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foodcrisis

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didn't notice any threads specifically about RSO in my search, so i'm starting this one.

So RSO is short for Rick Sampson Oil. most people probably know Rick Sampson's the dude that made this wonderful THC extraction popular... Some how, maybe some one wants to explain, some how RSO is an edible (i believe you can smoke it too) that kicks in more than twice as fast as regular edibles, and some people describe it to have effects more similar to smoking cannabis than just the regular edible extraction.

So usually i take between 25-50mgs of regular thc edibles... because my father was gifting me some and he only had a 100mg package, i took 15mgs from him as a gift not to take his whole stash... i don't really notice too big of a difference between 25 to 50mgs of regular edibles, but i have to say the 15mgs RSO definitely hit harder than the 25mgs and within under a half hour it was in full effect.. my honest review is it felt like i smoked weed, and my biggest complaint about regular edibles is that i don't feel the exact effects of smoking.

my trip report pretty much goes like this: ten minutes or so after ingesting, my father and i went to do some things in his car. we took a short ride to the weed store, and while i was in there i went through the line like normal. i put in my order. at this store, they sometimes make you wait off to the side while people in back prepare the order... so i was off to the side, and i thought i left my wallet at the counter but it was actually in my hand. like right then i felt how dumb the weed was making me. like it may've been a bit of a placebo and the high started from a small panic attack, but it was pretty similar feeling to my teenage days of going out in public while super baked... some bro dude started laughing at me. he fist bumped me cause i was telling him about how i was stoned from the edibles as a birthday gift from my father. we also quickly talked about how good the weed store prices were..... anways when i got out of the weed store i could tell i was high, definitely surprised i only took 15mgs. i wasn't even expecting it to hit me... after that i went to the grocery store, and i haven't been on any drugs other than caffeine at the grocery store since like 2018 when i used to be on lsd analogues so much that i'd just go to the store... i have to say i'd probably rather go to the grocery store on a low dose of acid as opposed to a strong dose of cannabis.. like i took being in the store to be pretty humorous, but i was generally too high to be out in public. i wouldn't want to drive a car even on 15mgs of edibles... after getting out of the liquor store, i also stood in the sun for like ten minutes waiting for my father to get out of the grocery store. it felt good.

so anyways, i went home and smoked some weed... i was more baked than if i were to just smoked weed for a few hours, but the RSO didn't really seem to last that long with the weed.. maybe i just stopped noticing i was high though. that's probably it. i'm thinking RSO might wear off a little faster than regular edibles though. Anybody have any thoughts on that?

Anyways, RSO is definitely better than i thought it would be, and i will definitely be trying more, but probably not for a while cause it's usually twice the price as regular edibles at the stores i go to and they barely ever have tinctures, and also i'm in my final days of living with my parents over the next few years and will be moving into smoke free housing, so i've just been hitting the bong like a mad man... i'm definitely excited for RSO in the future when i have to move out to smoke free housing and might not be able to always get out and go some place to smoke up. glad it exists...


HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT RSO??? I CAN'T SEE HOW IT WOULD HAVE BAD REVIEWS.. ALMOST ALWAYS HAVE HEARD GOOD REVIEWS IN MY YEARS READING ABOUT IT... IS YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH RSO SIMILAR TO MINE?
 
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I fukkin loves me some RSO

It seems to me to be less well thought of than yer live resins etc for some reason, maybe cos it's a full-spectrum / full plant extraction black oily sludge, dunno

It definitely feels a more 'rounded' high to me than other concentrates. It doesn't seem that potent dabbed or vaped to me but in an edible, fukkkkk, very very potent. I like melted into hot milk which I then make a coffee with. Gotta be real careful with doses cos if you have too much you are incapacitated in a big way for a long time (10 hours easily)
 
like to hear it will get you for 10 hours easy.... gives me some hope i just messed with my buzz smoking.
 
I use rso sometimes. Was thinking about it tonight but figured if I'm gonna smoke a bowl with some hash in it, I'd pass on the RSO. Shit is expensive but i feel like it has a better bioavailability than regular edibles. I definitely think it's more cerebral than thc isolate like said above.

It also for sure has more therapeutic effects. I think if it didn't cost so much I'd switch my smoking for rso only, it just seems like the better option, taking it at the start of the day once, and then a little more at the end is more efficient than smoking all day, plus you're utilizing more thc than you're blowing out.
 
I've been taking RSO 4-5 times a day for the last two months. It's the tits. I've been diluting it 9:1 in ethanol or MCT oil to make it easier to dose.
someguyontheinternet said:
If you make your own RSO its way cheaper
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It sounds really easy. The only issue is the smell.

Well that and the non-negligable chance of blowing my kitchen up...
 
