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Dry Ice Hash (a.k.a ‘Delta 9′)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Strain Review: California has now passed its new law that any Chemical extracted form of cannabis is ILLEGAL. Oils, Earwax, anything that was extracted using a chemical such as butane or alcohol is now ILLEGAL. Be advised patients!

Co-op’s such as ‘Green Angel of Malibu’ are selling this stuff called ‘Delta-9′ and I’ve asked them what it is and how it is made and the responses I’ve gotten are - “It’s crystallized kief.” & “It’s made with alcohol somehow.” - What? I didn’t understand these answers. So I did some research and found out how this ‘Delta-9′ concentrate is really made - because this is the best concentrate I have ever tried, it is very, very potent. The way it is made is with dry ice and screens, like when making kief. You use methods similar to sieving the kief and making bubble hash. Instead of ice, people use dry ice because the freezing strength is much strong then regular ice, and dry ice will not melt, it will just turn into a gas and evaporate. This type of concentrate is not made with butane or any solvents, although that doesn’t mean the person who made it didn’t use some solvent, but in general, this type of concentrate can be made without any solvents, just dry ice. It melts straight to a thick liquid once heated, like some oils do. So… with this being said, dry ice is a much better way to make a concentrated cannabis, it will freeze more trichs to be broken off, it will not turn into water and in my opinion - easier to work with in general. And the outcome between the two is an extreme difference - the dry ice will make a much more potent concentrate as more of the THC trichs will go be broken off and less contamination, I call the plant material ‘contamination’ because it serves no purpose besides to hold the THC, because less mixing will be involved. I have never actually made this style of concentrate - I have sieved kief and made bubble hash and other forms of ice water extraction but not dry ice. I honestly have had this idea long before I have ever heard of ‘Delta-9′ or dry ice hash, this idea came to me when I first made bubble hash with regular ice and thought that dry ice would be much more effecient in freezing the trichs. I don’t have much experience with concentrate making - so if there are any mistakes I have said or corrections that need to be made please let me know. Like I said I have never actually made dry ice hash just had the idea and then did some research only to find out people already do this and it works, supposedly works, very well.

[This was for information purposes only and all the information is just an opinion and I have not fully experimented with this to say it will be a 100% success, but in my opinion it is worth the try, and yes I will be trying this when I get sufficent trimmings and will be posting updates with the methods I have used and the outcome - but who knows when this will happen.]