I never used to like Glycerin Tincture, and I refused for years in the beginning to make Glycerin Tincture.
Yes... I would feel the full effects, and the glycerin only hauled in the THC happy stuff!.. don't get me wrong.. I like being happy, and feeling euphoric.... but I am fucked up physically and I need help.
SO.. I referred in my younger days to Glycerin Tincture as "Sissy Tincture". (I was not as open minded)
When the patients that were being sent to talk with me about alternatives became more diverse, I found patients that were in the work force... functioning in a job. These folks could not afford to take the dark stuff. It was too sedative in it's effect. They deserved proper Glycerin tinctures.
After all... feeling euphoric during your day can help you cope with some discomfort by making you happy.
I changed the name from "Sissy Tincture" to "Party Girl Tincture".
Wow.... names... titles.....
I was younger and needed names for things.
I just call it sweet tincture now.
If you want full effects... sand behind your eyelids fast, full spectrum cannabinoid whallop, whole tincture is your medicine.
If you want to be in a pleasant mood, and feel high, sweet tincture is for you.
There is room for both types of tincture in my world now.
NEXT.....
I have a 3rd tincture:
High CBD (ABV) tincture.
It is a whole tincture made from ABV...
8 pounds of ABV to 2 Liters of Everclear are the starting ingredients.
It winds up as 7 ounces (7 bottles like those in the post I made with the glycerin) of a high CBD tincture that is so dense that the inner walls of the bottle
form clear crystals of amazing potency... at the end of the process description, I will describe the incident in which I first found these crystals.
People in the community give me their ABV, in large amounts for some patients! Growers bring it also.
I grind it into flour and make ABV muffins, that each boast 6 grams of ABV in them... too much to go out in public.... so I recommend it as a nighttime medication for bedtime!
I build up a large amount and can't store it all, so I wait until this one container is full.
It holds 8 pounds. That fills up 4 one Gallon plastic Milk Jugs (100% cleaned and dried please)
I fill the 4 jugs with the ABV.
I then pour about a liter and a third of Everclear into one of my 4 ABV filled jugs.
I am saving about a 2/3 liter of Everclear to rinse through each of the jugs when I pour off the liquid.
I shake the jug around... and leave it a few hours.... then I do the following:
I set the next ABV filled jug on the counter.
I place a large funnel in it.
I turn the Everclear/ABV bottle upside down into the funnel of the dry ABV jug..... I am careful to find a corner spot to prop the top container up so it can drain by itself.
I then take a razor blade, and cut away the bottom of the upside down container....this allows better drainage, and it makes the top container into a funnel of sorts. No worry about the top jug's ABV pouring out with the alcohol.. it will wedge itself in place and help filter.
I let this drainage go on for a few hours, then I pour a little of my reserved leftover clean Everclear through my bottomless plastic jug to rinse the ABV.. leaving that for another hour to drip and drain.
I repeat this two more times with the remaining two jugs.
The last "drain" being the thickest.. O saved the most clean everclear for THAT rinse.
Now to reduce it.
I put it all (it wont be two liters, you do lose some..) into a vessel that you will submerge in a double boiler, and reduce it down to 25% of original volume.
Pour while still warm into bottles.
The stuff is narcotically potent!
Sedative.
Pain relieveing..
My discovery that I told you I would share....
The first time I did this procedure, I picked up a bottle and saw
what looked like dark clumps on the side of the bottle. But wait.. the clorophylls were barely present.. this weed was all vaped!
I poured out the Tincture into a new clean bottle so I good study these clumps.
I went in with a q-tip and wiped off the inner wall, and when I brought the q-tip out what I saw was...
The clumps were not dark, they were needle-like clear crystals that only looked dark until the dark ABV tincture was absorbed into the q-tip's cotton. I collected the crystals until I had a good sized little pile.
I got a few between by thumb and fingertip... and squished, and I felt them crunch like glass, and when I opened my fingers I saw yellowish powder I touched my finger to a drop of water, and held the fingers together and found the powder got very tacky.
I got a few more crystals and place a wad of them between my front teeth, and my teeth were surprisingly well glued together afterwards for so small an amount of the crystalline substance.
My final test was to collect a small scoop of the collected crystals, and get them into a capsule for ingestion in the morning when I am most susceptible to feeling change.
I woke at 4 to pee and ate my capsule and returned to bed.
When I woke at 6, I had a fairly useless morning, until the fog lifted.
The Tincture works the same way as the crystals, only it is far from tasteless (very bitter)
I was not about to try to harvest crystals, and left well enough alone.
I make a couple of batches a year of this ABV stuff, that I call High CBD Tincture.
