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From: harmon@Metaphor.COM
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> what is 'hash oil'?
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Its a thick black oil made from hash. The hash is heated and pressed to
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release the oil. (Same process used to make hash from marijuana, but carried
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to an extreme.) Its almost like a tar; very sticky, very thick.
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> how is it used?
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I've never seen it in the US, but When I lived in England, some 10 years ago,
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it was occasionally available. It came in two forms; sometimes it would be
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in a little plastic vial. Other times it would come in a piece of aluminum
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foil. From what I recall, the point was not to burn it, as that would burn
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off the active ingredients; but you wanted to inhale the vapor from it.
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The usual procedure was to get some heat resistant tube; the favorite was a
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the clear plastic tube that is the body of a bic disposable pen. Pull out the
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end cap, and pull out the ink/ballpoint thingy. Result: a clear plastic tube.
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Then, smear a small amount of the oil on a piece of aluminum foil. Hold the
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foil with pliers. With the oil on top, heat from beneath with a lighter.
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Hold the end of the tube above the patch of oil. As you begin to apply heat,
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suck like hell. The pliers (or something) are necessary because foil is
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an excellent conductor of heat, and you can burn yourself. It may take
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several heatings to use up all the oil from a smear. (You'll note this takes
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three hands!)
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For a nicer piece of equipment, take an old tablespoon. Bend the handle so
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that the handle bends away from the bowl, and then back so that it is pointing
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up away from the bowl. Attach same pen tube to the handle so that it points
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down into the bowl of the spoon. Smear oil into bowl of spoon, and heat
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spoon from bottom. (This only takes two hands.)
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Another technique, if you roll your own cigarettes, is to smear a streak of
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oil on a cigarette paper, and then roll a cigarette with this paper.
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From: harmon@Metaphor.COM
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I grew up in England, and when I was in high school (pun intended? ;-) there,
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all we could ever get was hash. For some peculiar reason, no one ever thought
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to use pipes. So we had to roll cigarettes with roll-your-own tobacco, and
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put crumbs of hash in them. Sometimes, to avoid the tobacco, we'd use
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disassembled clove cigarettes, or herbs like tarragon.
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If you've never used hash, (which I've never seen in the US,) it comes as a
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brown-green brick, which is VERY hard. You warm a corner over a lighter to
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soften it, and break crumbs off of it. You can't roll j's with this stuff; its
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solid. (Sometimes, good stuff is very dark in color, even black; this is
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usually very soft, and if squeezed, drops of hash oil may sweat out.)
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I don't seem to recall it being very common to find head shops where you could
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buy smoking equipment proper, but tobacco and rolling papers were very common.
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I don't think equipment was common, because I do remember a couple of pieces
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of homemade equipment; one friend of mine made a bong in his ceramics class. I
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made one with a thistle tube, cork, glass tubing, and erlenmeyer flask from
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a chemistry set of mine.
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From: cavasin@convex.com
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>> what is 'hash oil'?
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>Its a thick black oil made from hash. The hash is heated and pressed to
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>release the oil. (Same process used to make hash from marijuana, but carried
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>to an extreme.) Its almost like a tar; very sticky, very thick.
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No, make that very, Very, VERY sticky. Sticks to everything. stays under
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your fingernails for weeks after you've tried everything imaginable to get
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it out (and you try everything imaginable because the milligram or so that's
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stuck there is worth some money). It ruins clothes; the only thing that
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will take it off your skin or countertops is denatured alcohol or a similar
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solvent. The stickiest shit I have ever seen.
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>> how is it [hash oil] used?
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It turns up at dead shows occasionally. A "friend" had some that came from
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jamaica, which is where he assumes it was made.
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"friend" says the smoke is better than the vapor.
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>The usual procedure was to get some heat resistant tube; the favorite was a
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>the clear plastic tube that is the body of a bic disposable pen. Pull out the
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>end cap, and pull out the ink/ballpoint thingy. Result: a clear plastic tube.
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>Then, smear a small amount of the oil on a piece of aluminum foil. Hold the
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>foil with pliers. With the oil on top, heat from beneath with a lighter.
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>Hold the end of the tube above the patch of oil. As you begin to apply heat,
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>suck like hell. The pliers (or something) are necessary because foil is
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>an excellent conductor of heat, and you can burn yourself. It may take
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>several heatings to use up all the oil from a smear. (You'll note this takes
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>three hands!)
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Don't use a ballpoint pen unless you like to waste money (oil, same
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difference). This stuff costs a fortune--"friend" says $35/gram when you can
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get it. It's really not worth it at that price. Anyway, as far as heating it
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vs. warming it, "friend" says he's tried it both ways. Both ways it's real,
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real hard on your throat (worse than the harshest weed--almost as bad as that
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"black morrocan" lettuce O shit). It's a little harsher if you do the vapor
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thing. "friend" says seems to be more effective smoked, plus you waste less.
