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How does one convert Marijuana (Medical- read description please) to hash oil?

Asked by Dog (25152points) December 14th, 2011

** Out of respect to my question please read the full description before responding- thanks! **

In my life I never imagined that I would walk down this path, yet here I am and I am grateful.

My mom has stage four mesothelioma. She was sent home in August “To be in hospice care and live her final days” according to medical doctors and staff.

I brought her to my home and, with a very positive environment, helped her be basically mobile again. After 10 weeks in my care she expressed a desire to return home. I was worried but helped her return.

Her physical state at that time was just above invalid. She is 5” 5” and had dropped to 90 pounds. She had no pain, I drained extra fluid off her lung every week through a catheter- about 800ml on average. She had oxygen to do any form of physical exercise.

We had tried Marinol and other appetite boosters. But she still lost weight. So I approached her, as a last ditch effort to keep her alive, about medical marijuana. She wants very much to live, so she agreed and I took her to a reputable doctor (head of the UCLA neurology department until he retired) and he agreed that she could benefit from taking medical marijuana and granted her the license to buy it.

That was four weeks ago.

Since taking the medical marijuana regularly (via capsule form) I am now consistently draining only 100ml of fluid off her lung every week compared to the 800ml before. She no longer requires any oxygen at all. She has more energy and NO- she is not stoned.

So now the medical marijuana dispensary near me has abruptly closed its doors. I hear this is common. But it leaves me in a huge quandary. My mom is leading a normal life again because of the capsules and now I can only get the raw materials.

Can Flutherites please tell me how to convert an ounce of medical marijuana to hash oil to put in capsules? I bought the empty gelatin capsules and the straight marijuana.

What she thrives on is two capsules of .7ml Hash oil in safflower oil. And again- she is not loaded or stoned. It allows her to totally function normally again despite the cancer. It is a blessing unlike any other I have seen. A miracle really. She is supposed to be dead yet she is doing better daily.

Please educate me on hash vs regular marijuana. Please tell me how to help my mom by producing what she needs.

Again please, if you are totally just posting to give a lame opinion with nothing to back it, please do not bother. If you have something positive to add please do even if it is only mildly on topic. I am in strange and unfamiliar territory here.

Thanks!

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13 Answers

lillycoyote's avatar

I really wish I had the right answer to this one, @Dog, I really wish I did. No one should ever be mindlessly denied relief from their suffering because of outdated or misguided views regarding marijuana. I have this only to offer you and I don’t know if it is the right or the best way. I hope someone here has something else, Good luck, friend, you are doing the right thing.

Judi's avatar

Aren’t there any other dispensaries you could use? Are you in the LA area? Have you asked the doctor?
My heart goes out to you and your mom. I will keep you both in my heart and my prayers. I hope you find what you need before she deteriorates again.
Here is a list of dispensaries in the Los Angeles area

judochop's avatar

Dog, I personally do not know how to convert but I live in a stones throw of many medical dispensaries and I would be happy, if need be to research the answer this week and get back to you. Please message me and let me know if I can help you out. All my best to you and your family and blessings to your mother. It will be a great day when Americans wake up ans realize the benefits of Marijuana. There is not one negative thing that Marijuana does, not one. Please let me know Dog. I am not working until this Saturday so I will have plenty of time.

jazmina88's avatar

I wish I was wise enough to help you, but I so glad to hear of this miracle! There should be other dispensaries and even delivery services. I know you will find what you need. Blessings to Mom!

Bellatrix's avatar

I don’t know either but I hope you can find an answer that will help your mum. So wrong that you should have to resort to asking us how to do this to help your mum. I hope you know we are all thinking of you and your mum. I know that doesn’t help solve the problem at hand but know there is a lot of positive energy coming your way.

Jeruba's avatar

How about this site? or this?

Search terms ‘make hash oil from weed’ (without quotes) seem very productive.

Aethelflaed's avatar

Is it specifically the hash oil that helps, or any hash, or marijuana in general?

Hash (aka hashish) is kind of a paste, a solid, made from compressing the “good” parts of the marijuana plant into a solid. Hash oil is then made by combining those “good” parts with a liquid. Both are good for their high THC content (THC being the part of the plant that gets you high), so people don’t have to use very much.

However, both hash and hash oil are quite complicated to make. Hash oil is sometimes made with butane, which is rather toxic.

If the goal is to help her ingest some kind of THC without having to smoke, then allow me to suggest pot butter or pot oil (the difference being, if you choose oil or butter…). With them, you can make pot brownies, or drizzle some over some pasta, or just dip your finger in and lick, or spread over bread, or pretty much any other way you use oil and butter. Now, it doesn’t taste great, so I always choose to use it with something cheap and not particularly gourmet. If you’re set on hash oil, then I’d be more than happy to dig up some instructions on how to do that. But if it doesn’t have to be hash oil or even hash, then I’d suggest a less complicated method of getting the THC off the plant.

jazmina88's avatar

it seems like hash oil gives them a good controlled dose.

Aethelflaed's avatar

Not really. Those specific hash oil capsules might have been formulated to have a really specific THC percentage, but that’s really hard to do when you don’t have a full-on laboratory at home.

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Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Dog I had a friend that liked to consume pot, but didn’t like smoking. He cooked his pot with a butter and oil mix to extract the thc, and used the oil to make different foods. 15 to 20 Minutes seemed to work. PM me if you have any questions. God bless your mom.

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El_Cadejo's avatar

The easiest way to make hash oil is with an extractor like this . You put the marijuana in the tube and then spray butane through the tube. The butane will stripe all the trichromes off the plant matter. The butane will then boil off over the next couple of minutes and you will be left with pure hash oil that can then be used however you please.

There is also obviously the cooking route to take as @aethelflaed mentioned which would be easier.

Have you considered having her use a vaporizer? It’d be a lot easier than going through all the trouble of making the oil and what not. I mean I realize she has lung issues so smoking is bad but the vapor is so light you can hardly feel it. May be worth looking into at least. I recently got this one and couldnt be more pleased with it. Extremely high quality while being very low priced for a vap. (honestly I like this thing more than a volcano) Another upside to a vap is you can then cook with vaped weed since not everything is released from it plant in the vaping process so it really saves you quite a bit of money down the road.

I hope everything works out well. Im really sorry about your mom, send her my wishes.

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