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I made some Canna Oil this weekend, cooked up some brownies and went to a rock concert for a few hours.
That's right, I put the TL
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So, yeah, I made some oil. After testing a couple possibilities for relatively low and slow heating I had two viable options. One at 165F and one at 230F. I chose the 230F version and got busy.
My ingredients:
- 10g of Northern Lights flowers - ground
- 0.5 tsp grinder kief
- 0.5 cup Olive oil
- 1 Pinch of Soy Leichten
I mixed all of the ingredients together in a small crock pot, brought it up to temp, and simmered the concoction for 2.5 hours. I have some heavy duty ventilation in my lab so smell wasn't really an issue while cooking in the crock pot. Direct vent outside and a breezy day was perfect.
After removing from heat and allowing everything to cool for about 30 minutes I strained the oil through a coffee filter. Straining was taking longer than I liked (pressed for time before the evenings outing) so I wrapped the grounds/filter in some cheesecloth and squeezed the piss out of it.
Squeezing was fast but messy and I got a lot of oil on my hand. I began to feel a little giggly about an hour later. Either the act of making the oil or getting it on my skin made me a little giddy.
Back to straining/squeezing... The cooked Cannabis and Olive oil slurry smelled unpleasant. Gone was the nice floral Cannabis smell and in it's place was a roasted/toasted garbage smelling oil with heavy sediment sitting at the bottom of the pot.
Everything was moving along covertly until I carried the completed 1/3 cup of Canna Oil mixture out of the lab, through the house, and up to the kitchen where I had the remaining cooking ingredients prepped. That cleared out the house. The wife took the cats and new dog and went outside not to return until all cooking was done. She could not take the smell. She will tolerate the fragrant late night cabinet and grow maintenance but the mid day cooking was too much. Fair enough.
Moving on... I finished up the cooking and brought the resulting brownies outside to cool. That was my quiet thank you gesture to my wife for putting up with the experiment. That and I made dinner while she ran errands
Go team!
About an hour before the concert a friend and I put our feet up in the garage, enjoyed some brownies and vaped a couple grams Northern Lights. I am experienced with Cannabis. He is not. I tried my best to explain what, why and how I cooked the brownies to give an idea about contents, possible effects and dosing cautions. I consumed a little over 1/3 of the pan of brownies. He had a little under 1/4. About 1/2 the pan between the two of us.
Ninety minutes later while waiting for the concert to begin I could feel the brownies kicking in. I sat comfortably in my nosebleed seat and began analysing how I felt and looked over at my friend. He was feeling some paranoia exacerbated by the steep venue seating. Perhaps too much brownie or vape. In hind sight I should have had him stick to one or the other.
After another 30 minutes (2 hours total so far) I think I hit my plateau. I was near the end of the vape dose but the brownie dose lingered. It felt different. I could feel an unfamiliar physical effect compared to vapor/smoke. My gums and lips tingled with a narcotic buzz sensation. I didn't feel high. I felt relaxed. I was content to sit there and simply take it all in.
The concert was pretty good. The musicians played. The singer sang. There were a lot of cameras recording the show. Presumably for a music video, movie or promotional material. Sound quality and production value were much higher than that of a typical rock show which was curious.
I'm not sure if I experienced a come down from the brownies. I felt tired but conversational on the way home from the show. My friend decided to forgo driving home and spent the night (very good choice buddy). After getting everybody situated and tucked in for the night I hit my bedtime vape dose and crawled into bed at around 2am myself.
I woke up Monday morning loathing another day at the office. Back to my usual self.
A wake n vape did not sound appealing. Other than that all systems are nominal. I want to sample another serving of brownies in a more controlled home environment. Between work and life it's going to be difficult to carve out a large enough chunk of time for additional tests.
To be continued...
/Obi
