Hello fellow Shroomerites, I have a question for all of you today as you already know from seeing the title. Now for those who are unaware, Concerta XRs (Better known as Ritalin, or the stimulating ingredient Methylphenidate) are psychostimulant pills that were ingeniously created specifically to help curb abuse/help a dose last throughout a day. So I was on these for a a few months when prescribed by my doctor and am now since off of them (THANK FUCKING GOD!), but realized that the design of the capsules really is excellent in context of another idea that I had.
I want to make extended release THC pills. Now I will specify right now, that getting a high from them would be quite nice, but it's more about curing/pacifying (till I can smoke) the nausea that comes on in waves throughout my day and ends with me having sleeping troubles and such.
A concerta pill is made up of four seperately important sections meant for different purposes. For all intensive purposes of this explanation I will speak in context of 36mg XR Concertas. They are white, and shaped like a cylindrical prism with the two ends popping out slightly. On the outermost layer in black font is, "Alza 36." Easily searchable if necassary.
1. The IR layer. The outermost layer of all Concerta extended release capsules have a white coating that feels like smooth thick paper. This layer contains 22% (7.92mg) of the active Ritalin concentration of the capsule.
2. The Plastic layer. This is a hard plastic coating around the body of the pill with two holes laser etched into them (One on the end and one in the middle of the pill body.
3. The Methylphenidate sections. There are three difffferent colored sections within the plastic, two orange/beige colored ones (One darker than the other) and a greenish grey section. The two orange beige sections are the Methylphenidate (The remaining 28.8mg).
4. The Sponge. The grayish green section is a sponge meant to absorb water.
SO HERE'S HOW THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER!: The pill is ingested and within the first hour, the outermost white IR coating has dissolved which brings you up gradually. As time continues water is absorbed little by little through the small laser etched holes in the plastic and causes the sponge to expand and small amounts of Ritalin to be pushed out concurrently. The day continues and the lighter beige lower concentration MethylP begins to mix with the Orange high concentration MethylP, which continues the mental stimulation and brings the patient down slowly before an abrupt cutoff.
So for me personally, these DESTROYED my stomach on top of my already bothersome gastro problems. I'd like to make XR THC pills in a fashion similar to but much less scientific than this (As I'm sure some of these processes require expensive lab grade equipment. Does anyone see it as possible? Even if nothing like this formation I mean specifically an XR?
Thanks in advance for any help y'alls guys. Fly On
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