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best vapor method: put an old knife on a stove burner ("friend" used an
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electric stove; use a gas job at your own risk). let it get nice and hot (red
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hot isn't too hot, but of course you don't wanna deform the knife...). Get a
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paper towell tube or similar-size tube. GATHER EVERYONE AROUND CLOSE. use a
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real thin screwdriver or similar instrument to get a little dab of oil, stand
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ready with the tube, press the screwdriver against the hot blade and suck.
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don't take too much; it's got incredible expando properties. The stuff will
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smoke uncontrollably till it's gone, so make sure everyone gets in their suck
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without letting too much go to waste (it's good if everyone has their own
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tube).
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The aluminum foil method is okay, but "friend" thinks it's a little more
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wasteful. Eventually ya gotta throw that foil out.
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"friend" says best way to do it is to roll it with some herb (tobacco kills).
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Another good way to smoke it (according to friend) is to line a screened bowl
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with rolling paper or leaf and put a drop in there.
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However you do it, take SMALL hits. the shit is lethal on your lungs.
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Actually, now that friend thinks about it, the best way to do it is to put
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about 10 grams in a 13x7" brownie pan with your favorite brownie recipe. cut
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into ~1.25" squares. Eat one and have a wonderful night (sex is highly
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recommended). Eat two and become part of your favorite couch for 5 hours or
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so. Eat 5 or 6 and find out what heroin's like without having to mess with
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needles.
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Of course $350 is a hell of an expensive pan of brownies.
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>I always found that hash oil was much stonier than hash. (Whatever that
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>means.....) It gave me more of that feeling in my eyes of being in a smoky
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>room when I was stoned on plain hash or mj leaves.
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friend likes good hash better. Easier to smoke, tastes better. Right about
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the buzz tho. VERY intensly relaxing, almost paralyzing.
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>Of course, this was all long ago, and I don't do that sort of thing anymore....
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Of course, neither does friend.
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:^)
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A word of advice (from friend): BE CAREFUL when buying this shit. It's real,
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real easy to get ripped off, and doling out $35 for a gram of roofing tar is
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quite a bummer.
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Is hash oil mentioned in a faq? I'm too lazy to look. If it's not it should
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be.
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Oh, friend tells me to add one more thing: heating up the vial will make the
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stuff a lot easier to deal with (liquifies it). Also makes it more prone to
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spillage, so take great care when handling it in its liquid form. You can
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heat the vial with a lighter or put it on an electric stove burner.
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God, my friend is such a drug-craving unAmerican lowlife.:^)
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From: kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert)
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Date: 13 Sep 91 03:22:48 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Re: How to purify THC from leaves?
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This comes from a friend of mine that doesn't have net access, so I won't be able to supply further details...
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1. Run all leaf through a wire mesh sifter (such as a kitchen flour sifter)
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2. Completely soak the leaf with ethyl or isopropyl alcohol for about 4 or 5 days.
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3. Strain resultant product through silk (used for silk-screening)
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4. Evaporate remainder by applying very low heat from kitchen stove
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Caution: be very careful - the product is *quite* flammable
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5. After evaporating, there will be a remaining "goo". This is the hash oil.
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[It was noted in a followup that ispropyl alcohol is generally sold denatured,
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so that its vile to drink. The chemicals which denature it, however,
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*should* get evaporated by step 4, and further combusted when you smoke it.
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Therefore the effect of these chemicals *should* be minimal, but since I
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don't have the foggiest idea of what the chemicals actually are, use at your
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own risk -- Lamont]
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From: goddard@cat55.cs.wisc.edu (Denis Goddard)
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Date: 15 Sep 91 20:33:53 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Re: How to purify THC from leaves?
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In article <1991Sep13.032248.2685@csl.sri.com> kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert) writes:
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>This comes from a friend of mine that doesn't have net access, so I won't be able to supply further details...
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>1. Run all leaf through a wire mesh sifter (such as a kitchen flour sifter)
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>2. Completely soak the leaf with ethyl or isopropyl alcohol for about 4 or 5 days.
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>3. Strain resultant product through silk (used for silk-screening)
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>4. Evaporate remainder by applying very low heat from kitchen stove
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> Caution: be very careful - the product is *quite* flammable
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>5. After evaporating, there will be a remaining "goo". This is the hash oil.
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>Kevin
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Use acetone instead of alcohol. THC is SUPER soluble in acetone - soak
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the ground-up leaves in acetone, then distill it off. best purity from
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any solvent I've ever tried. Next best choice is petroleum ether. Seriously,
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alcohols are too H2O - soluble for really good purity - lots of other
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nonpsychoactive stuff gets in the oil.
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P.S. once you've got the oil, it's REALLY sticky & hard to handle. mix with
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2 parts powdered leaf to form good hash.
