ChiefRunningPhist
Well-Known Member
Anyone ever tried to extract cannibinoids by dropping pressure to their vaporization point?
I was at a friend's and they said that dispensaries are deploying a process by which they are able to gaseously remove the cannibinoids. Some of the used herb is then being resold on black market. I can't find anything on YouTube showing the process.
I'm not sure how you'd collect the vapor, I'm not even sure it'd work, but maybe you could soak the bud in a high boiling point solvent and then drop pressure. The solvent would dissolve cannibinoids, and then after pressure began to drop, cannibinoids would vaporize out of the solvent/bud mixture. Then you'd maybe seperate the vacuum into portions and allow air back in. The vapor would condense on the sides of the partitioned off portion of the chamber, then you'd use a bit of a low boil point solvent to wash the condensed oil from the sides and do a final vac purge?
I bought some live resin that looked very proccessed. It had what looked like THCA crystals soaked in terps. It looked like they were combining ingredients to make the product. This led me to think there's validity in what my friend shared. I doubt they'd create a product this way unless they've found an efficient procedure to extract precisely the cannibinoids desired. It would make a very consistent product despite the raw material supplied.
(I don't have a vac chamber to play with)
I was at a friend's and they said that dispensaries are deploying a process by which they are able to gaseously remove the cannibinoids. Some of the used herb is then being resold on black market. I can't find anything on YouTube showing the process.
I'm not sure how you'd collect the vapor, I'm not even sure it'd work, but maybe you could soak the bud in a high boiling point solvent and then drop pressure. The solvent would dissolve cannibinoids, and then after pressure began to drop, cannibinoids would vaporize out of the solvent/bud mixture. Then you'd maybe seperate the vacuum into portions and allow air back in. The vapor would condense on the sides of the partitioned off portion of the chamber, then you'd use a bit of a low boil point solvent to wash the condensed oil from the sides and do a final vac purge?
I bought some live resin that looked very proccessed. It had what looked like THCA crystals soaked in terps. It looked like they were combining ingredients to make the product. This led me to think there's validity in what my friend shared. I doubt they'd create a product this way unless they've found an efficient procedure to extract precisely the cannibinoids desired. It would make a very consistent product despite the raw material supplied.
(I don't have a vac chamber to play with)