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My Grandpa Made a Tincture...

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Psychonautical

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Okay, so my mom was telling me that my Grandpa asked for all of the leaves and stalks from her marijuana plants that she had been growing. Apparently he makes this tincture. He grinds up all the plant matter, and then soaks it, in isopropyl alcohol for like a week. Then he drains out all the plant matter.
and Puts it into 1 pint Mason Jars.

Now, i know that is "oil" and Cholorphyl and a bunch of other plant oils all floating in this mason jar.

He applies it to his skin and says it works as a Salve that helps with the arthritus in his knees.


He gave my mom 1 pint, of marijuana tincture.


Now, i know if you just evaporate the isopropyl off. that is one way to have oil. Very low quality oil.

But, now, if you were to ... i dunno, add butane to the mix...

What would happen? would it purify at all? or... am i extremely mistaken.
 
You could purify it more, but it shouldn't of been soaked that long in iso, you only need to to be soaked for a small amount of time. Soaking it that longer will just do like you said, extract more of the chlorophyll and undesirable components.
 
Once the chlorophyll and waxes are extracted into the iso I'm unaware of any way to reverse the process. It's possible some of the wax could be filtered out with an appropriate set of multi micron filters, but without knowing the appropriate sizes you'd probably end up collecting a fair amount of the active material with the inactive material. You're probably best off just using it for topical pain relief as intended.
 
Hey if it works for your grandpa thats brilliant, my grandma has some pretty bad arthritis (to the point she has trouble just getting to bed somtimes...)

I Might save up all my spare parts and see if this is of any help to her. (she's expressed interest in trying brownies to help with the pain before so she'll probably be open to the idea)

Sadly I don't know the answer to your quesiton, sorry bout derailing the thread..
 
StereoLogic said:
Theres only one good way to make oil, and you might just blow your house up doing it!
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well if you are refering to BHO then yes i agree it is the best way to make oil but not the only way to make good oil

you can end up with a pretty good product using the QWISO method

problem with doin the QWISO method with this guys tincture is that it is probably too late for the QW part of QWISO

QWISO stands for quick wash iso, when makin oil outta ISO it is essential to only leave the weed in contact with the iso for 30 seconds to 2 minutes tops
IMHO 30sec-60sec is optimal.

anyways though if you would like to smoke this tincture then as it has been stated just evaporate the ISO n then scrape up your goodies n smoke

however havin a good effective topical oil is kinda a rarity for stoners (not that it is hard to make just rare) so i suggest keepin it n usin it as is, however i understand you prob dont have arthritis n joint pain like ur g-pa n would probably rather get 'high' so i guess do what you want


also i have heard of people BHO'in other forms of hash such as kief n bubble hash in order to make a more potent oil. i havent ever heard of BHO'in QWISO, but i suspect it is doable. check out tokecity .com <-- Im sure someone there has BHO'ed QWISO before, there are lots of oil heads hangin round that place
 
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