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you're welcome.
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From: djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg)
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1991 20:51:52 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: THC extraction
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Just for fun. Here are some exerpts from the Experimental section of
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a paper by Adams, Hunt, and Clark, JACS 62, 196 (1940).
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The hemp used in these experiments grew wild in Minnesota during
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the season of 1938. It was cut in August, after flowering had
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begun but before seed had "set" in the female tops. It was stored
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for six weeks in a room where a fan assured circulation of air in
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order to dry it completely. No molding occurred. The material
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was then beaten and shaken to remove the coarse stems which ammount-
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ed to about one-third of the total dry weight. The stems were dis-
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carded and the relatively fine material that remained was extracted
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with 95% ethanol [equivalent to Everclear] in the manner described
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below.
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Four 20-gallon (75-liter) crocks, each holding approximately 23 lb.
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(10 kg.) of material, were set up in series for countercurrent
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extraction. Each crock held approximately 61 liters of solvent of
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which about 41 liters were withdrawn at each transfer, the remain-
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der being retained by the hemp.
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...
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The operations just described were carried out by Dr. John R. Matchett
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and his assistants in the Narcotics Laboratory of the Treasury
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Department, Washington, D.C. They kindly furnished us with a gener-
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ous supply of ethanol extract. [don't you wish you had connections
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like that?]
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The rest of the procedure involved removing ethanol and low boiling
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components under reduced pressure (about 30 mm) and gradually increased
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temperature (up to 200 C). The remaining oil was distilled at 3 mm,
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between 100-220 C. This crude oil (180-200 g) was disolved in petroleum
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ether (b.p. 30-60 C) and washed twice with water. The pet. ether was
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distilled off and the oil distilled at 2 mm, collecting the fraction
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boiling at 175-195 C, yielding 90-110 g of "purified red oil."
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So that's how the big boys did it back then. University of Illinois
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students and alums should note that the author Adams is none other than
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Roger Adams for whom the chem lab is named.
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At the time this paper was written it wasn't known just what the active
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ingredient in pot was. Cannabinol was the first compound identified in
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red oil, and cannabidiol had just recently been isolated. From the
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conclusion of the introduction:
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Red oil probably contains other products closely related to canna-
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binol or cannabidiol in structure, such as partially hydrogenated
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cannabinols, isomers of cannabidiol, or molecules like cannabidiol
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with less unsaturation. A large number of closely related compounds
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is possible. The active marihuana principle or principles may be
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among this group of substances. On the other hand, the possibility
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of the presence in red oil of a very potent active compound, entirely
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unrelated structurally to cannabinol or cannibidiol, is not excluded.
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Very soon after that is was determined that THC was the active principle.
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Roger Adams synthesized THC and several related compounds, some of which
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were several times more potent than THC. Roger Adams has a number of
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interesting papers, Joe Bob says "check it out."
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From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1991 04:05:13 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Anon Post: Makin' Hash
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the following is an anonymous post which was forwarded to me by e-mail.
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You haven't seen this yet, even though its quoted.
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anonymous@somesite.somewhere sez:
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>The following details an attempt at making hash from MJ stems..
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> On friday I took a handfull of stems I had left from a QP we got
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>about 6 months ago. The MJ itself was by far the worst I've ever
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>had.. I and 2 friends went through a half ounce without catching
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>a good buzz. But, I did keep the stems for some reason (Maybee
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>I thought it'd be nice to have a foot long stem for cleaning bowls..
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>Who knows..) Anyway.. This is what I did..
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> Fraday.. Put one handfull of stems in a jar filled with rubbing
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>alcohol. (It's hard to get everclear when you're under 21)
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> Saturday.. Decided not to waste a month just to find that the hash
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>was garbage, and did the following..
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> 1: Put jar of Stems/Alcohol in a pot of boiling water (Leaving
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> the top of the jar open and above the surface of the water)..
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> I let it boil for about 30 minutes then decided that this was
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> going a bit too slow..
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> 2: Strained Stems/Alcohol mix through 2 paper towels into a glass
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> pie plate. (I was going to use coffee filters, but couldn't
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> find any..)
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> 3: Put plate on stove and heated liquid until all of the rubbing
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> alcohol was gone. (This took aprox 45 minutes on Med-Low
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> heat.. The Alcohol was gone after about 30 minutes. <The mix
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> did not have an alcohol smell>)
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> 3.1 Caught one of the strangest buzzes ever while the mix
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> was evaporating..
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> 4: Scraped up what looked to be a dark-brown oil with a razor blade.
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> 5: Rolled the oil into a ball (This was no easy task.. The oil
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> seemed to liquify whenever I touched it..)
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> 6: Smoked the oil in a pipe.. One drag and I was buzzing. Another
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> and the pipe was clogged up.
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> 7: Used a match and pulled out the remaining oil.
