Extracting THC from Bong Water?

jyermum

jyermum

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Back in '93 I had a neighbor that would come over every morning and strain our bong water with a coffee filter. We had a large "snapper" bowl on the old school 3ft Grafix and would burn between a half and full oz daily of standard mexican brick between me and my roommates. Back to the story he would come over every morning , strain the water with a coffee filter getting all of the black half burnt chunks out of it and set it under a light bulb to dry it out. He would then fill his pipe with it and smoke it up. He did it daily so it must have worked r he wouldnt keep coming back ... right?
 
BBYY

BBYY

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jyermum said:
Back in '93 I had a neighbor that would come over every morning and strain our bong water with a coffee filter. We had a large "snapper" bowl on the old school 3ft Grafix and would burn between a half and full oz daily of standard mexican brick between me and my roommates. Back to the story he would come over every morning , strain the water with a coffee filter getting all of the black half burnt chunks out of it and set it under a light bulb to dry it out. He would then fill his pipe with it and smoke it up. He did it daily so it must have worked r he wouldnt keep coming back ... right?
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I can see that working. Which is what the original poster wanted to know, As far off track that we did get. But it still boils down to , people using bongs to filter toxins out of the smoke, which in turns gets trapped in the water, Drying out the water and collecting these toxins, with what ever 1/2 burnt buds there is, Is putting a concentrated amount of carcinogens and toxins back into a cycle to get inhaled by the user, which is counter productive to using the bong anyways. But if your the person that dont care about toxins or tar, then by all means go ahead and load that shit up and smoke, I cannot be 100% certain the high your getting is all from detla 9 left over or if its a toxins and of course the combination of both. My common sense will say that the level of toxins will greatly outnumber the precious delta 9 that we want.
 
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newkirk

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I read a post a few years ago where someone said that in a fit of desperation he drank bong water and got stoned. Considering that thc enhanced smoke has passed through the water it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities that some residual amounts of thc are suspended in the water. I just don't think I would ever be brave enough to drink it. Or perhaps pour it into a shallow glass bowl/pan and let it evaporate, scrape up what ever is left. Sort of like ISO hash.
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This is the original post I made, just being speculative about the original post, note it was just for fun:

Ok so its been a while since i have changed my bong water. its practically black. i did this because i was pondering about extracting the thc from the water. i read somewhere a while back that you can use alcohol to extract the thc and after it evaporates you are left with low quality hash. has anyone does this before? is there any other methods of using the bong water to get high? dont be cruel, its just a fun question.
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BBYY - you do miss the point between a suspension and solubility. As stated the water would not change color and smell if chemical residues from the smoke were not present as a result of the smoke passing through the water. Having known people who took pride in not changing their bong water for long periods of time, it seems to me that
it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities that some residual amounts of thc are suspended in the water.
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Roast beef isn't soluble in water, but if you drink water saturated with enough roast beef you will reap the nutrients of the roast beef because the roast beef was suspended in the water. Again. I did not state that to start an argument, just having fun with the original post.

Lets first say, that my post that started all this was towards a kid that posted two different terms, First saying that when smoke passes threw water it must leave something suspended.
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The kid has smoked for over 40 years and used the term might leave something suspended.

Back in '93 I had a neighbor that would come over every morning and strain our bong water with a coffee filter. We had a large "snapper" bowl on the old school 3ft Grafix and would burn between a half and full oz daily of standard mexican brick between me and my roommates. Back to the story he would come over every morning , strain the water with a coffee filter getting all of the black half burnt chunks out of it and set it under a light bulb to dry it out. He would then fill his pipe with it and smoke it up. He did it daily so it must have worked r he wouldnt keep coming back ... right?
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Interesting, he might have been gleaning the fallout from the bowl, or he might have been getting some of the fallout mixed with thc that was possibly suspended in the water and then doing something like I suggested in my original post
pour it into a shallow glass bowl/pan and let it evaporate, scrape up what ever is left. Sort of like ISO hash
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gioua

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no no no... the Key here is ... when you smoke pot thru a bong you MUST have 99% iso in the water portion or the pot wont "bond to the thc"









seriously...anyone who tries the above...=idiot
 
dopeyG

dopeyG

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i gaurantee there is thc in my bong water, because my stem is sooooo loaded with resin that i never smoke because it reeks of bong water so every now and again i will pull a huge glob thru and i know there is thc in this shit and i know i amd not smoking it after it has hit the water, which only leaves it to be somewhere in the water,. Mind you im not going to extract it cause that would just be nasty.
 
dirtsurfr

dirtsurfr

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Back in the day we put good ole Boones Farm apple wine in our bongs.. Smoke out of it for a couple weeks and drink the wine.
Men were men back then LOL!!!
 
narkill01

narkill01

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I couldn't imagine never changing my bong water.. shit can mold in there..yuck man....
I guess if you did anything with it though... you could throw it on the stove in a pan and start to simmer the water... throw some butter in that bitch and let it simmer for a couple hours. strain it out and then you may get some sort of cannabongabutter or something shit i dunno.
 
sso

sso

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amazingly, my cats dont mind bongwater.

i seriously doubt there is much thc in there, but sometimes they just drink out of my gravity bong, whether or not there is fresh water around for them (always is)
 
forgetfulpenguin

forgetfulpenguin

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1.) Evaporate
2.) Extract with Hexane
3.) Direct Fractional Distilation

If it's in there you'll get it out. Also condensed smoke would be a more ideal then just what dissolved in the water. IIRC THC is only ever so slightly soluble in water.