Shinji Ikari said:
I've been taking RSO 4-5 times a day for the last two months. It's the tits. I've been diluting it 9:1 in ethanol or MCT oil to make it easier to dose.

It sounds really easy. The only issue is the smell.

Well that and the non-negligable chance of blowing my kitchen up...
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I've been really lazy and I just squeeze some out of the syringe with some eyeballed cbd distillate in a capsule... I should make tinctures again soon
 
Shinji Ikari said:
I've been taking RSO 4-5 times a day for the last two months. It's the tits. I've been diluting it 9:1 in ethanol or MCT oil to make it easier to dose.

It sounds really easy. The only issue is the smell.

Well that and the non-negligable chance of blowing my kitchen up...
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cool to hear you can take it frequently and you can enjoy it, even though 4-5 times a day seems like a lot of redosing to me, but that's what i do smoking so it makes sense....

i was also gonna ask if making the RSO has a smell, which i assumed it did, but if you can also blow the kitchen up, that's definitely not for me... if it didn't have a smell, i'd probably get into making it, but i'm gonna be living at federal housing and weed stuff is illegal on the property
 
foodcrisis said:
cool to hear you can take it frequently and you can enjoy it, even though 4-5 times a day seems like a lot of redosing to me, but that's what i do smoking so it makes sense....

i was also gonna ask if making the RSO has a smell, which i assumed it did, but if you can also blow the kitchen up, that's definitely not for me... if it didn't have a smell, i'd probably get into making it, but i'm gonna be living at federal housing and weed stuff is illegal on the property
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You use a solvent like isopropyl alcohol to extract the good stuff from your plant material and then evaporate the solvent off in a rice cooker. You need a well ventilated space and I imagine it stinks for miles.
 
oh yeah. i heard that you can make RSO with isopropyl. i made iso shatter and it didn't seem that great to me. it looked like all other shatter, but i think i've had better shatter. i used some bud in the mix that wasn't so great and less of a percentage of good bud, so maybe that's why it wasn't up to par. the stuff made me really tired smoking it. that could be a postive thing for some people.. i got a pretty uplifted high from the RSO edibles i ate. more uplifted than a regular edible.
 
foodcrisis said:
oh yeah. i heard that you can make RSO with isopropyl. i made iso shatter and it didn't seem that great to me. it looked like all other shatter, but i think i've had better shatter. i used some bud in the mix that wasn't so great and less of a percentage of good bud, so maybe that's why it wasn't up to par. the stuff made me really tired smoking it. that could be a postive thing for some people.. i got a pretty uplifted high from the RSO edibles i ate. more uplifted than a regular edible.
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You mean cold QWISO?

Usually its advised to use ethanol for extractions that will be consumed
 
someguyontheinternet said:
You mean cold QWISO?

Usually its advised to use ethanol for extractions that will be consumed
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yeah i'm reading a link and what i did is really close to what people are calling QWISO... it says the quality of the bud definitely matters for the final product... the website i'm on says food grade ISO is okay to be used... i heard people from the 70's calling it ISO shatter, QWISO must be the proper term.
 
I thought it just stood for quick isopropyl alcohol wash tbh

Gotta do it cold. Both the alcohol and flower should be at freezer temps, flower should be ground. Also have a precooled container with a cooled filter ready to go

Dump cold alcohol on cold bud, swirl around a few times, immediately dump into cold filter


You know the rest....
 
someguyontheinternet said:
I thought it just stood for quick isopropyl alcohol wash tbh

Gotta do it cold. Both the alcohol and flower should be at freezer temps, flower should be ground. Also have a precooled container with a cooled filter ready to go

Dump cold alcohol on cold bud, swirl around a few times, immediately dump into cold filter


You know the rest....
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whoah. i didn't know cold would help... good info. thanks
 
Cold helps to prevent dissolving fats and waxes. Its the standard defatting technique but these days I think most don't use alcohol unless they're doing RSO.

Those big closed loop systems have multiple stages and now they have temp control on the chambers. Running the solution over cold ball bearings will remove solidified fats and waxes. Another technique is extracting with the hydrocarbon then transferring to alcohol, cooling the alcohol to allow fats and waxes to precipitate, and filtering.

Doing the quick wash fast and cold should give a nice crispy shatter with a slight green tinge, if you want to try and prevent the tinge maybe dry the alcohol a bit to get rid of water. There will be stuff left over in the flower after for subsequent extractions or w/e else

This may count as drug manufacturing in your area so please be aware of local laws and regulations and none of this is legal or medical advice
 
daturetard said:
Are you to evaporate the ethanol you use for the pull first? It sounds like it might explode if not.
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Generally I think that's how its done in industry. Usually a rotovap to recover and reuse the alcohol. I'm actually not sure how decarb is done in the industry though... Possibly just heating in a water jacked reactor?
 
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