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> 8: Used another match to set the remaining oil on fire.. It bubbled
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> and burnt on its own.
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> Now for some questions about what happened..
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> -Was it the Alcohol or MJ that was getting me stoned while I
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> was evaporating the mix?
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> -Does rubbing alcohol leave behind any residue when it evaporates?
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> -Does anyone out in net-land know of a better way to smoke the
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> oil? I'd rather not mix it with tobacco or MJ.
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> -Someone on the net was saying to leave the MJ in alcohol for a month.
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> What I experienced today would tend to make me believe this
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> unnecessary. Did I lose alot of THC by boiling rather than waiting?
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>
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> -At what temperature does the THC itself start to break down?
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> Thanks for any help you can offer.
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>
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>ANON
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> Awhile back on alt.drugs you posted about having references for how to
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> purify MJ into hash. I was thinking this would be really good to add
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> to the ftp site, along with the brownie recipies, etc.
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I don't personally own these books; I just saw them in a "books by phone"
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catalog along with a bunch of other books--you know, Knuth's _Art of
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Computer Programming_ volumes 1-3, Wirth's _Algorithms + Data Structures_...
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_Cannabis Alchemy_, by Gold, 1990
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_Great Book of Cannabis by Cherniak_, 1983
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_Marijuana Chemistry by Starks_, 1990
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I realize the above info is vague, but that's all the books by phone catalog
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listed.
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Anonymous writes:
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(1) to utilize leftover marijuana components - sticks, water leaves
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and the like - simply put it in a double boiler with some butter,
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and let it simmer for a few hours, then strain out the butter and
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put it into a plastic container in the fridge. It's easy to make
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several cubes' worth of pot butter in this fashion ... and half a
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cube is about the amount of margerine or butter one uses when one
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is making brownies. No vegetable material actually enters the mix,
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such that the resulting brownies are substantially safer to carry.
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i've spent maybe ten years playing with petroleum ether and sundry
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other solvents, and it's really a waste of time trying to make hash
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with small amounts of marijuana. the cost : effect ratio just isn't
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justifiable. whereas the same materials, when invested in pot butter,
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not only utilize _every_ component, but can get a whole room full of
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people high ... or keep you sane for a few weeks, one a day.
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(2) although this is not confirmed scientifically, i have read that it
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is believed that, when marijuana is burned, some of the CBN or CBD
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is converted to THC by the heating process. i have applied this to
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my own life by taking a handful of water leaves from said plant and
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microwaving them for about three minutes on defrost ( 40% duty cycle,
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which may not correspond to any other microwave oven manufacturer's
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energy usage profile ), blowing on them and stirring them around to
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evaporate the moisture this elicits, then nuking 'em for another
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similar period of time. this seems to make the resulting smoke just
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a bit stronger.
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It's really a shame that the Establishment doesn't apply itself to teaching
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people how to use drugs intelligently and creatively, since, clearly, such
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paths to competence and maturity exist. If I had known ten years ago what I
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have learned through much reading and thinking, I would have saved myself a
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lot of money, and, more importantly, a lot of grief and self-destructive
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behavior which I have, fortunately, survived.
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Please perpetuate this information as widely as possible, the better to teach
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people how to avoid addictive behavioral sequences while continuing to explore
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the realms of awareness in a mature and thoughtful manner.
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anonymous2@anothersite.somewhere.else writes:
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>anonymous@somesite.someplace writes:
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>>(1) to utilize leftover marijuana components - sticks, water leaves
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>> and the like - simply put it in a double boiler with some butter,
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>> and let it simmer for a few hours, then strain out the butter and
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>> put it into a plastic container in the fridge. It's easy to make
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>> several cubes' worth of pot butter in this fashion ... and half a
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>> cube is about the amount of margerine or butter one uses when one
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>> is making brownies. No vegetable material actually enters the mix,
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>> such that the resulting brownies are substantially safer to carry.
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>> i've spent maybe ten years playing with petroleum ether and sundry
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>> other solvents, and it's really a waste of time trying to make hash
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>> with small amounts of marijuana. the cost : effect ratio just isn't
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>> justifiable. whereas the same materials, when invested in pot butter,
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>> not only utilize _every_ component, but can get a whole room full of
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>> people high ... or keep you sane for a few weeks, one a day.
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>
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>I have to disagree on the the 'waste of time' comment. In the past, I
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>have had (through an act of GOD) the great fortune of having multiple
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>ounces of green leafy material in my possession. As this material was
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>not quite suitable for smoking (taste reasons...), I sought out to
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>find a way to make use of it.
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>
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>The best method I ver used was really quite simple.
