GroYourOwn said:

eating raw weed won't do much, if anything at all.

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Not so. First time I tried it was some 25 years ago, and it wrecked me.

DosileFlynn said:

this may be unrelated to the thread but i think you can get the pure thc crystals from freezing leaves and buds in the freezer, and then once frozen rolling them over a silk screen so that all the crystals fall off, i think its how they make hash apparently.

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rh2000 said:

GroYourOwn said:

eating raw weed won't do much, if anything at all.

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Not so. First time I tried it was some 25 years ago, and it wrecked me.

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Decarboxylation is just a step of the natural aging process...


The instant it's reasonably smoking-dry, your material is slowly decarbing, it is aging, first producing active THC, CBD, CBC,
and finally, it will produce the weaker and non-potent byproducts of degraded cannabinoids.

We use gentle heat, to speed up the natural process, but other means of dehydration can be used, such as freeze-drying.


The below are the first steps of the natural aging process, it doesn't happen all at once, but slowly, while the earliest cannabinoids
to become active, begin to degrade:



And the products of degradation (this can happen at room temp over the course of several months, or much more rapidly if:
too much dry heat is used during the decarb, or you fall asleep and forget your oil in the oven overnight!):







Some folks decarb using dry ice, and industrial freezers that reach sub-zero temps.


When hash has been sifted using dry ice, usually, you need to decarb much more briefly.


It takes up to several weeks with low humidity (depending how low) to decarb material in an average room, in the open air,
and during that time previously active material is subject to degradation.
But without utilizing liquid chromatography, you won't know whether it's finished on day 10 or day 30.


This is why we use gentle heat, industrial freezers, and low-temp dehydrators to initiate and almost-complete the decarb:
it creates a much smaller window, which improves your chances (without any available testing equipment) of decarbing
adequately, and any additional activation necessary, can occur much more gradually during the glandular breakdown while
somewhat protected in oil.


Hope this helps!

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