Some tips I've heard:
Bake your weed/shake/hash/whatever at 240F for 30 minutes or so before using it, this converts THCA to THC and increases its potency. "decarboxylation" or something like that is what's it called apparently, there's lots of reading material to be found on the internet.
After that, THC is oil soluble - simmer your plant matter in butter, vegetable oil, cream, lard or other fat, this pulls the THC out of it. You can then filter the plant matter out with a fine strainer, then use the infused fat in the recipe calls for it. Don't bake above 350F or you'll boil off the THC.
Of course I'm no expert, these are just things I heard about and researched out of pure curiosity.
Who among us hasn't done the same thing? My best songs were accompanied by blue flame.
Then don't.
I'm sure the laws requiring town dwellers to participate in communal beer brewing only existed because it was so much fun and brought everybody together and nothing with the fact that rivers and streams were polluted with sewage.
If you have a friend, and you didn't try to turn him on, you're not really his friend. So, Scott, I urge you, if you haven't listened to music stoned, you haven't lived. You can always eat the cookies.
Personally I don't fully trust the judgement of anybody who hasn't drunk the OJ, but just because you have doesn't mean you're not crazy.
The hemp uses for paper & fibre is quite different than pot plants... But one could easily envision driving thru fields of 12-16' tall hemp plants.
dave
Just like all domestic dogs are the same...
Hemp for fibre production has long, long stems (12-20' tall) with few joints so as to get maximum length fibres (and almost zero drug content). The typical drug plants are most often much shorter (18-36") and typically a much gnarlier branch structure.
dave
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Great topic, by the way. (5th Amendment in hand, of course.) 🙂
Yes! Did that with a few good friends in a studio full of synthesizers one evening, long ago in another century. Me with my Aries Modular system that I built from kits (which I still have - diySynth!), buddies with Minimoog, Polymoog, Arp 2600, etc. I still have a dusty old cassette of that night. Tangerine Dream it ain't, heh. Great fun at the time though.
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-- Jim
Yes! Did that with a few good friends in a studio full of synthesizers one evening, long ago in another century. Me with my Aries Modular system that I built from kits (which I still have - diySynth!), buddies with Minimoog, Polymoog, Arp 2600, etc. I still have a dusty old cassette of that night. Tangerine Dream it ain't, heh. Great fun at the time though.
[EDIT: Removed potential TOS violation, sorry about that]
-- Jim
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It's the same plant, yes, just genetically selected for end use.
I'm not hip to those communal brewing laws but the conclusion drawn begs the question, "What water did they use to make the beer?"
And of course the original statement wouldn't be limited to lasting music.
I'm not hip to those communal brewing laws but the conclusion drawn begs the question, "What water did they use to make the beer?"
And of course the original statement wouldn't be limited to lasting music.
Just like all domestic dogs are the same...
Hemp for fibre production has long, long stems (12-20' tall) with few joints so as to get maximum length fibres (and almost zero drug content). The typical drug plants are most often much shorter (18-36") and typically a much gnarlier branch structure.
dave
Just use an outdoor strain rather than the ones bred for indoor growing. They look very much like your first picture.
By far the tallest cannabis/hemp plant I've ever seen was grown for smoking.
It was taller than the neighbouring trees and the guy had a sideline using discs cut out of the stems to make coffee tables. Although he did start them indoors in November and planted them outdoors come spring.
Also for paper pulp you do not need long fibres, you need those for ropes.
Strains are less about outside & more about what do you want to use the plant for.
The top is Cannabis Sativa, the bottom Cannabis Indica (or some in-between cross). Sativa started out as an industrial plant, indica as a drug plant (much of the indica has ancestors in Afganistan and other areas of south-central asia).
There is also Cannabis Ruderalis which is just a weed.
Some Sativa strains are grown for drug content... but there are strains for industrial use, literally hundreds of thousands of potential applications. Food, textiles, manufacturing material, fuel, plastics, soil remediation, ground cover...
Indica -- and indica/sativa crosses -- are almost exclusively grown for drugs. And near a 100 active cannabinoids a broad range of blends with a wide range of effects. It will be interesting to see what happens when the open scientific community starts exploring...
dave
I smoked more than a fair amount of weed, and i can remember it enhanced my experience while listening to music, in a way that a $1 million system never could.