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>
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>First, I used a blender to turn the material into a fine powder. Then,
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>combine the material with enough acetone to completely cover it. Let the
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>mix soak for at least one or two days, covered and not near ANY flame
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>source. Then, strain the acetone into a crock-pot (slow cooker). It's
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>perfectly fine to have some of the finest ground material in the strained
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>acetone when done, as this helps the pseudo-hash burn nicely. Now, cook
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>the mixture on low heat until ALL the acetone has evaporated. Voila! You
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>now have the closest thing to the real mccoy, and it came from LEAF! If
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>you want to take it a step further, use a press to make small blocks. This
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>is more time consuming than it's worth, though.
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>
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>Works like a charm, and the result is quite pleasing, to say the least.
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EDITORIAL BY: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu
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Also, there was much discussion of "double boilers". You use a double boiler
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whenever you are trying to heat, and evaporate volatile liquids. It should
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be reasonably obvious that this is necessary to boil off the [acetone|alcohol|
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isopropyl alcohol] which you would mix with the hash. A double boiler is
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simplely a large pot with water in it, which contains a smaller pot with the
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"pot" in it. The water in the large pot boils, heating the smaller pot but
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never exceeding the temperature of the boiling point of water. Thus, there is
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a much smaller risk of blowing yourself up.
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When dealing with flammable liquids like these solvents, proper ventalation
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is required, and flames are an absolutely contraindicated. There is a stupid
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text file running around the net on how to "make" Methamphetamine, which is
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actually a procedure for extracting psudoephedrine. One of the brilliant
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suggestions by the authors of this article was to evaporate by placing a
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solvent on a hot water heater. This is dumb. Real dumb. Particularly if
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you've got a gas hot water heater with a pilot light. (Can you say "Kaboom"
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boyz & girls? I knew you could...). Be a little careful.
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FROM: Anonymous
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I don't ever touch marijuana anymore, but I had to comment on the correct
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method of smoking hash oil. When I was younger I had a girlfriend who lived
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in Calumet, in a little house on the edge of town. Across the road was
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an old tailings heap covered in long grass that waved in the wind. Anyway,
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she loved to drink ginger brandy and she loved to get high. She had some
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hash oil that summer and we smoked it together. Actually, I had more fun
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smoking it being high afterward. It was really too strong. But the smoking
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method was a kick, and it didn't waste any of the oil.
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We would sit at her kitchen table and heat a small, thin glass pipe
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with a crook in it, but no bowl (there had been a bowl once, but it had
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broken off, and it was not needed for the method) and heat the lower part
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WITH A PROPANE TORCH. Once the glass was glowing red, one of us would
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dip a wire loop into the hash oil and apply it to the inside of the lower
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extremity of the glass tube while the other person inhaled.
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The oil vaporized instantly, but some always precipitated on the inside
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of the pipe. After a few hits, we would 'cook' the pipe with the torch along
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its length to get this resin out.
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I maintain that this method, as opposed to others described, is truly
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efficient and easy--AND YOU GET TO WAVE A FLAMING PROPANE TORCH AROUND
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WHILE GETTING UNREASONABLY HIGH!!
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[Disclaimer: If you need a disclaimer to point out the potential danger of
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doing this, then you're too dumb to live and we can just think of it as
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natural selection in action -- Lamont]
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From: fiend@sideways.welly.gen.nz (Fiend)
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 14:24:01 Y
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: HASH EXPERIMENTATION
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I read with interest a compilation of older net messages regarding the usage of
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hash oil and hash block.
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.
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What I say here may not be 100% correct, but if not, I'm sure someone will
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straighten me out a few points. Spelling etc etc etc is not my strong point, so
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please bare with me.
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.
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If you have heard it all before, let me know! I'll keep my big trap shut next
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tyme! Similarly, NZ supplies of things may be different from USA.
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.
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OIL.
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.
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Usually brought in capsules that used to contain prescription drugs. It is very
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dark in colour (darker usually is the better quality) but has a slight
|
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brown/green tinge to it depending on process used to make and the quality of
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ingrediants.
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.
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It just so happens that this particular oddity is almost as common as grass in
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New Zealand, and represents better value for money. The average J over here
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would set you back $6 NZ - That's 1/3 of a B @ $20NZ. I have never payed more
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than $40NZ. This represent a good deal of stoning, about double value for money
|
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from the original green!
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.
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BLOCK.
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.
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This stuff is not as common as the above. Harder to make, and best made in
|
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*large* quantities - Thus the home manufacturing idea goes out the window,
|
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unless you are charging the earth.
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|
.
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Again, $30-40NZ for an average block, although occasionally one or two come
|
|
along a little more expensive. I think the expensive stuff (well... These are
|
|
street prices, so I know it's ALL looking expensive... Work out our exchange
|
|
rate by the way...) comes from inland resources, where as the cheap is Jamican
|
|
origin, or therabouts.
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|
.
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My prefered of the two? Well, let's just say that you loose $5 worth of hash
|
|
for ever $30 you manage to intake. You probably loose less (money speaking) of
|
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oil than block. For that reason - OIL!
