Shishkaboy: whats kool aid?? Sounds tasty... that looks stellar too man
last time I made butter I used a shit load of trim.... It was the nastiest tasting shit ever. But it was potent as fuck. Two cookies and I felt like I was floating through space.the taste was unbearable. Saving my trim for other applications next time.
if you decarb the oil first it's a very similar effect to smoking, delta 9 thc in the bloodstream. sets in almost immediately, less than 10 minutes, and lasts about 2 hours on average---just like smoking for me.
I notice the same type of effects. Its a little more "trippy" and "giggly" than smoking to me tho.
I just use my trim. This batch was about 3.5 oz of fans and 15g of really good sugar trim for 14 oz of oil. Extracted for 2 hrs, cleaned 2x, then decarbed for 30 min.
i've finally wrapped my head around how the body metabolizes cannabinoids.
anything that passes through the liver will be transformed to 11-hydroxy-thc which has a slower onset (average 2 hours) and a longer duration (average 4 hours). this accounts for the huge variation in people's experiences with edibles. based on the speed of your metabolism, your onset and duration could be very different from the average. also certain bodies cannot efficiently process 11-hydroxy-thc (like some bodies can't properly process protein or calcium or whatever), so those bodies are the people that don't enjoy edibles or find them ineffective.
decarboxylation removes the carboxyl group from the thc-a molecule, transforming it to delta-9 thc. this happens immediately in a combustion situation like smoking a bowl or a joint.
the reason for decarbing edibles is not becasue eating delta-9 thc gets you high like smoking. if you eat delta-9 thc it still passes through the liver and is transformed to 11-hydroxy-thc before hitting the bloodstream.
the reason for decarbing edibles is because the body cannot efficiently metabolize thc-a. if you eat raw cannabis most of the thc-a will pass through your system before your body can process it into a useable form. your metabolism CAN process delta-9, however, so decarbing your edibles makes them far more bio-available.
SO, the beauty of a sublingual is that it skips the metabolism and goes straight into your bloodstream. there's not many ways to get the acid forms of cannabinoids into your system and sublingual application (or suppositories for that matter) on mucus membranes is the most accessible approach.
if you want to feel the delta-9 effect like you feel when you puff on some flowers, simply use decarbed hash in an appropriate carrier oil like coconut, mct, olive oil, etc and take it as a sublingual.
the onset is almost immediate---less than 10 minutes---and it lasts about 2 hours, just like smoking.
Anyone want to shred sugarloaf tomorrow? Its ME day $43 lift tickets. And 8-12" snow overnight.