Extracting THC Oil from Marijuana

THC oil is a very potent form of marijuana that is made by extracting essential ‘THC’ oils from different parts of the marijuana plant. The result of this extraction is a dark, oily liquid that has 70%+ pure THC, which will get you baked from just a little bit.

It is easy to extract while using easy to find materials and just a little time, and it has several advantages to smoking your marijuana normally:

• No hot, harsh smoke to bother your lungs
• No tar that stains your teeth and fingers
• Very little smell
• Five times as much THC enters your bloodstream
• Get more highs out of it compared to what you spend on regular marijuana
• No carcinogens to give you cancer

Materials Need for THC Oil Extraction:

• A glass jar that has a watertight lid (widemouth mason jars work really good)
• A metal measuring cup with handle, around a 2 cup capacity is recommended
• Bottle of 190 proof grain alcohol, like Everclear
• Any kind of marijuana and any quality, you can use anything from a gram up to a couple of ounces
• A coffee filter or a 1′ x 1′ piece of sturdy cloth that you can use for straining
• An eye dropper bottle (something like a bottle for contact lenses would work great)
• Electric stove and overhead fan

Extracting The THC Oil From Your Marijuana

1. Chop up or grind the weed and buds until it looks like grass clipping AKA finely ground.
2. Remove any seeds, because they have their own oils that we don’t want to extract.
3. Dump your grass clipping into your mason jar.
4. Pour in just enough of your grain alcohol until the marijuana clippings can float freely in the mixture.
5. Put the lid tightly on the mason jar and shake the jar a few times.
6. Let your alcoholic marijuana mixture sit for a couple of hours, shaking it every once in awhile. The mixture should have a dark green color and when it is shaken should form oily bubbles on top of the liquid.
7. Place your coffee filter or cloth over your metal container and press it down to form a filter in the metal cup.
8. Pour your marijuana mixture into the coffee filter that’s in the metal cup, making sure you get the majority of the marijuana out of the jar.
9. Picking up the cloth by the corners and bringing them in squeeze the cloth and marijuana to get as much of the liquid out of the marijuana clump as possible into your metal cup.
10. Go back to step 1-9 and perform them again with your left over marijuana so that way you can get as much THC as possible from it.
11. Now, take your metal cup and put it on your electric stove (make sure it is an electric stove as a gas stove is dangerous to use with alcohol).
12. Turn on the exhaust fan to remove excess vapors from the alcoholic marijuana mixture and turn the burner on low.
13. Keeping a close eye on your alcoholic marijuana mixture make sure it only boils slightly and never put the the burner settings above medium low. Cook the mixture until it is slightly thick. It may take a little while.
14. When the marijuana mixture thickens and darkens remove it from the burner. Try not to let it get too thick or it becomes hard to work with, if you do by accident make it too thick add a little bit of grain alcohol to the mixture and swirl it around until it thins out.
15. Let the marijuana mixture in the metal cup cool down to room temperature.
16. Pour your mixture in the eye dropper bottle. Its ok to have some grain alcohol left in the mixture so you can work with it, it will not affect the potency of the oil or the smoke.

Note: If you don’t have an electric stove do NOT use a gas stove to cook the alcohol. Alcohol is extremely flammable and adding a gas stove to the mix is a dangerous concoction. You can still make your THC oil without using a stove, but you will need to put the mixture in the metal cup somewhere it won’t be disturbed and you’ll have to wait for the alcohol to evaporate. This may take days.

Smoking Your THC Oil

• You can put a drop or two in a cigarette, let it dry, and smoke it up, you can’t smell it and you can get high stealthily in public places where it only looks like your smoking a cigarette, perfect for a smoker on the go.
• You can also use aluminum foil, a straw or pen tube, and a lighter to smoke the THC oil. First, make a bowl out of the aluminum foil. Drop a drops of the THC oil into your aluminum foil bowl and hold it about 4″ over the flame. Let the THC oil boil slightly. Once it turns a very dark brownish color and starts making crackling sounds, lower the aluminum foil bowl directly over the flame. Hold your straw or pen tube about 1″ over the cooked THC oil and inhale. There will be white smoke coming up from the oil, that is vaporized THC. You can feel the effects of the oil almost immediately. Enjoy!

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