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Brass Capsules

BrassNwood

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These are quite simply BadKittySmiles / BadKat's capsules, but she isn't here to answer your questions and I am. With nearly 10 years of its use, I'm very experienced on how it works.
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15 grams of 220 micron dry ice Kief / Hash on each side.

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After 240 F for 40-minute decarb

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3 tablespoons of Coconut oil per dish
2 teaspoons Fearn Liquid Lecithin (Soy)
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes
Freeze
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes

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90 capsules per dish at 65mg each.
 
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BrassNwood

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Great pictorial.
Is one capsule 65mg enough for a dose ?
Eat a four just to be safe.


Most days 1 will light me up well enough. If I'm in some pain, then 2 for breakfast. If the pain monster is making a personal visit 3 will usually shut him up but 4 might be needed. This is the edge of the danger zone I don't like to get too close to.

While the stone is getting really good the higher you dose with Kaleidescope vision, and the music drilling holes in my brain, the spins await if I push too hard and take 1 to many.

High dosing gets tricky as the stuff lasts so long that it stacks in my system so after 3 or 4 days of heavy use, I start dropping the dose as I'm just to ripped.
 
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BrassNwood

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While I used to just toss all the scraps, I got a request for FECO / RSO and started making use of the remains a few years ago. This will get made into Capsules as well.

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10 liters of high proof alcohol, 4 gallons of bud scraps and a heavy duty metal potato ricer

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A quart at a time it got done. Fill jar with weed, add booze, cap and shake 10 seconds, done, repeat.

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Net take.

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About a gallon left
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2 jugs of booze trapped in this I'll recover once the still is set up.
 

BrassNwood

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15 grams

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15 more

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3 tablespoons of Coconut oil and 1 teaspoon of lecitihn.

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Decarbed at 240 F for 40 minutes (115 C)

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Started decarb on another 30 grams.

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Finished Capping the first two dishes.

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More oil and lecithin for the next batch. Infused and left in the freezer.

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360 so far.
 
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BrassNwood

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15 grams

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And 15 more in for decarb.

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The pair of dishes in the freezer got capped up.

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I wanted to hold back 5 grams for a batch of Kat's super high lecithin content but this left 8.something so I fussed with a bit more balance.
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Better

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Enough for a double.

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A double and a triple ready for processing / infusing. My 4 grams in the cup..

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Done and capped up for 90 and 60 capsules.

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Reached my goal of a full jar (800)ish

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4 grams of decarbed Hash
1/2 tablespoon Coconut oil
1/2 tablespoon fearn liquid lecithin.
Made 23 capsules
 

imiubu

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Another 30 grams headed to the toaster oven.

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Into the Oil / Lecithin.

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An eyedropper and keeping the Oil hot with the Mr. Coffee mug heater works well.

Thank you for such a detailed tutorial, much appreciated.
Also, thanks for the Edibles Calculator :)

I do not have the space/ equipment/ quantity of bud etc., to
make hash.

Can this also be accomplished with bud and or trim material?
I understand that w/ bud/ trim the end result may not be as potent.
I was thinking to just give the herb a good grinding, then proceed
with this method of decarb/ soaking/ freezing etc.

What say you? Would it be worth the effort?
 

BrassNwood

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Thank you for such a detailed tutorial, much appreciated.
Also, thanks for the Edibles Calculator :)

I do not have the space/ equipment/ quantity of bud etc., to
make hash.

Can this also be accomplished with bud and or trim material?
I understand that w/ bud/ trim the end result may not be as potent.
I was thinking to just give the herb a good grinding, then proceed
with this method of decarb/ soaking/ freezing etc.

What say you? Would it be worth the effort?
Yes you can work in bud dust well enough. It'll be 1/3rd as potent as the hash version but the particle size is so large it is hard to fill capsules with. A large bore eyedropper or trimmed pipette works best with bud dust.

I make the bud dust when we travel and I'm sourcing local weed.
 

BrassNwood

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I added 3 tablespoons of Coconut oil and popped it in the toaster oven for a couple of minutes. Blended and loosened all the tar. The hard bits separate and are pushed to the side and pressed out.
Poured in the working dish and added the lecithin. Heated 220 F for 10 minutes to encapsulate.


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About 90 capsules filled with FECO / Coconut oil / Lecithin in the usual ratio.
3 tablespoons of Oil and a long drizzle of Lecithin.

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Didn't quite empty the last bag.
 
I do something similar but the process is less involved and maybe more approachable to the noobie?

I use a French press after I heat the oil/water and cannabis together for some time. It squeezes the buds and releases more oils than otherwise. I then use a turkey baster to pull the oil away from the separated water and plant matter.

I order the empty vegan pill capsules online. They do not break down with oil. And I make myself a bunch of thc pills. It lasts a very very long time in the fridge but it's not even required. Each is about 500mg of cannabis oil. Once the oil cools, it's solid at room temp.

I got lupus, sometimes I can't smoke and everything's inflamed. I have like 200 infused capsules ready to go. I'm typically a daily, multiple times a day smoker and it only takes a couple capsules to get me there.
 

pipeline

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Thanks for the advice guys. About to get some capsules and some lechithin and get started maybe today.

Was wondering, could this concentrate be used as a sublingual tincture then swollowed instead of taking a pill?

Tinctures are usually alcohol based so not sure if it would work. Would rather not work with flammable solvents and just use this recipe if possible.
 

CharlesU Farley

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These are quite simply BadKittySmiles / BadKat's capsules, but she isn't here to answer your questions and I am. With nearly 10 years of its use, I'm very experienced on how it works.
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15 grams of 220 micron dry ice Kief / Hash on each side.

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After 240 F for 40-minute decarb

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3 tablespoons of Coconut oil per dish
2 teaspoons Fearn Liquid Lecithin (Soy)
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes
Freeze
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes

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90 capsules per dish at 65mg each.
Just now discovered this thread, will be following! I have frequently heard about mixing lecithin, various vegetable oils, with decarbed cannabis, kief, BHO, etc. I'm a real simple, keep it to the basics kind of guy, so this is what I've been doing for the last 6 years:

I consume 4 g of decarbed, top quality SouthEast Lights buds, ground to a super fine powder in a coffee grinder, in size 00 capsules... everyday, every week, every year.

It's not the process of encapsulating/using the lecithin / oil that has kept me from experimenting. It's just my belief that once anything hits the pH of ~2.0 in your stomach, everything is just kind of processed/digested together to be absorbed by the small intestine and converted to 11 hydroxy or whatever it is that your liver processes THC into to make it psychoactive.

Seeing an experienced "head" do this type of process, rather than hearing about it from a Millennial makes me want to investigate your process further. :LOL:

Might even get it give it a shot when I get a little bit of time here. ;)

Following the thread to learn some stuff.
 

pipeline

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Got all the supplies. About to make some. Thinking I want to use the extract as a sublingual then swollow to et more activity. Or will this end up being too much? Will be starting out with a low dose (0.25 ml) at the most so will put under tongue for a couple minutes and breath in the vapors before swollowing.

The tincture of hemp extract I have is based no coconut oil, so it should work great as a sublingual.
 

pipeline

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