Tinctures

Who uses tinctures? Alcohol, glycerine, oil? How do the effects (pros/cons) differ from smoking or vaporizing?

I use glycerine tincture occasionally. The effects are like edibles, same duration but with a much quicker onset. I use it when I visit family and have to be discreet. I add it to hot tea. At home, or otherwise, I prefer to vaporize, for a clearer, headier high.

So it's more of a heavy indica body stone and less of a clear headed energetic high?

Yeah. I could pass for drunk while stoned on tincture, if I had to explain semi-discreetly.

And what ratio of cannabis, kief or ? to what ratio of glycerine? How long do you let i sit? Do you cook it etc etc please
tell me more!

I have a jar going 2 week now and have NO clue what I am gonna end up with!!

i have refined the recipe throughout years of research and years of trials


best strongest way to do it is take your buds about 8 - 9 grams to one of those 350ml bottles of everclear

so you take 8 gram grind it to dust, put it in a mason jar, put the mason jar with weed in it in the oven at exactly 225 deg f for 45min to 1 hour

this decarbs your weed 100% to make it all active

the take the jar and let it cool or it will shatter when you pour evercler in it

you can cool it fast with a fan if in a rush like i always am

then take a pot of water and put on the stove just under boiling

fill up the correct amount of everclear in the jar of weed

leave a shot of ever clear in the bottle

take the jar put it in the pot of water and let the everclear boil, it boils at 170 deg f which it below the boiling point of water in your pot,

never leave it and stir always you can burn your house down its not a game so have a fire extingusher ready and watch it the whole time

let the everclear boil lightly for 30 min

remove the jar,

dump the contents of the jar in a mesh coffee filter the reusable kind and strain out the weed,

take the shot of evercler you left in the bottle and pour it over the weed in the filter to get any left over thc caught in the weed,

take your green dragon concentrate mix it with 35 - 50 % water to make it drinkable,


this will be very potent and tastes like complete shit so take it with a lot of chaser, beginners should not even take a half a shot at a time it may blast you into a nightmarish high for like 6 - 12 hours if you over do it,

this makes about 1 gram primo bud per shot, so half a shot is like eating 1/2 gram primo

im a pro and cant take more then 2.5 shots without freaking out

if you take too much and freak out the antidote is liquor or beer, it will make you calm down right away and allow you to enjoy the high.

joe4444 said:

Who uses tinctures? Alcohol, glycerine, oil? How do the effects (pros/cons) differ from smoking or vaporizing?

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Green Dragon tincture is a good option. Grind up your bud fine, bake it for five minutes, (the baking will make your house smell like the inside of a bong), then boil it in Everclear in a double boiler, and strain. V'walla. Search "Green Dragon" for a more complete recipe. As for the effect of GD vs. smoking, I doesn't seem to me that there is much difference. Cotton mouth, munchies, and thinking funny thoughts seem to happen equally with either method. GD takes longer to come on, and the high lasts longer than smoke, but GD's effect seems to me to be attenuated by having a full stomach, so it's best to take it when you're hungry or half hour or so before a meal.

so far most people I see using tinctures aren't using them sublingually (under the tongue . . .)

I thought the whole point of tinctures was to bypass the GI tract and go straight into the blood stream for quick effects?


so far I haven't been able to make a tincture that got me high from a decent amount under the tongue . . . . and I'm beginning to think it's not possible, and that anyone experiencing such highs sublingually are either a. a newbie , b. placebo effect.

so yeah I'm a bit conflicted on the actual point of tinctures now . . . . if people are essentially taking shots of it and consuming it like edibles . .. why not just make edibles??

poplars said:

so far most people I see using tinctures aren't using them sublingually (under the tongue . . .)

I thought the whole point of tinctures was to bypass the GI tract and go straight into the blood stream for quick effects?


so far I haven't been able to make a tincture that got me high from a decent amount under the tongue . . . . and I'm beginning to think it's not possible, and that anyone experiencing such highs sublingually are either a. a newbie , b. placebo effect.

so yeah I'm a bit conflicted on the actual point of tinctures now . . . . if people are essentially taking shots of it and consuming it like edibles . .. why not just make edibles??

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green dragon is different than edibles because it hits you faster and harder and lasts less time.

i think its cuz your body immidiatly processes the alcahol throught the liver much faster that food or oil


when i do dragon it takes about 30 min to feel it somtimes even less

when i eat edibles it can take like 2 hours to feel it and its onset is slower

we make green oil for my friend cuz he cant drink due to alcaholism


its a great feeling, cuz the first shots you take gets you drunk/high cuz some gets absorbed into your mouth membranes on the way down anyway and you get a slight intstant buzz of happiness

yeah but you get what I'm saying right?


I thought the entire point of tincture was to have near instant effects through sublingual (under the tongue) absorption.

it may be faster than edibles through the GI tract because it's a liquid . . . but it still seems to be killing the point of tincture . . . which is to get high in less than 15 mins under the tongue I thought . . . .


unless I had the wrong idea from the start? why do they put tinctures in sprayers to spray under the tongue then?

yea they do have them in sprays and ive had people freak out of 1/2 shot of the dragon so say you put a 1/2 shot in a tiny spray bottle it would fuck up normal (non extreame) weedheads

prolly like 15 sprays under the tongue would make you atleast feel pretty baked,


they sell em in cali i saw a guy on utube showin them off. i have never tried it that way personally thats all, but it does work under tongue


i always use the same strain and my tolerance for this strain before rediculess

yeah so it seems to be not very effective under the tongue for us heavy users eh . . . .

guess I'll stick to normal edibles.

ya me an my buddy we just take grinded weed to dust put it in small pyrex cup mix the weed with olive oil and put it in the oven at 295 deg f for 45 min


my alcaholic buddy just puts the oil weed mix in the freezer and eats it like icecream lol


but its a fast way to make oil without having to mess around too much

we even used to put the cooled oil into pills., i bought a cappinjg machine and we would end up with like 4 - 5 pills per gram

but i stopped doing that once i learned about the dragon