Day: January 9, 2023

I continue to see brothers posting that they are extracting both open blast and closed loop indoors without an engineered ventilation system.  Some arguing that […]

The question of how much LPG can I safely put in my tank continues to arise. You are of course limited to an 80% fill […]

In August of 2013, a brother posted on Facebook that he had discovered residuals left behind after evaporating away butane, that he described as “smelling […]

Perhaps the best opening question to start the article on sweet Mary’s charms, would be why are we so interested in these volatile compounds.  Our […]

Follow this link for the current FDA residual solvent standards for food and pharmaceuticals: https://www.fda.gov/media/71737/download

For what feels like the last few weeks, the federally legal US hemp market seems to have had a huge spike in demand for Delta-8-THC, […]

Here is an interest LEO study on the impact of volatile constituents on the odor detection of marijuana by humans and drug sniffing dogs.  It […]

Old news, amidst the current Corvid-19 pandemic, but a rash of pneumonia like vaping related illnesses and deaths drew international attention in 2019 and resulted […]

In my research for articles included in our TAR blog site launch, I found errors in my previous understanding of what was being extracted in […]

When discussing either cannabis flowers or concentrates in detail, the subject of odor comes up, leading to a discussion of the entourage effect of Sweet […]

A summary of the extensive work done  on the paper Constituents of Cannabis Sativa L XVII, A Review of the Natural Constituents, by Turner, Elsohly, and […]

Sometimes things go poorly and you end with moldy material and wonder what you can do with it.  The answer is it depends on what […]

Plant waxes are the protective cover between the plant cells and their environment, by which they regulate their water loss, and protect themselves from the […]

 Sweet Mary’s Charms by JD Ellis and Rob Brown  Wowza!  Because of the rapidly growing popularity for vaporizing cannabis concentrates, as well adding additional terpenes […]

Hi Everybody, Here is a link to a video discussing promising new research on treating COVID with CBD and terpenes.  It’s by Jon Kaiser, MD, “The […]

FREE BEER!?!?!!! Yep.  If you add up all the costs of the ingredients for making a batch of great home brewed craft beer in the most […]

“Dry Hopping” is a technique used by many brewers, especially when making heavily-hopped brews such as an IPA.  In short, dry hops are added to the […]

Hi Everyone, Graywolf asked me for an update on CANNABEER.  I’ve been brewing a lot lately, trying to recreate the Deadhead Draft I brewed back in […]

Hi Everybody, I’m about to brew some cannabis beer.  A friend offered me a bunch of 9 year old pulverized bubba kush flowers that were sealed […]

THE CHILLUM – Hardcore … Hardcore …Hardcore… The Chillum is a traditional, very simple, very effective smoking implement that has been used in Asia for […]

I have been thinking a lot lately about long term storage of flowers, and would appreciate any novel thoughts or ideas.  It seems like a […]

Sure is getting exciting. Dave’s THE 6 x 100 MEGAPLANT CHALLENGE California law now permits any adult to grow six plants, and, regardless of other […]

PURE THC for three bucks a gram? A Cannabis Market Disruptor? An ”Alchemy for the Masses” solution to today’s high prices for quality smoke?  Some tarnish […]

Hi Everyone, Sure is good to see Graywolf + Crew up and running again.  We’re living in an era when some people actually rebel against […]

What an honor! Graywolf just asked me to write a regular column for his new blog! It’s been several years since he disassociated himself from […]

ABOUT D. GOLD: Born in 1947 and reborn in 1966 (first cannabis experience), With the exception of the excellent $1 head shop pamphlets by Mary […]

Hello, Graywolf’s Lair Readers: It is fantastic to be back and to have a revived space for medical cannabis information from the people who helped […]

4.4.3  CANNABINOID CARBOXYLIC ACIDS THCA AND CBDA: THEIR POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND METHODS OF EXTRACTION Introduction to a cold extraction method for hash oil that […]

Posted by Accidental Medicine.  Historically, official pharmaceutical “dispensatories” were books that collected and presented an account of medicinal substances in the state in which they […]

Kate Welch, Pharm.D is a community retail and compounding pharmacist from Portland, OR.  She teaches pharmacology at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, and Herb-Drug-Nutrient Interactions […]

Some thoughts and sayings to ponder………..   Some cause happiness wherever they go and some whenever they go. Old age is coming at a really bad […]

Who sets Facebook’s community standards and how? The previously upset me by making me change the Tattered Old Graywolf FB site to James Ellis, who […]

Hi ya’ll!  Here is a link to Modern Extractor Bonus E02 POD cast that I participated in regarding the hoary days of yore in our fledgling […]

Hee, hee, hee, snicker, snark, snort………..  Check out the keen artwork donated to the site by Dented Art https://www.dentedbass.stream  now heading up our 1.1 About article at https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/1-about-us/history-and-about.  […]

A discussion of equipment design reminds us that all things are fixed in time, which is in motion, so yesterday’s or even today’s most brilliant […]

Goooode mawning ya’ll! All comments posted on Graywolf’s Lair are moderated before posting to public view, to insure our quality standards for site purpose and […]

Whoop, whoop, lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Eloquent Solution, Graywolf, and Pharmer Joe left Skunk Pharm Research in mid 2017, yet […]

JD, aka Graywolf or Fadedawg, was born in 1943, grew up in rural Oklahoma and after his stint in the USMC, moved to the Pacific […]

Soooo, how about those opioids??  Thank our creator for their availability when needed to insulate our senses from serious pain, but OMG, look at the […]

Hats off to Granny Storm Crow for compiling and maintaining her extensive 750 page list of cannabis related studies:            

Here is a link to a U-tube video regarding evolution of closed loop extractor designs by Extraction Innovators:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjSlCHSlxUA.

As with the history of BHO extraction, success has many fathers, some of which are trying to exclude competition and/or extort payment by claiming patent […]

From Volume 43 of Willamette Week, published 8-23-2017, by Elise Herron  http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/08/23/andrew-jones-says-he-will-dominate-the-hottest-slice-of-the-marijuana-marketbut-a-former-mentor-says-jones-is-profiting-from-an-invention-he-designed/ Editorial by Graywolf.  And the beat goes on…………  A well-researched and written article […]

Latest NORML Articles https://norml.org/news?link_id=2&can_id=d3e98cf77aed7bb73a0e237248bc6c7f&source=email-norml-news-of-the-week-642020-4&email_referrer=email_823228&email_subject=norml-news-of-the-week-642020 NORML has joined forces with some of America’s leading drug policy advocacy groups to host the 2020 National Drug Policy Reform […]

For those of ya’ll who missed Dr Kate Welch’s and our presentation at PSU, here is the U-Tube shot and edited by Tom Ohling. SAACS […]

 Here’s the recent interview with Graywolf and Eloquent Solution by Russian film crew here in Portland, who came to film the recent cannabis science seminar, […]

Alchemical symbol for Antimony, aka the Grey Wolf When most of us think of Alchemy we think of turning base metal into gold, but in […]

Wowza how far in the hoary past do we start?  We’uns three brethren spirits joined forces sometime around 2008, and our paths diverge considerably. Graywolf […]

Artwork by Saturnine designs https://www.saturnine.design Welcome back loyal followers to Graywolf’s Lair, the latest home of the original Skunk Pharmers Graywolf, Eloquentsolution, Pharmer Joe, and associates, as […]