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In reply to the discussion: Marijuana Compounds Can Kill Some Cancer Cells: Study [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)43. The Cannaoil......
...I'm referring to is also very potent but it is achieved by increasing the cannabinoids potency levels via heating. Simpson oil also uses heat but only after a solvent has been used to extract the cannabinoids. The solvent is then evaporated with high heating (no higher than 290 degrees) leaving only the tar-like oil residue. One only needs small amounts using this approach which is another reason for it's appeal. Simpson Oil is a highly concentrated form of Cannaoil.
The reason oil or fat is used (see Watermelon's recipes) is because THCs are fat-soluble. And it is the heating that increases the potency as well as allows for the release or the ''decarboxylating'' of the cannabinoids. This heating process becomes the focus of concern when someone (trying to make Rick Simpson Oil) who doesn't not know what they're doing, exposes the solvent admixture to too much heat or open flame, and causes an explosion/fire. In any event, any heating of the cannabinoids above 290 degrees renders the whole mess inert crap.
An alternate way is to use a slow cooker to slowly extract the THC and infuse the oil one is using with the cannabinoids. A finely ground up cannabis is heated at around 225-250 degrees for 4-5 hours. Some patients prefer making tinctures or Simpson Oil, but one can avoid the heating steps altogether by allowing the solvent to escape naturally (slowly) through air evaporation. And some cannabis patients (the explosion-averse) do just this by keeping some resin is various stages of air-evaporation completion. This way takes around 3-4 weeks for the evaporation to take place, but heating it is still possible if one wishes to increase the potency.
There are also other solvents which can be used to extract cannabinoids that are nonflammable. DMSO is a solvent which extracts cannabinoids quite easily. This mixture can be added to pure aloe vera gel to achieve a Cannabis Gel which is excellent for relieving pain quite quickly. With the use of DMSO one doesn't require such a high cannabis potency level because the DMSO allows for the direct penetration the cannabinoids through all muscle tissue in the body. And the DMSO itself relieves pain as well as being highly anti-oxidant and causing blood vessels to dilate thereby improving blood circulation.
If one lives in a forward-thinking state or city with medical-cannabis laws, one may eat it. Literally. In point of fact, juicing, eating, and cooking with cannabis is one of the best ways to consume the non-psychoactive CBDs in cannabis (see the video ''LEAF'' above). CBDs are generally in smaller quantities on the cannabis plant compared to the THC. Unless it is one of the newer strains that has been created specifically to generate higher levels of CBDs.
CBDs don't get you high. They get you well.
Take care.
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It's amazing how demonizaition of such a beneficial plant has curtailed science;
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#32
Here's a good link to some U.S. studies, backed by the National Institute on Health..
Ghost in the Machine
Oct 2013
#2
I'm so glad your late husband was able to acquire it because it takes away the pain
pacalo
Oct 2013
#21