[JRace]

As you can see results vary per person. Unsure why I never had good success, and I cam across a better method (cannabrex) for my needs (medicating consistently)

I advise starting with a small batch, follow directions closely.
Get a candy thermometer to monitor temps.

Your trimmings should work fine.

[boroboro]

A lot of these threads seems to show the effects varying widely between different people. I think tinctures are great, but that's just me. I can't see getting 30 doses per 1/8 ounce, though, and I'm a lightweight.

For me it's about 60-80 solid doses for 1.5 ounces of decent bud simmered in 750 ml Bacardi 151 rum.

[DrugleyDoRite]

Bacardi 151 is a little weak. If you can get your hands on some 94% from Quebec or some 94% Everclear from the US, you will notice much better results.

I normally only take 2 ml at one time. I have great results that last 4 hours with this. The more you take, the higher you get and the longer it lasts.

I also recommend using bud. I have used shake with minimal results. Bud is best. Try 5 gr of bud and 3 oz of 94% and you will not be disappointed.

[grumio]

Well, I live in California, where you can't easily get 190 ethanol, so I first made tincture with 151 everclear, & it worked great. I bought a 1.75 liter bottle of 190 everclear in North Carolina, mailed it home & used it for tincture. The difference in potency was too small to justify the extra expense. If I had a choice I'd use 190, but 151 works fine (I've never used rum).

My recipe, briefly: 4 grams herb, ground & toasted, simmered in 3 oz alc (in a water bath) for ~20 minutes, strain/press, simmer the plant matter again in 1 oz alc for ~10 minutes, strain, press, combine. This should give about a 50% reduction, nice & neat - 4 grams herb, 4 oz alc = 2 oz tincture, about 60 ml.

2-3 ml is just great for me.

Thanks much for posing this recipe. I have a few cans of green that is older and dried out and I figured this would be a good experiment for a bad weather day. I went to the store today and couldn't find 151. I was just about to bail on the idea when I spotted a bottle of Everclear - 95% alcohol! On the label it has two warnings:

CAUTION!!
EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE
handle with care

WARNING!!
OVERCONSUMPTION
MAY ENDANGER
YOUR HEALTH

No shit. Just taking a whiff of it was enough to curl my nose hairs.

I followed the recipe to a T. The only snags I had were:

1. The mixture was boiling pretty fiercely but my therm read 160. The therm is one of those metal spike things meant to measure internal meat temps, so maybe it just wasn't the right kind of therm for the purpose.

2. I didn't really think ahead what I'd do when the mix was ready to strain. I poured it into a coffee filter, put on an exam glove on and squeezed the filter till it was dry. Found a nearly empty echinacea bottle and funneled the mix into there.

I put a couple drops under my tongue just because I am a "push the red button that is labeled don't press this button" kinda guy. I kept it there for .5seconds and I think that spot will probably take a few days to feel normal again. Lesson learned. I had a dropperful with a little water 45 mins ago and I am feeling "liftoff"

Smoking is fun and all, but this is damn convenient for occasions where it just isn't cool to puff out.

Mmm - coming on stronger now. Oh yes - just the right dose. Off to enjoy it...

[jaysplifferton]

I'm a little confused. I'm interested in making some tincture, but I'm curious about the quantity. Is it really an 1/8 of weed to 2 oz of liquor? that's like a shot of booze, right? how could you fit so much weed into a shot glass even ground up? It seems like you'd need more liquor, right? IDK I'm no scientist and I certainly don't have experience with this, but would it be possible to make more of it or "water" it down a little bit, or would that be bad for the product?

This is a cool post. I think I'll try this soon.

[grumio]

Keep in mind that a fair amount of the alcohol will evaporate off during the boiling. I do 4 grams of ground & toasted bud in 3 oz alc for 20 minutes, strain, press, then boil it again in another ounce of alcohol for 10 minutes, strain, press, mix the two washes. It yields ~2 oz finished tincture but (obviously) uses 4 oz alcohol.

You could dilute it with water after making the tincture. You want as little water as possible in the solvent, because water doesn't dissolve THC but does dissolve other things which aren't psychoactive and don't taste good. That's why you want to use the highest proof alcohol you can get.

I can't think of any reason to dilute it, though.

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

After reading this thread, I just had to try and make some of this. I closely followed the recipe posted by DrugelyDoRite, using 3 grams of bud and 2 oz's of Ever Clear 190 proof.......

Last night, before dinner, I took a dose of .75 ml, just to be on the safe side.
I was thoroughly numb from my head to my toes by desert time........

This morning, I took 1.25 ml before my morning coffee.........

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It's still early day's for me, along my tincture path, but I could defintely get use to this........:wink:

[swishaman]

We did this last night using 2g's blueberry and 1g of grapefruit. We used 190 proof Everclear.


Well... we ground up the bud on a glass pie dish, threw it in a preheated 325f oven. Baked for 4.5 - 5 mins. Put it into a small jar, added 2 oz everclear. Simmered everclear between 155-170f for 15~ minutes. Had to stop the simmering because we had already simmered down to a little over 0.7oz alcohol.

And then.... we let it cool down, took 1ml each in about 3 oz of water. waited and waited.
it somewhat kicked in, but not to any type of serious high? It was just a very light buzz, and smoking a bowl of the same type of bud easily overpowered it.

Decided to take some sublingually... Holy shit is this stuff nasty.

Waited more....still nothing significant...

So, I don't know... We messed up somehow, but I don't know how or when? Maybe we didn't bake it long enough? IDK...I'm kind of scared to try it again.... as this run cost me 3 g's of very good bud :|


*depressed*

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

OK.....I broke down and made another batch of Green Dragon. This time, I modified the way I made it. First off all, I grated up 6 grams of bud - 3 grams of GrapePunch, and 3 grams of LifeSaver - using a small food processor. It was like fine powder when I was done. Make sure the weed lies flat, not in a pile, when it's on the surface you bake it on. Second, I baked the weed @ 200 F for 20 minutes on a single sheet of aluminum wrap that was placed on top of a oven stone. Not satisfied with the way it looked, I then turned up the temp to 325 F for another 10 minutes. After that, the weed was steaming/trying to vaporize, and had turned color from green to light brown.

Third, I pre-heated everything on the stove so that water was already boiling and ready to go, when I placed the weed in my pyrex measuring cup with 3 oz. of everclear.

6 Grams of finely chopped pre-baked bud........... into 3 oz. of Everclear....stir occasionally.

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I then boiled my brew @ exactly 170 F until I was left with half, about 1.75 oz. This took about 33 minutes for me to complete. I was much more precise in keeping my boiling temperature @ exactly 170 F this time, and it seems to have made a difference. It looks brown in the bottle, and turns green when you mix it in a shot glass with some water.

I took 2, one ml. squirts - 2 ml. total - last night and it kicked my ass............when I woke up on the couch hours later, I could barely drag my ass to bed. It gives you both a very strong body and head high that is difficult to achieve smoking and/or vaping. This batch is very powerful...........and I would highly recommed it for those wanting an alternative to smoking.

My girl friend has a shoulder injury with scar tissue that gives her pain and discomfort every night when she sleeps. She took 1.25 ml. last night after dinner, and slept like a baby all night long pain free.