I am hoping that there might be a chemist in the house who can advise me as to whether or not my newly harvested stash will be safe to smoke, in the wake of a ridiculous error that I made.
I got to my guerilla grow site, spotted some mold, and decided to try for the first time the aspirin dissolved in water spray idea for mold preventon. Well, I foolishly did not research the dosage needed by going through the archives here at IC Mag, and I wound up using WAY too much aspirin in my spray bottle.
I found out too late that the dosage of aspirin should be no more than one tablet per gallon of water, after I had gone ahead and used TEN pills in HALF a gallon of water. When I returned to the grow site a couple of days later, that overly concetrated aspirin solution had cause a huge number of fan leaves to yellow.
Hoping to cut my losses I went ahead and harvested most of the buds, and they all looked healthy despite the yellowing fan leaves, that I hastily removed. Then, as my weed dried, I started to worry that I may have laced those buds with enough aspirin residue to harm my lungs, so I decided to ask here to see if anyone might have a better idea of how safe or otherwise these buds will be to smoke.
About four days elapsed between when I applied that concentrated aspirin solution, and when I harvested the buds, so I am hoping , with fingers and toes crossed, that perhaps the aspirin residue on the buds would have been broken down by the sun into harmless bye-products, or that such a chemical breakdown would occur during the drying process.
Anxious for a bit more clarification, I decided to seek opinions here in the IC Mag forum about whether my foolish mistake has rendered my entire harvest unfit for consumption, or if I can still smoke the stash with no ill effects.
The active ingredient of aspirin is ACETYL SALI-CYCLIC ACID, and the "acid" part of that name frightened the bejeebers out of me, with thoughts of that acid perhaps re-constituting itself in the moist interior of my lungs, with deadly results.
I sure would be grateful for any advice that can be offered on this subject, so I can decide whether to go ahead and try some of my harvest, or to play it safe and throw away the entire harvest from this year's considerable grow effort.
Obviously I would rather keep the stash, and have something to show for all the sweat and labor that it took to grow it, BUT, I will reluctantly throw it all away in a heart-beat if there is so much as a tiny risk that I would injure my lungs smoking aspirin residue on my buds.
Any advice to clear the uncertainty about this mistake of mine wouls be enormously appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I got to my guerilla grow site, spotted some mold, and decided to try for the first time the aspirin dissolved in water spray idea for mold preventon. Well, I foolishly did not research the dosage needed by going through the archives here at IC Mag, and I wound up using WAY too much aspirin in my spray bottle.
I found out too late that the dosage of aspirin should be no more than one tablet per gallon of water, after I had gone ahead and used TEN pills in HALF a gallon of water. When I returned to the grow site a couple of days later, that overly concetrated aspirin solution had cause a huge number of fan leaves to yellow.
Hoping to cut my losses I went ahead and harvested most of the buds, and they all looked healthy despite the yellowing fan leaves, that I hastily removed. Then, as my weed dried, I started to worry that I may have laced those buds with enough aspirin residue to harm my lungs, so I decided to ask here to see if anyone might have a better idea of how safe or otherwise these buds will be to smoke.
About four days elapsed between when I applied that concentrated aspirin solution, and when I harvested the buds, so I am hoping , with fingers and toes crossed, that perhaps the aspirin residue on the buds would have been broken down by the sun into harmless bye-products, or that such a chemical breakdown would occur during the drying process.
Anxious for a bit more clarification, I decided to seek opinions here in the IC Mag forum about whether my foolish mistake has rendered my entire harvest unfit for consumption, or if I can still smoke the stash with no ill effects.
The active ingredient of aspirin is ACETYL SALI-CYCLIC ACID, and the "acid" part of that name frightened the bejeebers out of me, with thoughts of that acid perhaps re-constituting itself in the moist interior of my lungs, with deadly results.
I sure would be grateful for any advice that can be offered on this subject, so I can decide whether to go ahead and try some of my harvest, or to play it safe and throw away the entire harvest from this year's considerable grow effort.
Obviously I would rather keep the stash, and have something to show for all the sweat and labor that it took to grow it, BUT, I will reluctantly throw it all away in a heart-beat if there is so much as a tiny risk that I would injure my lungs smoking aspirin residue on my buds.
Any advice to clear the uncertainty about this mistake of mine wouls be enormously appreciated. Thanks in advance.
