How to make Medical Cannabis Oil
Medical cannabis oil is different than cannabis infused oil for cooking edibles. It is highly potent and it can be dangerous to make as the process is highly flammable.
AVOID smoking, sparks, stove-tops, heat guns, and red hot heating elements. Set up a fan to blow fumes away from the pot, and set up in a well-ventilated area for whole process.
The following recipe calls for an ounce of cannabis buds and will make you about 3-4 grams of oil. Different treatments require different dosages, always inform your doctor first before starting the treatment.
Ingredients
1 Ounce dry Cannabis buds
500ml Solvent( grain alcohol/Everclear)
Directions
Place the dry buds in a plastic bucket
Crush the plant material using a stick of clean, untreated wood or any other similar device. Although the material will be damp, it will still be relatively easy to crush up because it is so dry.
Continue to crush the cannabis with the stick, while adding solvent until the plant material is completely covered and soaked. Remain stirring the mixture for about three minutes. As you do this, the THC is dissolved off the material into the solvent.
Pour the solvent oil mixture off the plant material into another bucket. At this point you have stripped the material of about 80% of its THC.
Second wash: again add solvent to the mixture and work for another three minutes to extract the remaining THC.
Pour this solvent oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was previously poured out.
Discard the twice washed plant material.
Pour the solvent oil mixture through a coffee filter into a clean container.
Boil the solvent off: a rice cooker will boil the solvent off nicely, and will hold over a half gallon of solvent mixture. CAUTION: avoid stove-tops, red hot elements, sparks, cigarettes, and open flames as the fumes can be extremely flammable.
Add solvent to rice cooker until it is about ¾ full and turn on HIGH heat. Make sure you are in a well-ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. Continue to add mixture to cooker as solvent evaporates until you have added it all to the cooker.
As the level in the rice cooker decreases for the last time, add a few drops of water (about 10 drops of water for a pound of dry material). This will help to release the solvent residue, and protect the oil from too much heat.
When there is about one inch of solvent-water mixture in the rice cooker, put on your oven mitts and pick the unit up and swirl the contents until the solvent has finished boiling off.
When the solvent has been boiled off, turn the cooker to LOW heat. At no point should the oil ever reach over 290˚ F or 140˚ C.
Keep your oven mitts on and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker. Gently pour the oil into a stainless steel container
Place the stainless steel container in a dehydrator, or put it on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile terpenes will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any surface activity on the oil, it is ready for use.
Suck the oil up in a plastic syringe, or in any other container you see fit. A syringe will make the oil easy to dispense. When the oil cools completely it should have the consistency of thick grease.
Making Dry Ice Hash First
will significantly reduce the expense for ethanol. Use a food grade bucket with a lid, add cannabis and chunks of dry-ice. Let sit for 10 minutes, then shake for 10 minutes. Let it sit and then shake. Let it sit and then open it and check the consistency.
The dry ice chunks will freeze the material, allowing the shaking to break down the cannabis physically with the chunks of dry-ice. Once the cannabis is reduced to a powder (you'll need about 1/3rd the normal amount of ethanol) you can add ethanol and do a quick 30 second wash.
Since the plant is powdered, everything is extracted. Since the extraction is quick, less wax is pulled from the plant material and quality is increased. :)
Cool Stuff! :D
This is an interesting concept that I have never considered in the "traditional RSO" process I think I may try this in the future and experiment and compare to my cold washed and winterized RSO? Yes my cold washed and winterized oil is not the fastest easiest most economical method but it is the strongest best tasting dabbable RSO I have tried but I am interested in trying your Co2 hash method... It's what I used to help cure 2 different stage 3 lymphoma cancers in two years time....Potent stuff, I'll do a post on my method soon as. Excellent initial OP and excellent comment and concept "thecleangame". Let's all further build this cannabis community here on steemit.
-Namaste
Cannabizzle :)
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You'll find it to be similar in quality to your cold wash, about 1-2 grades lower. This is much easier for people who don't have access to do cold processing.
I'll be pleased to hear your take on the quality and ease of use differences. :D
Thank You
I use a similar method. Instead of the rice cooker I use a Pyrex pie plate and a skillet full of water to make like a double boiler.