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.
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However, (oh gawd, here we go!) block is truley magnificient when dropping
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shavings of the stuff straight onto an element. It isn't really a portable
|
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drug, block, as it needs a lot of work to take.
|
|
.
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CONSUMPTION.
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.
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Don't know about you guys, but we just use some sort of funnel placed over the
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|
approx area of burning. Works fine, never bothered with anything more
|
|
complex/expensive.
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|
.
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|
A tip for the outdoors - Tin Foil held up by some sticks over a candle, and
|
|
just drop block onto it. For oil - Try a laying out some decent size spots (1x1
|
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inch) and get all your mates around with straws!
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In article <06MAR93.24304535.0080@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, HCOK <HCOK@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
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says:
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>
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>Hey, does anyone know how to make hash oil?
|
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>I have heard that you can wrap it up with dry ice in
|
|
>some newspaper and scrape it off the paper when the ice
|
|
>dissolves. Also, I was told that if you put your weed in
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>a filter and pour hydrogen peroxide through it into a pot
|
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>of water and boil it down it will produce oil.
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>Please, can anyone help me.
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> Puff & Stuff
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Hydrogen peroxide? Ugh, no thanks. What you need depends on the quality of oil
|
|
you want. I usually use high quality isopropyl (read NO rubbing alcohol) for
|
|
straight run oil.
|
|
Heat and crumble the hash into a pot, pour in some isopropyl and heat it for
|
|
30 minutes. Get some high quality filter paper and filter out the gunk.
|
|
Evaporate the alcohol and there you have it. For extra purification you'll
|
|
need some petroleum ether (best). General ether purification as follows.
|
|
Mix a solution of resin/isopropyl with some ether and water,then gently
|
|
tip the continer upside down and back. Do this about 20 or 25 times and let
|
|
it stand until the layers separate (water/isopropyl with ether on top).Siphon
|
|
or pipet the ether solution off and repeat 2-3x with fresh ether. Evaporate the
|
|
ether (try to salvage it if possible) and voila - smooth killer oil (If you
|
|
used good hash and didn't fuck up! ). Be careful with the ether though, it's
|
|
very explosive, sometimes spontaneous when it decomposes.
|
|
You can go further and make honey oil with activated charcoal and very
|
|
high quality filter paper but you tend to lose a substantial amount. It's
|
|
usually worth it though. If you're interested in isomerizing I can give you
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|
some info on that too.
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D Hare
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Ryerson Engineering
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From: mike@baobab.cadif.cornell.edu
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|
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
|
|
Subject: MJ Tincture+Concentration
|
|
Date: 15 Apr 1993 19:01:39 GMT
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Message-ID: <1qkbej$9ib@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>
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Hi,
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|
A FOAF did some kitchen chemistry exploring the potential for
|
|
making and using an ethanol marijuana extract. In brief, his experience
|
|
was that it's easy to do if you are careful - it produces a novel if
|
|
otherwise unremarkable beverage - and it shows great promise for converting
|
|
a large batch of weak weed into a small batch of pretty decent stuff. He'd
|
|
be interested if others have had better luck with the beverage end of things,
|
|
as the original motivation was to share the fun with friends who cannot smoke.
|
|
|
|
ATYPICAL DISCLAIMER: Be careful whenever you are dealing with
|
|
an extraction process - remember that you can concentrate the bad as well as
|
|
the good. He is not a chemist, nor does he play one on TV, so please...
|
|
also, obvious precautions apply whenever you're heating potentially
|
|
explosive liquids in your kitchen (yes, alcohol can let go with quite a
|
|
kick)... and of course, I do not advocate anything illegal nor do I take
|
|
any responsibility for anything, not even my own actions half the time, much
|
|
less his or yours.
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|
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The following text details a fairly careful, kitchen-table exploration
|
|
of the preparation and use of an ethanol-based marijuana extract. The resulting
|
|
tincture has been consumed and produced a mild and pleasant effect that can
|
|
last, as well as such things last, for several hours. An unexpected success in
|
|
using this extract to concentrate cheap, nasty weed into something useful was
|
|
a nice bonus.
|
|
|
|
|
|
This technique first came to the attention of the locals via the
|
|
following net posting (a portion is reproduced here).
|
|
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|
|
|
>Subject: FAQ-Mj-consumption
|
|
>Author: rml3362@rigel.tamu.edu (Michael Litchfield)
|
|
>Last Update: 6 Jun 91 19:30:02 GMT
|
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>
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>
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|
>Drinking
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|
>--------
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>
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|
> One may extract the active ingredients from marijuana using alcohol and
|
|
>then use this tincture to make a potent drink. The highest proof alcohol
|
|
>available should be used, preferably 190 proof grain alcohol, since the water
|
|
>in the alcohol will dissolve other chemicals in the marijuana that one
|
|
>wishes to avoid. Some suggest soaking the grass in warm water for a period to
|
|
>remove those chemicals but that presents a whole host of other and is not
|
|
>really recommended. One may simply place the marijuana into a bottle of grain
|
|
>alcohol and let the canabanoids leach out, but this takes 2-3 weeks of time. A
|
|
>faster method is to heat the alcohol to sub-boiling and stir in the marijuana.
