Oil has always been illegal but many shops sell ice hash. Would somebody care to post definitions of the various types of hash and oil and where the line is drawn?
My understanding is that hash is made up of pressed trichomes and so is different to grass in that most of the vegetative material is removed. Presumably, using solvents extracts just the oily cannabinoids, leaving even less vegetative material.
Cannabutter is an attempt at extracting cannabinoids for cooking but, I assume, less efficient than using solvents. Vapourisation is another means of extracting cannabinoids and inhaling them. How do you think this compares?
Definitions of Hashish, Oil, Concentrates, etc. please
Re: Definitions of Hashish, Oil, Concentrates, etc. please
Oil refers to extracting, via means of a solvent, the THC and other relevant desirable cannabinoids from any source - it can be from leaves and stems, shake, bud, or all of the aforementioned. This is a chemical separation method - the cannabinoids are dissolved into a solvent, which is separated from the plant material, and after the solvent evaporates, one is left with oil. This is often referred to as BHO (Butane Hash/Honey Oil) but a number of different solvents can be used with satisfactory results.
Hash, essentially, consists in its purest form of pressed trichomes, but I think in most areas they may have their own historical "recipe" to give the hash a certain consistency, taste, etc. It is also quite hard to avoid getting at least a little bit of non-trichome plant material in there, but ideally, that should be what most of the hash is. The normal methods are via sieving (like the Moroccans) or hand-rubbing (like Nepalese). So-called ice, water or bubble hash is essentially all the same stuff - the process involves putting the plant material in freezing cold water, which makes the trichomes break off from the plant quite easily, and the plant material can be separated. This method doesn't involve chemical reactions and is more of a mechanical way to separate the trichomes.
As for cannabutter - I'm not sure as to exactly how much of the THC is absorbed while cooking, but if you do it properly, it should be most of it. In that sense, since you're going to be eating all of it, the bioavailability COULD be higher than with smoking (you won't inhale all the smoke, and even if you do, your lungs will only utilize part of that volume), but I'm not really sure. Anyway, ever since I first tried making cannabutter with hash, I'm never going back to weed again. Instead of hours of soaking your bud in fat, you melt some butter, crumble some hash into it, give it a quick stir and you're done - all ready to cook (and it tastes lovely too, a nice spicy hint to chocolate chip cookies for example - mmm-mm-mm!).
I would suspect vaporizing is subject to the same limitations as smoking in terms of the lungs not being able to absorb all the smoke coming in, but vaporizer... vapor will probably contain a lot more THC per unit volume than smoke, there being a lot of other unpleasant shit in smoke.
Hash, essentially, consists in its purest form of pressed trichomes, but I think in most areas they may have their own historical "recipe" to give the hash a certain consistency, taste, etc. It is also quite hard to avoid getting at least a little bit of non-trichome plant material in there, but ideally, that should be what most of the hash is. The normal methods are via sieving (like the Moroccans) or hand-rubbing (like Nepalese). So-called ice, water or bubble hash is essentially all the same stuff - the process involves putting the plant material in freezing cold water, which makes the trichomes break off from the plant quite easily, and the plant material can be separated. This method doesn't involve chemical reactions and is more of a mechanical way to separate the trichomes.
As for cannabutter - I'm not sure as to exactly how much of the THC is absorbed while cooking, but if you do it properly, it should be most of it. In that sense, since you're going to be eating all of it, the bioavailability COULD be higher than with smoking (you won't inhale all the smoke, and even if you do, your lungs will only utilize part of that volume), but I'm not really sure. Anyway, ever since I first tried making cannabutter with hash, I'm never going back to weed again. Instead of hours of soaking your bud in fat, you melt some butter, crumble some hash into it, give it a quick stir and you're done - all ready to cook (and it tastes lovely too, a nice spicy hint to chocolate chip cookies for example - mmm-mm-mm!).
I would suspect vaporizing is subject to the same limitations as smoking in terms of the lungs not being able to absorb all the smoke coming in, but vaporizer... vapor will probably contain a lot more THC per unit volume than smoke, there being a lot of other unpleasant shit in smoke.
Re: Definitions of Hashish, Oil, Concentrates, etc. please
Perfect. Thanks.
Re: Definitions of Hashish, Oil, Concentrates, etc. please
cannabutter is totally different as it is made for ingestion and implies delta-11 THC, where smoking is about delta-9 THC (11 is stronger, and longer lasting than 9).
About the legality of what's available in CS, most are ok for they imply only a physical separation of the resin from the plant matter (eg. sieving). Still, there are a few places which sell "jelly hash", and this shoulldn't be allowed according to the law, for it is a mix of sieved resin and butane/iso oil. Same for places selling iso. this is oil, not hash.
About the legality of what's available in CS, most are ok for they imply only a physical separation of the resin from the plant matter (eg. sieving). Still, there are a few places which sell "jelly hash", and this shoulldn't be allowed according to the law, for it is a mix of sieved resin and butane/iso oil. Same for places selling iso. this is oil, not hash.
Re: Definitions of Hashish, Oil, Concentrates, etc. please
That's interesting. Why would you get a different THC from cannabutter than from smoking?
Is it the means of extraction or the means of ingestion that makes a difference?
I mentioned cannabutter above because both solvent extraction and the use of fat rely on the fact that cannabinoids are oily.
Is it the means of extraction or the means of ingestion that makes a difference?
I mentioned cannabutter above because both solvent extraction and the use of fat rely on the fact that cannabinoids are oily.