THC and Tropacocaine by Otto Snow
The [cannabis] plant material is extracted with a non-polar organic solvent.
Useful solvents include lower alkanes, such as, for example, hexane,
heptane or iso-octane. The extract containing THC, after solvent removal,
is subjected to fractional distillation under reduced pressure and a first
distillate is collected. In one embodiment of the present invention, the
first distillate is again subjected to fractional distillation at reduced
pressure and a second distillate is collected. The second distillate has a
THC content of greater than 90% by wt.

One kg of the fine powdered marijuana plant material [average
% of THC was about 5.21 %] was macerated with 6 L. hexanes (Hexanes
GR from EM Sciences) in a percolator (9" in diameter from the top and
20" long, cone shaped) for 24 hours at room temperature and filtered.
The macerate was reextracted with 5 L. hexanes for another 24 hours.
The hexane extracts were combined and evaporated under reduced
pressure at low temperature to give 110.7 g residue (11.07% extractives).
The % of THC in the hexane extract was 41.21 %.

One kg of the fine powdered marijuana plant material [average
% ofTHC is 4.42] was macerated with 6 L hexanes and extracted by the
same procedure followed in Example 3 to yield 105.8 g residue (10.58%
extractives). The % of THC in the hexane extract was 40.35% by
GC analysis.

A portion (23 .0 g) of the hexane extract was subjected to
fractional distillation under reduced pressure (vacuum, 0.1-0.2 mmIHg).
The temperature was raised slowly to 160°C. where a small amount of
material «1 g) was collected and left separate. The major fraction
(10.1 g) was collected between 170 and 180°C. GC analysis of this
fraction showed 72.66% THC concentration.
A second portion (25.0 g) of the hexane extract was subjected to
fractional distillation under similar conditions as the first portion. The
major fraction collected between 170-180°C. weighed ll.6 g and had a
THC concentration of 73.62%.
A third portion (25.0 g) of the hexane extract was subjected to
fractional distillation under similar conditions to the previous portions.
The major fraction containing THC weighed 10.2 g and had a THC
concentration of 73.72%.
The three major fractions obtained from the above three distillations
were combined and analyzed. The analysis showed the concentration
of THC to be 70.31%. The mixture (28.9 g) was subjected to
fractional distillation, again under similar conditions. The temperature
was raised slowly to 135°C. under vacuum (0.1-0.15 mmHg) and the
fractions collected were kept aside. The major THC containing fraction
was collected at 140-160°C. and 0.05-0.06 mmIHg. The fraction weight
was 18.4 g and the THC content was 92.15%. Source: Elsohly 2002
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unohu69

unohu69

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narkill01 said:
I couldn't imagine never changing my bong water.. shit can mold in there..yuck man....
I guess if you did anything with it though... you could throw it on the stove in a pan and start to simmer the water... throw some butter in that bitch and let it simmer for a couple hours. strain it out and then you may get some sort of cannabongabutter or something shit i dunno.
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Many moons ago, i did just this, except, we started passing the bong back around, and, well, about 4 1/2 hrs later I remembered the pot on the stove. All the water had evaporated and the pot was stuck to the burner, and never recovered, my mom wasnt impressed. aah the good ol days......
 
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newkirk

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IIRC THC is only ever so slightly soluble in water.
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Yo recall correctly but it was suggested that thc, after being extracted from the marijuana in the form of smoke might suspend in the bong water.Solubility wouldn't be an issue.
 
$waGgEr

$waGgEr

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i would think a lil bit of thc is left in the water pry less then 5%.. is making a low grade hash realy worth playing with things like wood alchohal that are highly combustable? id say no...you dont wana be that guy on channel 5 news that burns down his house trying to catch a buzz...my old hippie buddy used to talk about filtering bog water and using it to brew tea or coffee i think that would be the best bet if you are realy wanting to use the bong water to catch a buzz..it is possable to extract the thc and other residual cannibinoids but pry not worth the risk of fire and the effort youd have to subject yourself to.
 
$waGgEr

$waGgEr

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and no thc would not chemicly bond to water..it would be a mixture of a trace amount of thc, carsenogens, other impurities, trace cannibinoids, but mostly water...i should mention i am in college for chemestry..like i said its possable but not at all practical in any way.
 
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newkirk

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and no thc would not chemicly bond to water
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Why would it need to bond to anything, couldn't you just drink the water and consume the suspended thc in the water.

And why the wood alcohol?
 
axelash

axelash

Member
SunnyD said:
no u can... i've extracted thc from some mucus i coughed up from taking too big of a hit of OG... i got Ober ripped off that... haha
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NOICE! That probably worked because whatever the mucus is made of is a solute for THC, but water isn't. I can see mucus working but idk about water.
 
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