This file will describe, in detail, a technique of extracting the essential oils from hemp. The final product will be a dark, oily liquid that contains 80+% pure THC. The following steps require nothing more than simple, easy to find materials and a little time.
You'll need to chop up your weed and pick apart the buds until it
looks like grass clippings. Remove any seeds,they have their own oils
which we don't want. Use the metal cup and heat 1 cup of grain alcohol
until it's good and hot. Only use ELECTRIC stoves for this step,also
use the overhead fan to draw away alcohol fumes. Dump the chopped up
weed into the mason jar and pour the hot alcohol onto the weed. There
should have been enough alcohol to completely cover the weed and let it
float around freely. Place the lid securely on the jar after it has
cooled enough to touch it. Secure the lid and shake it a few times.
The purpose of heating the alcohol before adding it to the weed helps
soften the THC oil and to change THC-acids into THC, making your final
product more potent.
Let this mixture sit for a few hours, shaking it every once in a
while. The alcohol should have turned a dark green color and when shaken
should form small, colorful, oily bubbles on top.
Place the sturdy cloth over the metal container and press the cloth
down to form a funnel. Carefully pour the contents of the mason jar onto
the cloth which is in the metal cup. Make sure to get most of the weed
particles out of the jar. Gather up the edges of the cloth and squeeze
the remaining liquid out of the lump of weed into the metal cup.
Take the metal cup containing the green liquid over to the stove.
Turn one of the ELECTRIC eyes on LOW setting and place the metal cup on
that burner. I HIGHLY suggest using the fan over the stove to remove the
alcohol vapors during this entire step. Watch the liquid closely.
It should only boil slightly, *NEVER* raise the burner temperature above
MEDIUM LOW. If the temperature of the mixture gets too high,THC will
begin to evaporate into thin air...you certainly don't want this to
happen. We need the liquid to cook down until it's *slightly* thicker.
This may take some time but be patient.
Once the liquid starts to thicken and turn darker,remove it from
the heat. Never let it get too thick or it'll be too difficult to work
with. If you do accidentally make it too thick,just add a small quantity
of the grain alcohol to the metal cup and swirl it around till it's
thinner.
Let it cool down to room temperature inside the metal cup. It should
be runny enough to be poured into the eye-dropper bottle easily. Use some
aluminum foil to make a small funnel so as not to spill any of the oil.
You now have your final product:THC-Oil. It's necessary to have some
grain alcohol left in the resulting liquid so it's easy to work with.
This will not affect the potency of the oil.
This part is for the people with GAS stoves. DO NOT USE A GAS STOVE TO COOK DOWN ALCOHOL! The vapors will explode! You'll have to have patience to complete this step. To get a final product just put the metal container in a place where it won't be disturbed. The alcohol will have to evaporate on its own. If at all possible keep it in a slightly warm area with decent ventilation. It may take days. If you just can't wait for that long it is possible to replace alcohol with acetone. NEVER heat acetone under ANY circumstances! It is toxic and will explode if heated. Just use room-temperature acetone and soak the weed for about 4-6 hours in the mason jar. Shake it once in a while. Strain it through the sturdy cloth into a 9 X 9 cake pan and squeeze all liquid out of the lump. Let the liquid sit until it *ALL* of the acetone has evaporated. Acetone is used because it evaporates very quickly and leaves no residue. Be sure to use only pure acetone, *NOT* finger nail polish remover. Scrape up all the resulting stuff into a small container and mix with about 2 tablespoons of grain alcohol or until disolved. Pour this liquid into your eye-dropper. You now have THC oil!
You have the oil in the eye-dropper bottle and you're ready to smoke some? Clean up your mess first. You don't want to have to explain why a rag of wet marijuana is lying on the kitchen table do you? Wash out the jar, the metal cup, and throw away the cloth. Throw away the weed too, it's useless. Use a water/alcohol mixture to wash out the jar and cup.
Make a "spoon" out of the aluminum foil. This takes some practice but
you'll get a design that works. Put 6-8 drops of the oil into the "spoon"
and hold it about 4" over the flame. It should begin to boil slightly.
Don't let it get too close to the flame just yet. It'll cook down and turn
very dark brown and begin to make crackling sounds. Now you should lower
the spoon so the THC is directly over the flame. The spoon is still face
up, we're just really putting the heat to it. Hold the Bic pen tube about
1" above the dark brown area and inhale through the tube. You'll see a
white smoke come up from the dark area, this is vaporized THC. Once you
have a lungfull, remove the spoon from the flame. You'll feel the effects
almost instantly. Exhale and place the spoon back over the flame and
inhale again. You may notice THC has a distinct taste, aromatic and
almost sweet. It won't take long to know when all the THC in the spoon
is gone, you'll taste a charred, burned smoke instead of THC.
Once you've smoked what's in the spoon, put a few more drops in and
repeat as many times as you want. On occasion i've smoked so much at one
time that all I could do was lay on the floor with a stupid look on my
face. Also, i've noticed I get a bad case of "cotton mouth",it's normal.
If you're a smoker,you can put a few drops into a cigarette,let it dry,
and feel free to catch a buzz without the smell.
I've found I get a much higher quality buzz using oil. It seems to
take forever to finish it all off. Using 1/4 oz of average weed, performing
this project,I end up with the equivalent of 3/4 oz great weed. I'm not lying,
it really feels like that! When i'm in the mood for that "end-all-be-all
buzz from hell",it only takes me 10 minutes of smoking oil and i'm seeing
purple lizards! Once I had about 4 grams of weed-dust,did this project,
ended up getting stoned for 5 days straight.
Feedback on this project has been very favorable. I've only heard of 2 people
who were unsucessful with it, both had made fatal mistakes by heating the
thc oil/alcohol on HIGH heat. On the other hand i've read 45-50 people who had
great success! Almost every one of those said they prefer this method over
joint/bong smoking. Replies have come from all over the globe and I look
forward to reading more!