st0wandgrow
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For any of you that are interested here is the process that the one dude (Nate??) from the show Weed Country used to make the high cbd tincture for the child with seizures.
[h=5]The Organic Ethanol Method - making a "whole plant" CBD tincture using organic ethanol.
I used Halent Laboratories to test this system at every stage. Halent has allowed me to "fine tune" this system using there state of the art analyses methods. please visit www.Halent.com or call (530) 219-4366. Halent offers a test that is in depth and credible. They test for molds and 30 pesticides, 15 cannabinoids, and 8 terpenoids.
Equipment list: Heated stir plate with magnet, Vapor hood, 800 ml glass beaker with lid, Organic ethanol, sealable vessels.
Step 1 Have your whole flower tested in order to make sure it is safe and high in CBD. Once your sure you have the right plant material, grind the flowers into a fine powder using a CLEAN coffee grinder. If the plant material is not fully dry, allow it to stay at room temperature uncovered in a low humidity environment until it is fully dry.
Step 2 Decarboxylate the plant material by wrapping it tightly in tin foil. Keep the plant material at a uniform 1 inch thickness. Put in the oven
@ 310f for 30 minutes. then remove from the oven and place in the freezer for 10 minutes to cool. Under ideal conditions CBDA will convert to CBD at a rate of 65%. Decarboxylating medical cannabis makes it psychoactive.
Step 3 Weigh the plant material before putting it in a beaker with 10 ml of ethanol for every gram of plant matter. Add a stir magnet and put on a stir plate unheated for 12 hours (6 may be enough). Make sure you cover the beaker, and leave it under a fume hood. Do not allow open flame anywhere near ethanol.
Step 4 Strain the plant matter using vacuum filtration.
Step 5 Pore the strained tincture into a clean glass beaker. leaving the lid off, boil away the ethanol until you have a pure oil. Again, leave under a fume hood at all times to avoid risk of explosion.
Step 6 Once you have boiled away the ethanol, you will have a thick oil. Transfer this oil into a sealed container and bring this oil to Halent (if possible) to be tested, weighed, and diluted in a small amount of organic ethanol to maintain stable dosing.
Here are three cost saving tricks:
1. You can substitute an oven hood for a fume hood.
2. You can substitute a coffee filter and a funnel for a vacuum filter.
3. You can use non organic ethanol during step 3. As long as you boil it away. use a small amount of organic ethanol for step 6 because that is going to be ingested. EXTREME CAUTION- alway make sure the ethanol is not Denatured. Denatured Ethanol is poison (containing methanol and isopropyl alcohol).[/h]
[h=5]The Organic Ethanol Method - making a "whole plant" CBD tincture using organic ethanol.
I used Halent Laboratories to test this system at every stage. Halent has allowed me to "fine tune" this system using there state of the art analyses methods. please visit www.Halent.com or call (530) 219-4366. Halent offers a test that is in depth and credible. They test for molds and 30 pesticides, 15 cannabinoids, and 8 terpenoids.
Equipment list: Heated stir plate with magnet, Vapor hood, 800 ml glass beaker with lid, Organic ethanol, sealable vessels.
Step 1 Have your whole flower tested in order to make sure it is safe and high in CBD. Once your sure you have the right plant material, grind the flowers into a fine powder using a CLEAN coffee grinder. If the plant material is not fully dry, allow it to stay at room temperature uncovered in a low humidity environment until it is fully dry.
Step 2 Decarboxylate the plant material by wrapping it tightly in tin foil. Keep the plant material at a uniform 1 inch thickness. Put in the oven
@ 310f for 30 minutes. then remove from the oven and place in the freezer for 10 minutes to cool. Under ideal conditions CBDA will convert to CBD at a rate of 65%. Decarboxylating medical cannabis makes it psychoactive.
Step 3 Weigh the plant material before putting it in a beaker with 10 ml of ethanol for every gram of plant matter. Add a stir magnet and put on a stir plate unheated for 12 hours (6 may be enough). Make sure you cover the beaker, and leave it under a fume hood. Do not allow open flame anywhere near ethanol.
Step 4 Strain the plant matter using vacuum filtration.
Step 5 Pore the strained tincture into a clean glass beaker. leaving the lid off, boil away the ethanol until you have a pure oil. Again, leave under a fume hood at all times to avoid risk of explosion.
Step 6 Once you have boiled away the ethanol, you will have a thick oil. Transfer this oil into a sealed container and bring this oil to Halent (if possible) to be tested, weighed, and diluted in a small amount of organic ethanol to maintain stable dosing.
Here are three cost saving tricks:
1. You can substitute an oven hood for a fume hood.
2. You can substitute a coffee filter and a funnel for a vacuum filter.
3. You can use non organic ethanol during step 3. As long as you boil it away. use a small amount of organic ethanol for step 6 because that is going to be ingested. EXTREME CAUTION- alway make sure the ethanol is not Denatured. Denatured Ethanol is poison (containing methanol and isopropyl alcohol).[/h]