I'm so glad you found something that's working for you Mayne! We have quite a ways to go before CBD is
legal, as the DEA said "drugs including CBD with THC content below 0.1% are now considered Schedule 5 drugs, as long as they have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." That was necessitated by the allowance of Epidiolex to be sold by prescription and is limited to drugs submitted for approval to the FDA. Still, it's a small step along a road we all look forward to traveling.
I got to Anslinger and faded but good article. I will continue to grow and make my own concentrates.
Too long a read for 7am!
Wow over 400 grams of high quality cbd??
Yes sir! Thanks Them
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Better article than the one I read on NPR the other day. Quoting random ER room doctor's recollections of 1st timers freaking out in the ER because of an edible. No statistics, just an article of random quotes that say "weeds bad". And one where some guy went to a dispensary for pain and he started with some moon rocks with 60% thc and had a bad day.
It's so tiring to read the same article over and over about people who get too high and end up in the ER. No mention of the fact that nothing bad happened to them in the end and there was no medical treatment needed. Unlike every. other. overdose that puts people in the hospital.
And likely many of them did not listen to or read the warnings. I gave a beginner one of my brownies. I told her to take a bite only.
Good advice Mr Sleepytime brownies!
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Monday update with loads to talk about, only some of which I'll get to now. Let me start with a family portrait so some of the new folks like
@Kitchenhawk can get an idea of what's growing:
Since that picture was taken, I thinned the Candidas (cuttings in water) and the Sour G, topped them all, and transplanted the Candida that was in the solo cup to a 1 gallon:
Tall and rooty! Here are three Candida clones yesterday (the top is on the left):
I'll be topping the upper growth as well on these once they recover from the thinning.
I made another batch of canna-butter yesterday for my dad's cookies so the MB machine was tied up for a while, but I wanted to get started on the Candida CBD oil. So I went with the jar in the oven method.
I ground up 44 grams of buds (post decarb weight), and 1 cup of EVOO didn't come close to covering it, so I had to go with two cups.
Here are the calculations for 44 grams of bud at 15% CBD and 1% THC (my rough estimates) in 2 cups of oil. I had the efficiency set at 80% since I was going with the oven, and it should be at 85% since most of the process is going to be in the MB machine, which is constantly grinding and mixing the buds and the oil:
The way to read the spreadsheet is to look at the box on the far right near the bottom with the "Dose ML" heading. It's estimating 0.74mg THC and 11.16mg CBD/ml oil.
Into the oven it went at 180º F. Since two cups is the minimum for the MB machine, when the butter was done and the machine was washed, I dumped the jar in and set it for 4 hours at 160ºF, for a total of 6 hours yesterday. I let it cool overnight and will give it another 8 hours today. I'm still looking for a lab to test it so see what the real numbers are and how close the spreadsheet gets to reality.
Still working on the skin salve and if I like the consistency of the stuff I put in the fridge this morning, I'll have the tutorial up on that tomorrow. I want to make sure the grams of beeswax/cup of coconut oil is correct before I post it.
We got rain Saturday night into Sunday morning but it cleared up around noon, so everything spent the better part of both days outside. Sunny today as well
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I hope you had a great weekend, and the week ahead looks bright and shiny
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