This is an article out of treating yourself that i thought might be helpful. I know its not about tinctures ,but i thought it might be helpful.
THC Oil
Made Safely and Naturally
By Joe Pietri
Nearly 50 years ago I made THC hash oil in Nepal, that today some think is a new innovative technique. I used
Iso alcohol and ether, first cooking up hashish resin using kerosene stoves, outside in my yard, being careful not
to get the mix too hot, I used a thermometer to keep the temperature below what would destroy the THC, after
simmering I filtered the mix through nylon cloth, this liquid I let cool and then introduced ether to help the alcohol
evaporate, when I introduced the ether to the alcohol resin mix flames from Shiva were seen. I am so lucky
I did not blow myself up. Many did, oil labs went up in Kabul, and DD Sharma the owner of the Inn Eden on
Freak Street in Katmandu blew his privates off. The brotherhood reprocessed the oil made in Asia, with proper
laboratory filtering, they produced the wonderful honey oil we remember. The oil I made was black and amber
when you spread it on joint. The oil I made was very good. So to see the same methodology today being called
innovative is humorous. I used 10 kilos of hashish resin to make one kilo of hash oil, figuring it took 100 kilos
of cannabis to make 10 kilos of hashish resin, each kilo of oil represented 100 kilos of cannabis, one gram vials
of my oil equaled 100 grams of cannabis. Those vials last, as all you need was a pin to wipe a thin line across
your rolling paper before you rolled a joint.
Here is a simple method of making oil naturally at home safely, and as strong as you need it to be. I will explain
a simple technique where as you can have dosage control.
Today many are making oil, with cannabis material though it’s bulky and will never be as strong, or as good a
medicine as if you made it with resin hashish. Why?
Marketing fraud has retarded the methods needed to make quality medicine by attaching systems made obsolete
by the very method ie bags. The use of bags has killed the making of quality hashish by diluting the original formula.
It’s so bad that stoners and med patients go ugh, and rather smoke bud than poorly made hashish that
does not work, has no flavor, aroma, taste. This should be just opposite, the hash is a concentrated form of the
bud you make it from, with much stronger flavor, taste, aroma.
Simple test is to use Okief’s tumbler (Okief.com), smoked product should taste exactly the same as bud material
used, yet when you apply bag technique you lose flavor taste and aroma. Just like bags make crap hash, it
makes even worse oil and makes no sense. Just see the Oregon chewing gum hash we make here and then imagine
the oil we make from this. The method above is completely natural, must be refrigerated, and is only edible.
If I were to use whole buds, I would make tincture, using vegetable glycerine, with the option of making stronger
potion using resin.
First step is to extract resin glands from
cannabis material. I used the XTR 1000, but
you can use the Ice-cold kit and build your
own extraction device for a $100. (Icecold.org)
Using the XTR 1000 I processed 180 grams of
sugar trim and buds, Correct Ice method protocol
must be followed. From this I extracted
20 grams of pure trichomes.
After drying in my dehydrator and letting sit
overnight, I then crumble the resin, which I
then introduced to the 250ml of the finest
quality Canadian hemp oil, in this case I used
Manitoba Harvest Organic hemp oil, I used the
500ml bottle.
I have a cheap crockpot I bought at the VA for
$20, it has 3 settings high/low/warm, I set it on
warm, which is the lowest setting. I then introduce
oil and resin which dissolves into the
hemp oil after 1-2 hrs with occasional stirring,
when completely dissolved, I let mix cool
down, then I bottle it in 30ml or 120 ml eye
dropper bottles, this makes about 16 ozs. So
every 30 ml equals 11.25 grams of the original
cannabis per bottle, or 1.125 grams of extract.
This enables me to make controlled dosages at
strengths of varying degrees depending on the
amount of extract resin introduced into the
hemp oil. If I would have used 40grams of
extract using same quantity hemp oil it would
be double strength. Actually you get some
more because extract adds weight. But this
should give you a clear picture.
This is the finest and safest way to make edible
oil at home naturally using no solvents, just
water-ice-cannabis resin- hemp oil. Normally I
use straight bud for making my tinctures and
only make this resin hemp oil, as it is very
expensive to produce.