|
|
>Great deal of care should be taken if this method is chosen as the alcohol is
|
|
>highly flammable. The resulting tincture, often called "Green Dragon", is a
|
|
>light to emerald green liquid, which can be drunk straight, but this is not
|
|
>recommended. Highly lauded is a drink of 3 parts lemon lime soda, 1 part green
|
|
>dragon and a dollop of honey served over ice.
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>
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|
>-Michael
|
|
>--
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|
>tom@udel.edu ...!{gateway}!udel!tom
|
|
>tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu
|
|
>
|
|
>"Themes were useless; Destiny was here, and the foot pedals were bleeding."
|
|
>
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|
|
|
|
The first, careless attempt was done using poor-quality weed and the
|
|
best vodka at hand - Devil's Springs, weighing in at 150 proof. The results
|
|
were unimpressive. Short cooking times (5-10 minutes) were probably a factor.
|
|
|
|
A quick trip to a PA liquor store produced a liter of 190 proof grain
|
|
alcohol - it actually says "Ethanol USP" on the label - and several careful
|
|
attempts were made, as follows.
|
|
|
|
A quantity of pretty good weed - about twice what one person might
|
|
smoke, maybe half or 2/3 a cc of the stuff - is broken up into tiny pieces
|
|
and placed in a handy 500 ml empty glass liquor bottle with a plastic screw-on
|
|
cap. 15cc of 190 proof ethanol (about a shot) is added.
|
|
|
|
On the kitchen stove a saucepan half-full of simmering (not boiling)
|
|
water is prepared, and with the stove set on low the bottle is lowered into the
|
|
uncovered pot. It is important to note that the plastic cap is screwed quite
|
|
loosely on to the bottle.
|
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE: We used an electric stove - I'm WOULD NOT try this over a gas burner.
|
|
Ethanol can actually explode with enough force to break glass, so wear
|
|
something over your eyes and be careful...
|
|
|
|
|
|
After a moment, the alcohol begins a gentle boil. With a minimum
|
|
of screwing around, they were able to carefully regulate the boiling as follows:
|
|
|
|
1) When you hear a hissing sound, the stuff is too hot, vapor is blowing
|
|
out the top and might ignite if you ignore it.
|
|
|
|
2) If the alcohol stops simmering it's too cold.
|
|
|
|
3) If the alcohol is simmering in the center where the bits of weed are,
|
|
but is not boiling around the edges, it's just right. No pressure
|
|
will build up in the bottle and you are applying the maximum amount
|
|
of heat possible with this apparatus.
|
|
|
|
Cool the bottle by sliding the pan off the burner a bit or changing
|
|
the position of the bottle in the simmering water. Only tiny changes
|
|
are necessary and it's pretty easy to get it just right. Needless to
|
|
say you will blow up like Richard Pryor if you screw the cap on too
|
|
tight or leave it unattended.
|
|
|
|
Remember that ethanol boils at about 180f and water at 212f.
|
|
|
|
|
|
After about 5 minutes of boiling, the alcohol began to take on a
|
|
pleasant jade-green color, but several attempts have shown that 30 minutes of
|
|
boiling seems to be optimal. (It is sort of interesting to note that the weed
|
|
used in all cases was brown, without a hint of green, yet this lovely color
|
|
occurred every time). You may notice a dark green ring forming around the
|
|
edges of the liquid - swirl the bottle every now and again to return it to
|
|
solution.
|
|
|
|
After 30 minutes, filter out as much of the liquid as you can.
|
|
You'll be looking at about a shot of emerald vodka, slightly cloudy and with
|
|
a strong smell of fresh grass, not at all unpleasant if you like that sort of
|
|
thing. Remember that is is still 190 proof and do not drink it straight.
|
|
|
|
Those who sampled it did so mixed with very scientific plain water.
|
|
About a half hour later, maybe a bit sooner, a nice 'second beer' buzz kicked
|
|
in, leaving them fully functional, happy, talkative, horny, and fun to be
|
|
around. Driving would not be a good idea at this point but they felt like
|
|
they could - I mention this not as a hint but as a means of expressing the
|
|
depth of the effect. Frankly, we had hoped for more.
|
|
|
|
Drinking more of the stuff made them no higher but prolonged the
|
|
effects, including the sort of a next-day hangover normally associated with a
|
|
serious amount of smoke.
|
|
|
|
The issue of if, and how, this stuff will keep was not explored.
