the liquid into something I'd use safety razors to scrape the goo and collect it on a small piece of glass which I keep in the fridge. This hardens it enough to where I can slice bits of it off into the bowl on top of my weed. But sucking into a plastic syringe with no muss and fuss is something I gotta try out.
 

jsgamber

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By the way, what are the best methods for heating the oil without having to put it on your herb? I like the flavor of the vapors without the weed smoke and I've been using my glass bubbler and tilting it forward in the bowl to keep it from running down the stem but it's not the best way.

Just wondering if someone knows a good DIY way to vape the oil without turning everything into a gooey mess?
 

More Mota

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What about the old school way with a plate cup and straw? Although that makes one feel like more than a stoner
 

Framed86

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i like to smoke my oil in a bong, the trick to getting it to burn completely with it not running down the stem out out the bottom of the bowl is to have something for it to absorb into, i originally tried several layers of just screen but the oil dropped through and made a mess. Ive found that a screen with a bowl full of ash does the trick for a drop or two. no smoke from the ashes just oil. Ive never tried it in a vap but the concept would be the same,just have to have it absorb into something that wont burn with it.

as for the making of the oil with 99% alcohol, chill your alcohol in the freezer, freeze your ganja and keep your mixing pail super cold. use an electric drill and a paint mixer for the beating and wash three times with a lesser amount of alcohol, this prevents a lot of the chlorophyll from dissolving and you end up with a much cleaner looking product. pour into glass casserole or pie pans...the bigger the better, in thin layers and let the solvent vapor off at low temperatures in a cold room. takes longer but worth it. Rome wasn't built in a day
 
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