AW FUCK, i had been writting for like 30 min and my fuckin browser crashed. Im going to speedily run through what I was saying (-the usefull explenations, if you have questions ask)
1) I do have access to chemistry lab tools but the chemicals and sheer danger in our labs means they are watched over pretty closely. getting caught = expulsion + criminal charges for sure. Weeds not worth that, or rather there are just much easier ways.
2) Cannibinoids definately have positive and beneficial affects. no argument there. The debate is if thc degrades
3) To determine if thc degrades to ANYTHING other than THC youll need to: extract it, isolate it, run an IR scan (infrared spectrum analysis). Apply heat / cook (put it through the conditions that it supposedly degrades at) and run another IR scan. If it only activates and doesnt degrade, we will see an almost identical IR with no activity in the carboxyl region. If it degrades into something entirely new, we will have an all new IR. We can find the chemical formula using the new IR, and compare that to lists of known canninoids to see if any of them have the same make-up. If they do, theres youre awnser. I really am shocked no one has done this. Isolation the THC is probably the hardest part.
4) You can decarb using a base as well if you choose, or liquer, or fat without heat. BUT each extracts in its own way, so be carefull. For example, a base will not extract thc, but rather the carboxyl group.
5) when you use a base to decarb thc, you are left with a AQ salt. I find this interesting because it occured to me just now that if you are creating a salt, it will be soluble in water and insoluble in butter. So check this out:
put weed. 200ml butter and 200ml water together (maybe a dash of ethanol) and add NAOH or any other strong base
mix heated for several hours to decarb
when this is done the weed will be useless, i would never use weed that had been soaked in a strong base such as NAOH but stick with me
seperate the butter
evaporate the water
what are you left with?
SALTS!! Now listen here, those salts are not pychoactive any may be poisonous... so dont eat it. BUT, now that you have this salt, you can determine the percentage of that salt that used to be carboxylic acid. Once ALLL THIS is done, youll know how much carboxylic acid (in terms of weight) was removed from solution. sounds kind of dumb, except that the amount of salt would DIRECTLY correspond to how much thc/cannibinoid was in the bud. In other words, this is a 4 hour cheap way to waist an 8th of bud if you ever want to find out JUST how good your shit really is.
6) the decarb method i described above has promise in actual cooking, its just that a weaker non-poisonous base needs to be found first. Ill keep my eye out.
7) I decided i wanted to look at the thc molecule to kind of get a visual for it in my head, when i realized i cant find a single picture online of non-carbed THC. Can anyone find me a molecular representation of inactive THC? Somewhere in the molecule will be 2 Oxygens linked to the SAME carbon, one will be a double bond the other a single. I cant find this in ANY representation. Thats frustrating.
I dont mind being called a stoner at all. In fact i take minor pride in being a stoner. I hate being called a pot-head though. So we're good.
9) Just found a THC molecule depicting the carb. Its attached to the benzene ring. But ultimately what i really discovered is no one can even agree on the overall layout of THC. there is one form that seems to have dominated the interenet and tatoos, but there are many other depictions (using the same formula) out there. I think that above all this proves that as of today no one really knows shit about the chemical workings of thc yet. Im worried that we found ways to work with it and THEN tried to explain why those methods work in order to create what we "THINK" is the thc molecule, if this is true we could be missing out on some amazing things by not... well... playing with thc in a lab.
10) taking a break from weed. lol. It seems my body has forced that upon me. Its wierd, I DONT smoke a ton, but I do smoke everyday (i guess for some thats a ton) and its never really had much affect on me (other than I get high) but yesterday I woke up and my pipe was sitting on the night table and there was some ash on a paper towel from the night before (typical stoner stuff, nothing out of the ordinary) but when the smell of the res and pipe hit me, i started puking profusely. And now I cant go near burnt pot (or just any smelly ash) without getting really sick to my stomach, it came from nowhere. I had to bag my bong and pipe completely. So im taking that as a sign to quit for a while, and when i come back ill probably stick with the vape. I only smoke maybe a gram a day though, i just dont know where that came from. None of my friends have had the same issue.
