I find it interesting that EVOO is only a 75% extraction efficiency, and yet I believe Olive oil will hold the highest concentrations of cannabinoids.
Sue . The data shows more about the lipid density and the ability to,hold/
Thc
Cb x, x= all cannabinoids.
There are no other none cannabinoids. Terpine the nice smell doesn't count. I'll tell you how to extract the terpine..they are not 'special''imho. They are terpine...always were ...always will be.
I was under the impression that infused oils were 85% efficient. It hadn't occured to me that there could be such a difference between coconut and olive. The olive is working just fine with my CBD Critical Cure, but now you have me thinking about all that potentially got left behind.
Olive is wonderful.. coconut oil extracts more of the cannainoids than other oil. .sue. Period..
Marc, do you know if agitation during the extraction process with EVOO would increase the number of cannabinoids picked up?
Sue you have taught me agitation is never good...lol
Sue , all the decarb aside.
Extraction I merely the sliding off of the trichomes from the pointy leaf mounts.
Most anything takes some off. Even squeezing with your fingers. Smell and feel it right. You can see with micro camera... will show more 100 ; 1 examples..but you can see with 8 to one loop. Heating the oil will melt,the wax mount on the leaves more often. The data for,the 75% of evoo was for 212 f oil extracts. All oil was double boil protected, or crock pot with oil/water method.
They paid for ' copond analysis and published the efficiency ' so at less than 212 oil , you get less than 75 %. Agitation aside.
It's the heat, and somewhat the boiling action to 'stir' things that does extract. Now stirring a bit. It moves the 'sluury' Around so all material gets same deal..imho.. it not , can't be , action that causes 'extraction, sue.. su it's not a mechanical extraction method.. you can do,that. But not in oil. Oil to,thick.. no 'waves' in oil..sue.... I like the variations. ..just need physics checks..
They've just begun studying the acid cannabinoids, and they're finding them to be superior medicine for just about anything that has an inflammatory response. I believe they're also finding that they do many of the same things their natural counterparts would do, but using different receptors. New science. We have a couple more years before real understanding is developed.
When I make my brownies I was decarbing at 235 F for 45 minutes, adding the crumbled buds to the oil and going another 45 minutes before adding that oil and plant material to my brownie mix and cooking for the 35 minutes at 350 F. I'll tell you Marc, my brownies would be too potent for most people.
Usually others eat them in small bites. Me? I was consuming approx 75 mg of THC per dose and functioning just fine. I'm certain I have my personal method all worked out.
Sue
Ok extraction method aside..
Your decarb sounds spot on for most uses..
230/235 leaf temperature ......update here. ......
At 40-50 minutes safely gets most thc for least damage. Ie lowest temp/ shortest time.
Now if that oil is cooked. So oil never ever gets to 290 F. Theoretical you have max cannabinoids.
If you make brownies, and you cook more than 30-35 minutes, at 375/360 oven, measured. Then the thc/batter all reaches 300 f at same time. By 36 minutes. By 7 minutes later. Or so. Any thcA led is converted, thc turns to cBN, from cBN, it decays.. not sure time.
So baking brownies is a race to,the death for thc. When correct that would be the 'best medio-recro-soxio use of weed,there is.. lol
Ie kick asz brownies. If you sick oh you feel better. If your better. You feel .. elevated.. or what ever you do with the energy. Ingesting the weed . Imparts it's energy, the plant turned sun into sugar, using hydrogen for fuel, then it used sugar to mAke higher energy thcA. Thankfully. We consume, digest and get the stored energy into us. It goes every where. Imho.. it's a CATALYST. you can take the energy where you please, and where you can. Meditation is a examples. Music art language are others. ..
Viewed as catalyst .. it means treatment is not just passively consuming right dose, of right mixture, right etc.. all,that grease your skids, lubes the joints, activates your energy engine, and allows for extremely good...whate ver sessions.. IMHO from observations.
75 mg dose are huge for me , now sue. My chcoclate had exactly 860 mg thc and 140 mg Cbd. Damn label said so.lol
It was cannabotix . Rso syringe oil.its pricey. It's not mine. I use it as a reference to gauge my material. So I call it 1000 mg total cannainoids. Added to coco oil for first expansions, then 10 oz baker chcoclate....etc.. receive on request..lol.. at end had 30 round pieces. So without a computer , 33 mg per bite sized.. used to eat these every 3 hours. For months. Today one , whole one.. makes 1-3 hours ..disappear. Then I feel pain free for. Another few hours more. I should take half. So,I'm dosing 15-40 mg / total daily ... 50 mg by mouth.
Smoke some most days too. Cold filter stuck to side qwet.
Below 0 f.tip on side.all water crap freezes in a day. In 2 days hard freeze..
I love all this information you're dropping here.
Hmmm....THCa gets stored in the liver and then gets converted to THC by some internal mechanism? Do you have a link to this information?
God, you have to a blast to live with Marc. 
Another option to draw on. Sounds like that worked better than you thought it would. 
