THC question

[shepj]

I figured since this is more envolved than simply smoking weed, that it may be more appropriate if I posted it here (forgive me if I was incorrect in thinking so).

Anways, here is the question:

Doing a "honey oil" THC extraction, would it be plausible that using wet cannabis would cause the butane to not absorb the chloraphyll in marijuana?

I figure since chlorophyll is water soluble, and butane is only like 6.1mg/100ml that maybe the butane wouldn't take much of the chlorophyll along with it during the extraction? Can someone please confirm or correct this?

Thanks,
jeremy

 

[Temeraroius]

If you dry the weed really really well (to kill as much of the chlorophyll) as possible, and then you soak it in water for long enough to take the chlorophyll out, you would lose some thc but not all. If its a clearer hash oil that you are looking for, I dont think it is going to be a very good method of attaining this.

 

[shepj]

If you dry the weed really really well (to kill as much of the chlorophyll) as possible, and then you soak it in water for long enough to take the chlorophyll out, you would lose some thc but not all. If its a clearer hash oil that you are looking for, I dont think it is going to be a very good method of attaining this.

you shouldn't lose any thc, it's not water soluble?

 

[Hammilton]

That doesn't mean that you won't lose any. You will. Some will end up in the water and then seperate like oil does from water.

Take a cloth and add a little veggie oil into it. Wrap it up really tightly and then place it in water for a day or so. You'll definitely notice the oil on the water surface.

 

[MurphyClox]

Wet plant material will decrease the yield of the THC-extraction. It's a general rule to dry your material as quantitatively as possible if you're intending to extract lipophilic contents.

- Murphy

 

[shepj]

Thanks everyone for the input. Dry it is :-D