|
|
Traditionally, herbal tinctures are stored at room temperature in small, full,
|
|
dark bottles to protect the solution from air and light. I suspect it probably
|
|
will not keep very long.
|
|
|
|
|
|
A further experiment to explore a the concentration process
|
|
was performed as follows:
|
|
|
|
A palmful of very weak weed was extracted into about 30cc (2 shots)
|
|
of grain alcohol as above. Two joints were rolled from the same stuff and
|
|
a drying rack, consisting of a wire oven rack held 3 inches over an electric
|
|
stove set on low, was constructed.
|
|
|
|
Each joint was dipped for a count of five into the very dark,
|
|
almost black liquid that resulted, then placed on the rack to dry. Drying
|
|
took an unexpectedly long time (several minutes) and the thinner of the two
|
|
joints proved to be the most satisfactory. After several dips, about
|
|
half the liquid was absorbed into the now green, sticky joints and the
|
|
remaining liquid was set aside.
|
|
|
|
Several hours later the smaller joint dried to a weird dark
|
|
olive-drab color that looked suspiciously military. It's taste was
|
|
distinctive and not unpleasant - it might not have been fully dry -
|
|
and it worked out just fine, a gain on the subjective scale from
|
|
Barely Smokable to Pretty Good. As there are only two higher levels
|
|
(Damn Good and F*cking Outrageous) which cover the understandably
|
|
large top end of the ratings, I found this to be terrifically successful.
|
|
|
|
Possibly all that we have done here is to reinvent 'hash oil' a
|
|
pleasant enough substance that was notorious for rapidly degrading over time.
|
|
Indeed, we found that after a week these things became worthless.
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasure;
|
|
the limits of good and evil join." -- Fuller
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
|
|
-- Ripley
|
|
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|
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|
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
|
|
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
|
|
Subject: THC
|
|
Message-ID: <1991Nov14.063027.2104@milton.u.washington.edu>
|
|
Date: 14 Nov 91 06:30:27 GMT
|
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|
|
Another excerpt from Psychedelic Chemistry from Loompanics Ultd.
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|
THC Extraction
|
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|
|
Some samples of grass have considerable THC acid. In order to extract this
|
|
it is first necessary to decarboxylate it by heating it to 100 degrees for
|
|
fifteen minutes. Grass grown commercially for its fiber content, as well as
|
|
that grown in nothern Europe or much of the U.S.A., contains mostly the
|
|
inactive cannabidiol and cannabidiolic acid. These compounds can be
|
|
extracted and used to synthesize the active THC and THC acid (by smoking,
|
|
not active orally) in one step. See Tetrahedron 21, 1228(1965) or the
|
|
following. To extract, add 50g grass/liter petroleum ether or benzene; soak
|
|
twelve hours with occasional shaking; filter and extract petroleum ether
|
|
three times with a solution containing 5% NaOH and 5% Na2SO3. Acidify the
|
|
aqueous extracts with cold dilute sulfuric acid and extract with ether or
|
|
chloroform which is dried, evaporated in a vacuum to yield the cannabidiolic
|
|
acid. THC and cannabidiol remain in the petrolium ether which can be dried
|
|
and evaporated in a vacuum and the residue added to the grass. THC acid is
|
|
converted to THC by boiling in benzene for seven hours.
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|
|
|
THC Extraction for smuggling or Converting Poor Grass to Good
|
|
|
|
This is recommended to anyone who wants to smuggle or otherwise conceal
|
|
grass or hash. One hundred kilos of grass will convert to about two or three
|
|
kilos of resin, which can later be redissolved and absorbed on alfalfa, etc.
|
|
See Lloydia 33, 453(1970) for a method of large scale extraction.
|
|
Cover grass or hash with methanol, benzene, petroleum ether, or isopropyl
|
|
(rubbing) alcohol. Allow to soak for about twelve hours, filter and repeat
|
|
soaking with fresh solvent. This process can be speeded up by gently heating
|
|
the solvent plus grass (no flames) for about three hours, adding more solvent
|
|
if necessary. Evaporate the combined solvent extracts until a resin is
|
|
obtained or until syrupy and absorb the syrup on grass, etc. Repeat the
|
|
process until no more resin is obtained, or until smoking some of the
|
|
residual grass indicates that all the THC has been extracted. Methylene
|
|
chloride works very well. Unleaded gas, preferably without additives (white
|
|
gas), paint thinner or remover, or turpentine should be satasfactory. For
|
|
a detailed discussion, see MARIJUANA POTENCY, And/Or Press (1977).
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|
|
|
--
|
|
Lamont Granquist "If the principle were to prevail of a common law [ie.
|
|
lamontg@u.washington.edu a single government] being in force in the United
|
|
States...it would become the most corrupt government
|
|
on the Earth" -- Thomas Jefferson to G Granger (1800)
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