I have a funny way about being funny
So yes I was joking as I did know that was the same plant. Anyhow it looks like things are good and like you said, back on track. Let the fun begin.
I thought of that but tons of folks on the internet seem to be good with high potency ethyl alcohol including SweetSue in her demo. And I know it evaporates but using a poisonous substance just makes me leary.
I know, I am not saying my fear is rational, lol. My olive oil method works really well so since this has turned into a gong show I think I will just stick with my olive method. I am still going to let the samples evaporate to see what I get out of curiosity.
I do have a couple of hotplates I could use in my garage so I may try it with iso but I don't have any iso and being in lockdown I won't be going shopping for a few weeks but I am curious if it will work so I may pick some up. I appreciate all the input guys.
It is encouraging you both use iso successfully. I will pick some up next time I shop. It is weird ethanol alcohol doesn't work for me extracting weed when so many claim it does all over the internet. Homer stikes again, D'oh.
In the old days when I smoked a lot of weed, I hardly drank at all myself but I find taking it orally just doesn't give the same euphoric effect so I drink moderately once a week now. I just don't want to put my worn-out lungs through constant smoking but I wish taking it orally gave me the same kick in the head smoking does. Part of the reason I wanted to try a tincture was I hoped but didn't really expect it would be more like smoking it. If I knew I didn't have long to live I would be smoking like a fiend, lol.
From the research I did, basically they say vaping marijuana might expose you to fewer toxic ingredients than smoking it, but it's far from harmless. Besides that I had bronchitis as a kid and besides being a millwright I was a welder and spent most of my career in dusty steel mills so along with smoking a lot of weed in my younger days my lungs are pretty worn out.
Yes, to each his own. Also for the last 30 years, I have had a recurring tickle in the back of my throat that makes me cough and I know it is from my days from smoking weed. Today I cut the lawn and when I was done it just wouldn’t go away and I had to take a throat lozenge. That has a lot to do with why I don’t want to get back into smoking. I am always clearing my throat and coughing because of that tickle and I know it’s from smoking. And no inappropriate jokes about the tickle in the back of my throat, LOL.
I actually distill my own alcohol and I considered rigging up some kind of recovery condenser but since I don’t seem to be extracting any oil with ethyl alcohol I don’t really see the point. I think I will try using rubbing alcohol like Penny and Celt suggests or I might just stick with olive oil. Thanks for the input anyways.
