Does alcohol also remove the carboxyl ring?

[Norlin]

I recall reading that alcohol also removes the carboxyl ring, making heating (the traditional decarboxylation process) unnecessary in preparation for a green dragon or qwiso. Can anyone confirm this? Google isn't proving useful atm.

 

[fake name]

If it does, it doesn't do it as well as heat. If a concentrate is made with drinking alcohol (ethanol) it can come out as shatter, a glass like consistency, which is the sign of thca.

From what I can google, hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups need a third reactant, and even then the alcohol is only breaking off the -OH of the carboxyl group, leaving the carbonyl group. So i'd say dercarboxilating is neccessary, but maybe there is something I am missing.