How To Make Green Dragon Tincture (Cannabis Tincture / Master Wu's)

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Sup, this is a video on how to make Green Dragon tincture, some easy way to make good use of your trim. Very potent and long lasting stuff, hope you enjoy! Dont forget to subscribe and thumbs up!

From Master Wu himself:
"Process details—references and rationalizations:
1. Chop the cannabis
More surface area gives means a faster and more efficient extraction.

2. Bake the cannabis.
This converts THCA to THC via a decarboxylation reaction.
In whole-plant cannabis, THC content is expressed as THCA (tetrahydrocannabolic acid) prior to decarboxylation into THC, which takes place when cannabis is heated during cooking, and smoked or vaporized ingestion. THCA is a mild analgesic and anti-inflammatory but does not have good affinity with our CB1 receptors, so in order to make a THC-rich tincture that has many of the same therapeutic effects as smoked ingestion (including rapid absorption, quick relief and ease of self-titration), we must convert the THCA in the plant matter into THC prior to extracting it through an alcohol soak. (from Vancouver Island Compassion Society http://thevics.com/cannamist.htm)
THC vaporizes at about 380°F. We want to heat the cannabis to convert THCA to THC, but keep the temperature under 380°F. That is why 325°F is used. Between four and five minutes your oven (and house) will start to smell very strong. This is the time to remove the cannabis from the oven.

Notice also that there is considerable misinformation regarding heating the cannabis. It is true that you don't have to heat it to extract both THC and THCA, but the amount of THC in whole plant preparations is relatively small compared to after decarboxylation of the THCA. So if you want to maximize the strength of your tincture you must heat the cannabis prior to extraction.

3. Use the highest proof alcohol available.
Where I live this is Bacardi 151. The more alcohol the more efficient the extraction will be.

4. Simmer the mixture.
This is one of the areas that seems to be most debated. Many recipes call for placing the cannabis (unbaked of course) into the alcohol and waiting 2 -- 6 weeks. The main concern with heating the alcohol is that it is "explosive" (not exactly true...it is however flammable).

The purpose of the simmering is to heat the alcohol mixture to improve extraction rates and efficiencies. Heating during extraction increases the motion of the molecules (basic physics/chemistry) and drastically decreases extraction times. The boiling point of pure ethanol is 173°F (78°C). We will use the water bath to heat the rum/cannabis mixture to just below the boiling point of ethanol.

Heating the alcohol mixture can be done very safely using a hot water bath. You will need an accurate candy or quick read thermometer. Place about 1 inch of water in a wide, vertical-edged pan (9" diameter x 3" high). Bring the water to a low simmer. The rum/cannabis mixture should be in a small (1 pint) mason jar. Do NOT cover the jar.

Put the thermometer into the mason jar and place into the simmering water bath. Bring the temperature of the rum/cannabis mixture to about 170°F. The alcohol should be just barely boiling.

You should have the oven fan on high. You will notice that any alcohol fumes are mixed with water vapor from the water bath and vented out the fan. This combined with the fact that you are trying not to boil the ethanol makes the process quite safe.

5. Strain and store.
When you are finished with the extraction you will be left with about 1oz of green dragon tincture after you have strained the extract. Notice that one ounce of the alcohol has evaporated. See the tips below for a good way to strain the tincture.

A standard eyedropper will transfer about 1ml (or 1 gram) of liquid. There are 29 milliliters in one ounce. So you should end up with about 30 or so full eyedroppers (30 milliliters) of Green Dragon.

The liquid should be dark brownish-green and smell like cannabis.

6. Dosage. Titration.
Everybody is different. It takes me between 30-90 minutes to feel the effects of Green Dragon (depending on how much food is in my stomach).

I had tried a tincture someone had made using the cold extraction method with the same amount of cannabis and found that 5 ml (5 full eyedroppers) did pretty much nothing.

Using my Green Dragon technique I find that one dropper will bring effects on in 30-90 minutes and last 5 hours with 1.5 hours of lingering aftereffects.

Two droppers gave me a "spiritual dose" (as strong as any brownie I ever had). Effects lasted 7-8 hours with lingering effects for 2 more hours."

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[brettymike]

Excellent instructive video,have you tried making it with glycerine instead of alcohol?

[ChronicJiujitsu]

@brettymike Yes I've tried glycerine, but like the tincture better. For some reason, the tincture gets more potent as it sits in the jar...

[rockchoppa201]

so its like drinking 151 bacardi but with a weed high... sounds fun

[RealJohnMc]

like ASShole

[gasmaskdude87]

@soccaplaya123456789

well if its THC not THCA then its already active... haha!

[soccaplaya123456789]

@WeeItsNookies THC is not active unless heat is applied. it turns THCA to THC. it's called decarboxylation.

[WeeItsNookies]

@Davyc712 Doesn't matter, just make sure the trim is covered by the alcohol theres no ratios,etc. The less trim you put in the less you get back..Althou this guy could of got double the amount you saw had he redid the process. You put just enough alcohol to cover the trim.

[WeeItsNookies]

Heat degrades THC out the ass. Theres a much simpler method. Just grind up the trim, stick it in a bottle of vodka. Seal the cap tight. Shake it out the ass..and do that a couple times a week for 2-3 weeks tada green dragon vodka. Dunno wtf this guy is doing sticking the trim in the oven and then boiling :S

[StickyGreenFiend]

@Davyc712

im guessing higher the proof the better and cover it to the top remembering that this stuff needs to evaporate later but needs to be sitting in the alcohol.

[Davyc712]

@StickyGreenFiend No i mean like how many parts of weed to how many parts of alcohol like if i wanted to put 7 grams into it, how much alcohol should i put in? Thanks!

[StickyGreenFiend]

@Davyc712 test it out by doing small doses till you kno ur limit. ive seen some other youtube video where they were ingesting very tiny bit it. it's a video about curing cancer with cannabis oil or tincture or something.

[StickyGreenFiend]

cool video tho