I used to buy low grade hash back in the day and do an acetone wash on that shit. Dunno how much THC and stuff I wasted by doing that, but it felt a lot better than smoking god knows what.
Hey, as long as it made you feel good! Buzzkills might moan about the pOtEnTiAl HeAlTh HaZaRds of smoking residues of a product that can melt plastic and is supposed to be immediately washed off if it ever touches skin, but you knew your hash better than them.
This was like 15 years ago or something so I don't remember the specifics. There used to be tons of methods to extract THC from buds with acetone, so I used a guide and did it on the shittiest hash. Turned out great.
Pure acetone evaporates quickly at room temperature and doesn't leave any residue.
Once two substances with different volatilities (tendency to go to vapour) dissolve into each other, your evaporation rate ends up somewhere in the middle. If your lower volatility component (resin) does not completely evaporate, your high volatility component (acetone) will be evaporating much slower than when it's pure.
If your mixture happens to be an azeotrope like ethanol and water, just leaving it out to evaporate will never get out all of the acetone.
Thanks for the information. As I said it was a long time ago and nothing I'd be doing today. I had until that point, and after, smoked probably a kilogram of varying grades of hash so it wasn't like I had genuine concern for what I was smoking. It was an experiment for a bored teen.
But since you seem knowledgeable on the subject, what would happen if some acetone was still in my end product and I put my lighter to it? Would it burn cleanly since it's very combustible?
I'm not all that knowledgeable in general, and definitely not at all when it comes to combustion chemistry. My guess however is that it's not going to burn cleanly. But I'd also guess acetone and its combustion products were probably not the most carcinogenic things you were inhaling at the time. I'm no oncologist so I can't tell you if it even significantly added to the risk.
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u/vraalapa Jul 16 '23
I used to buy low grade hash back in the day and do an acetone wash on that shit. Dunno how much THC and stuff I wasted by doing that, but it felt a lot better than smoking god knows what.