duB1 K'noobie
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Hello, I'm a patient in Cali trying to refine my medicine to elicit more specific medicinal effects to treat my specific conditions. I find that no matter the grower or the strain, I can find no consistency in the effects of the medicine that I get. I've had indicas that wake me up and sativas that put me to sleep, hybrids that have made me work my ass off with one nug and put me to sleep with another nug from the same plant. Initially I thought that it was simply oxidation of the trichomes, cure and storage of buds, growing conditions, even small changes in my daily routine that created the variation in psychoactive effects. Usually I see similar effects across buds harvested at the same time and stored together, although not always the case. I thought that there would never be a way to create specific effects in an organic medicine, but one day my belief was shattered.
We had a collective here called CARE Collective. The owner/manager (Who created the Atom Smasher and helped spread bubble bags in the Greater Los Angeles area) seemed to have an answer for me, but the collective was subsequently closed down and I have not been able to find any mention of his theories anywhere else. Hap was apparently doing experimentation on what using standardized trichome sizes in your hash does as far as effect. It seems that he found a way to selectively separate trichomes of different sizes so that all the 120 micron sized particles were in one batch and all the 110's in another, all the way down to 25 microns. The hash he produced seemed to have had specific psychoactive effects based on the particle size.
The smallest standardized trichomes seemed to elicit an effect approaching anxiety without sleepiness or headache. As I tried the hash at slightly larger sizes I found that it made me alert and want to work but without the anxiety, sleepiness, or headaches. He told me that larger sizes ranged in effect from producing headaches to sleepiness to that faded but alert feeling that is characteristic of some well-grown OG and Bubba strains. I questioned him on his separation and extraction methods. While he was tight-lipped (appreciable considering how fast his atom smasher design was stolen by competitors), mention of a wet sifting using micron screens piqued his attention and he told me that it was close to the trichome standardization method he had developed. Has anyone else heard of this method of trichome treatment or experienced different standardizations of trichome sizes? Was he feeding me a line? It would seem to me that trichome heads at various stages of oxidation and physical development might contribute to differing psychoactive effects--so it seems plausible and my experience was real enough, but my wet sifter design requires an appreciable investment so I want to see if anyone else has heard of this or experimented with it. I would rather get my medicine through Hap again considering the work he put into the research, but I have heard nothing on him or CARE for a year or two. Any help or advice from the forum wizards would be appreciated.
We had a collective here called CARE Collective. The owner/manager (Who created the Atom Smasher and helped spread bubble bags in the Greater Los Angeles area) seemed to have an answer for me, but the collective was subsequently closed down and I have not been able to find any mention of his theories anywhere else. Hap was apparently doing experimentation on what using standardized trichome sizes in your hash does as far as effect. It seems that he found a way to selectively separate trichomes of different sizes so that all the 120 micron sized particles were in one batch and all the 110's in another, all the way down to 25 microns. The hash he produced seemed to have had specific psychoactive effects based on the particle size.
The smallest standardized trichomes seemed to elicit an effect approaching anxiety without sleepiness or headache. As I tried the hash at slightly larger sizes I found that it made me alert and want to work but without the anxiety, sleepiness, or headaches. He told me that larger sizes ranged in effect from producing headaches to sleepiness to that faded but alert feeling that is characteristic of some well-grown OG and Bubba strains. I questioned him on his separation and extraction methods. While he was tight-lipped (appreciable considering how fast his atom smasher design was stolen by competitors), mention of a wet sifting using micron screens piqued his attention and he told me that it was close to the trichome standardization method he had developed. Has anyone else heard of this method of trichome treatment or experienced different standardizations of trichome sizes? Was he feeding me a line? It would seem to me that trichome heads at various stages of oxidation and physical development might contribute to differing psychoactive effects--so it seems plausible and my experience was real enough, but my wet sifter design requires an appreciable investment so I want to see if anyone else has heard of this or experimented with it. I would rather get my medicine through Hap again considering the work he put into the research, but I have heard nothing on him or CARE for a year or two. Any help or advice from the forum wizards would be appreciated.