I stopped smoking the morning after my dad called to tell me my brother had a massive brain hemorhage (spelling yikes) and i only found out the next morning bcos when he called i was too stoned to pick up the phone.
now ~5 years later i dont miss it for a single moment and btw, my brother is fine.
Take care.
I stopped smoking the morning after my dad called to tell me my brother had a massive brain hemorhage (spelling yikes) and i only found out the next morning bcos when he called i was too stoned to pick up the phone.
now ~5 years later i dont miss it for a single moment and btw, my brother is fine.
Take care.
If you want to go into details the african (Durban Poison, Malawi Gold) and jamaican strains tend to be tall Sativas while the asian ones tend to be bushy Indicas. Ruderalis is these days crossed into many other strains since unlike the other two it flowers when it reaches a certain height rather then when the light period is shortened.
One of the first things people did when they developed what going to be known as skunk was to cross sativas with indicas to get a more manageable plant. Crossing also leads to what biologists call heterosis, hybrid vigour or outbreeding enhancement. It increases yield and/or potency compared to the parent plants or the 2nd generation hybrid.
Most cannabis which appears indigenous to parts of what used to be the British Empire tend to be Sativas.
For sometime the british gov of the time would pay immigrants the fare under the condition that they grow a certain amount of hemp for them.
Just like the roman empire was fuelled by leather ( they often charged taxes from occupied lands in the form of hides) the british one ran on hemp rope for its ships.
I'm an experienced smoker and I feel like sharing some knowledge. First of all, this drug is not for everybody. They have been playing with potency and a strong psychedelic variety could freak you out. Second, prolonged use (and not so prolonged) makes some people stupid - especially if they were already stupid before indulging in this drug. Third, think it twice before sharing this stuff with women. Yes, good for sex but maybe not that good for conversation.
People who enjoy eating should enjoy the experience, as it makes you feel like exploring new avenues of pleasure, people who like sex should enjoy it too. A strict and serious person is NOT going to enjoy the trip! Most likely they won't as it opens up doors that they want to keep closed.
So I generally keep this sort of amusement to myself, and I never smoke in public.
People who enjoy eating should enjoy the experience, as it makes you feel like exploring new avenues of pleasure, people who like sex should enjoy it too. A strict and serious person is NOT going to enjoy the trip! Most likely they won't as it opens up doors that they want to keep closed.
So I generally keep this sort of amusement to myself, and I never smoke in public.
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A guy I know here in Perth mixes local big outdoor festivals and big venues/stadiums.
He is adamant that no substances, alcohol or weed or other be partaken before doing a show, any show not just the big ones.
His reason is the change in hearing response/sensibility.
He maintains that just one sip or one puff causes immediate change, and not for the better.
I have to agree....from experience being altered/impaired does change sound perception from the mixing desk position and can make one less alert to distortions, wrong eq's, momentary feedbacks etc.
I have witnessed pub PA sound disasters....one touring Aus pub band so called sound engineer was likely off his head on amphetamines and would not leave any control on the desk for longer than about 8 seconds.
The mix went from ''the first two warm up songs not quite right yet'' to a total sorry mess.....and then got worse...if I was not relying on a lift I would have left.
Dan.
He is adamant that no substances, alcohol or weed or other be partaken before doing a show, any show not just the big ones.
His reason is the change in hearing response/sensibility.
He maintains that just one sip or one puff causes immediate change, and not for the better.
I have to agree....from experience being altered/impaired does change sound perception from the mixing desk position and can make one less alert to distortions, wrong eq's, momentary feedbacks etc.
I have witnessed pub PA sound disasters....one touring Aus pub band so called sound engineer was likely off his head on amphetamines and would not leave any control on the desk for longer than about 8 seconds.
The mix went from ''the first two warm up songs not quite right yet'' to a total sorry mess.....and then got worse...if I was not relying on a lift I would have left.
Dan.
There is certainly a time and place for things...Would I smoke on the way to meeting a customer or a GC on a job...of course not. Would I get home after the meeting take a puff and listen to some tunes, well yes.
Does my system sound better after I smoke....I am less likely to think it sounds bad when I smoke.
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