THC is heat activated

Originally Posted by DubRules

yeah. its actually all the other cannabinoids that are really activated by heat.
i make activated thc capsules which requires heating cannabis at 220 degrees f for 20 minutes.
the bitch is that if you heat it too much, it just vaporises and you have worthless plant material.

Using a water bath would be a good application for this then.

Take a Large pot, a metal stand that glassware can sit on. Use the same glass you would obtain in chemistry class. Fill the pot up with water. Crush up your good stuff and place in high fat content butter. Do all of this in the glass with now water. Place the glass on the metal stand and begin to heat your water to boiling. Water will maintain a temperature around 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Leave glass in water at a low boil no violent crazy boil for minimum of 6 hours to 12 hours. Since water will only boil at a temperature of 100 degrees, whatevers in the glass will also stay at that temperature.

Once its done, I let the glass cool down to a touchable temp and then poor cool water into the glass. Mix it up and then pour through cheesecloth. place container in fridge, allow to cool. Check it later and there will be a solid which is less dense than the solution sitting under it. Spoon this out and wala you have perfect made weed butter.

here is a great example of what im talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlybn...eature=related

Its easy to mess up because if you are not using the water as a "shield" to the heat, the thc will just vaporize. Your product will still look similar to the correctly made product but with no buzz.

Also, people go on and.... it takes HEAT to do this activation. Not necessarily true. You could sit and stirr THC in a butter solution for a longer period of time and get the same effect, only adding heat speeds up the process.

OMG OMG OMG!!!! I have a Sous Vide Machine which vacuum packs your food (meat usually) and then slow cooks it in a water oven!!!!!

I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT TO TRY THIS!

I didnt even bother reading the thread lol!

THC is also activated by time and or heat.
Heat speeds up the bonding process to the fats or alcohol
Time will allow the same thing to happen
add some MMJ to some olive oil put in dark area for 30 days = about the same as 4-6 hours in crock pot.

and again... some folks have 0 tolerance for many reasons and eating a green bud MAY work for them... the effects are going to differ from user to user

Originally Posted by gioua

THC is also activated by time and or heat.
Heat speeds up the bonding process to the fats or alcohol
Time will allow the same thing to happen
add some MMJ to some olive oil put in dark area for 30 days = about the same as 4-6 hours in crock pot.

and again... some folks have 0 tolerance for many reasons and eating a green bud MAY work for them... the effects are going to differ from user to user

this is refering specifically to de-carboxylation, through heat or dehydration - not time but usually they equate to the same thing. but for it to be effective and convert as many cannabinoids as possible to Delta-9 THC, the most effective, it needs to be in an anaerobic environment - with no air.

scientific perspective

if eating raw cannabis doesn't get you high then how come one time i had just bought a gram of some dank ass sour diesel and i got pulled over and ate the gram of sour d i was fucking sooo baked.

the Placebo Effect even reduces tumors, no shit.

if you were paranoid and ate cannabis thinking it was going to fuck you up it would.
but I think eating raw can get you high, you are still ingesting cannabinoids, which your body does break down and use, it just probably doesnt have the choicest ratio or delta-9-thc or hydroxty-11 or whatever for ingestion and breakdown in the liver/GI tract

im trying the experiment tonight with an 1/8 of bud that I have, and a gram of kif, going to heat activate it in raw form in an anaerobic environment for 6 hrs or more, then im going to test it and bake with it and run comparison batches with the same material untreated and then test them blind on some other people.

its gunna be funnnn!