Rascality Afoot
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So I recently made some oil from 95% Ethanol/ 5% iso. It's not the usual denatured alcohol, I checked the MSDS. I figured it'd be much easier to purge the 5% iso than the 4% water/ whatever else in grain alcohol.
I made some crude 3-bag bubble hash, and used the inferior bottom bag hash as material to make the oil. I dried the hash out completely, and then mixed it with the frozen 95/5 alcohol. I let it soak in the freezer overnight, occasionally shaking the jar.
~Now, I feel the need to mention that I would normally never wash for this long, but it's bubble hash, so I'm not to worried about chlorophyll and other impurities.~
After soaking overnight, I filtered the solution through a coffee filter, evaporated slowly in a bath of warm, not hot, water, then let it sit in the pyrex overnight until it was fairly solid at low temperatures.
After waiting a few more days, the oil is a reddish, hard, and almost solid in a warm room. Very nice, almost shatter-like texture that is very easy to work with. I excitedly sampled my new oil, trying an amount that would normally make me almost uncomfortably high, and...
...nothing...
It seems almost inactive. I'm completely confused. I'm certainly no stranger to making all kinds of extracts, albeit this is the first time I've used ethanol. As far as I can figure, there is absolutely no reason that it should be inactive. Like, even if I did everything as wrong as possible, as long as I run bubble hash through alcahol, and then evaporate it off, it would be a potent product.
Has anyone ever encountered this?
I made some crude 3-bag bubble hash, and used the inferior bottom bag hash as material to make the oil. I dried the hash out completely, and then mixed it with the frozen 95/5 alcohol. I let it soak in the freezer overnight, occasionally shaking the jar.
~Now, I feel the need to mention that I would normally never wash for this long, but it's bubble hash, so I'm not to worried about chlorophyll and other impurities.~
After soaking overnight, I filtered the solution through a coffee filter, evaporated slowly in a bath of warm, not hot, water, then let it sit in the pyrex overnight until it was fairly solid at low temperatures.
After waiting a few more days, the oil is a reddish, hard, and almost solid in a warm room. Very nice, almost shatter-like texture that is very easy to work with. I excitedly sampled my new oil, trying an amount that would normally make me almost uncomfortably high, and...
...nothing...
It seems almost inactive. I'm completely confused. I'm certainly no stranger to making all kinds of extracts, albeit this is the first time I've used ethanol. As far as I can figure, there is absolutely no reason that it should be inactive. Like, even if I did everything as wrong as possible, as long as I run bubble hash through alcahol, and then evaporate it off, it would be a potent product.
Has anyone ever encountered this?