RockyThunder
Greenlighter
Hi everyone,
I'm a first time poster so I'm sorry if this might belong in a different forum, but we're dealing with prescription thc pills here.
So, I have been prescribed Marinol for three years now, for appetite stimulation and reduction of nausea related to side effects from various organ transplant medications. It works amazingly and has definitely made my quality of life better.
Now, it does have three major problems. First it must be refrigerated. It is fine out of the fridge for two or three days but after that they're useless. Second, when I take them, they can take anywhere from 45 min to 8 hours to come on, leaning more towards the 8 hours side of things if taken during the day and towards the 45 min side of things at night. Third, there is no way to accurately control the dosage. Most of the time, 5mg is just right. . Occasionally, it's not enough. Occasionally, it can be so strong that I feel like my life is a movie and I'm just the audience.
I have no idea why they are like this. I always figured that the company that made it engineered it with some weird quirks to keep it from working too well so that they could continue to try to deceive the general public into thinking that marijuana can't be a viable medicine. Well, the other day I came up with an idea to possibly make it work better.
What I would like to do is dissolve the Liquid inside the Marinol capsules into a solvent that could then be sprayed or dropped sublingually, in standardized dosages, so that I can get exactly the desired effect without waiting forever for it to hit. The oil inside the capsules alone does not work.
The liquid inside the capsules is just sesame oil with synthetic THC dissolved in it. My bright idea was to use high proof ethanol as a solvent, however, according to a quick google search, this would only be able to partially dissolve the sesame oil. Before I go and try to find out just how partial partially is, I am looking for some informed advice from anyone with a knowledge of chemistry out there.
1. Will the ethanol work?
2. If it won't, can anyone suggest any other possible solvents that are also healthy to be ingesting.
(Before anyone says it, I know real cannabis is better and that I could brew up a tincture with the real stuff. Unfortunately due to other cannaboids that seem to have a GFJ-like effect on some of the transplant medications, this is out of the question)
Thank you for any help you guys can offer!
-The Rocky Thunder
I'm a first time poster so I'm sorry if this might belong in a different forum, but we're dealing with prescription thc pills here.
So, I have been prescribed Marinol for three years now, for appetite stimulation and reduction of nausea related to side effects from various organ transplant medications. It works amazingly and has definitely made my quality of life better.
Now, it does have three major problems. First it must be refrigerated. It is fine out of the fridge for two or three days but after that they're useless. Second, when I take them, they can take anywhere from 45 min to 8 hours to come on, leaning more towards the 8 hours side of things if taken during the day and towards the 45 min side of things at night. Third, there is no way to accurately control the dosage. Most of the time, 5mg is just right. . Occasionally, it's not enough. Occasionally, it can be so strong that I feel like my life is a movie and I'm just the audience.
I have no idea why they are like this. I always figured that the company that made it engineered it with some weird quirks to keep it from working too well so that they could continue to try to deceive the general public into thinking that marijuana can't be a viable medicine. Well, the other day I came up with an idea to possibly make it work better.
What I would like to do is dissolve the Liquid inside the Marinol capsules into a solvent that could then be sprayed or dropped sublingually, in standardized dosages, so that I can get exactly the desired effect without waiting forever for it to hit. The oil inside the capsules alone does not work.
The liquid inside the capsules is just sesame oil with synthetic THC dissolved in it. My bright idea was to use high proof ethanol as a solvent, however, according to a quick google search, this would only be able to partially dissolve the sesame oil. Before I go and try to find out just how partial partially is, I am looking for some informed advice from anyone with a knowledge of chemistry out there.
1. Will the ethanol work?
2. If it won't, can anyone suggest any other possible solvents that are also healthy to be ingesting.
(Before anyone says it, I know real cannabis is better and that I could brew up a tincture with the real stuff. Unfortunately due to other cannaboids that seem to have a GFJ-like effect on some of the transplant medications, this is out of the question)
Thank you for any help you guys can offer!
-The Rocky Thunder
