Author: GrayWolf

  I mixed some of Pharmer Joe’s center fraction Clear distillate and his THC-a crystals to make a delightful mix that we decided to call […]

I originally developed the Cannapop lollypops for Granny, a patient with jaw damage that left her with limited movement and constant pain.  The lollypop allowed […]

Here’s a tale from the hoary days of yore, but one that still has brothers and sisters swearing by the product.   In the olden days, […]

Most of us’ns first experience with cannabis was smoking it, but once its medical properties began to be better documented and medical cannabis came of […]

Aside from intravenous injections, the portals into the human body are oral, respiratory, transdermal, and rectal.  For some applications like nausea and colon/rectal cancer, it […]

Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu!!!!!!!!!!  Now that’s pain relief from a Topical! This amazingly effective pain relieving topical is just too, […]

Our Holy Anointing Oil oral/topical was formulated by Carla, aka Eloquentsolution, and was based on a recipe for Holy Anointing Oil give to Moses by the Lord […]

9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique We bumped into the Cotton Candy extraction technique by accident, while shaking out the original Mk III Terpenator.  We […]

Sweet Mary not only has trichomes on her very special succulent parts, she has trichomes on both her fan leaves and her stems.  Even her roots […]

 Heating a concentrate to its melting point in a vacuum oven or chamber, so as to reduce surface tension enough for bubbles to escape, and […]

Success has many fathers, but failure is most often a bastard child.  Lawrd knows who first conceived it, but who was the first to publish […]

Unloading columns can be tedious and we experimented with various methods ranging from an auger and battery operated electric drill, but loved this one the […]

As the temperature of LPG drops, so does its pressure.  The Engineering Tool Box offers a handy reference showing the pressure of different mixes at […]

During the time frame that I introduced the Mk III, I introduced the Lil Terp Passive extractor, which was based on the Mk III design, but […]

Jump117 shared an extraction technique with us on IC Mag forum, that used a stainless thermos to keep the LPG liquid longer, so as to […]

BHO is the acronym for Butane Honey Oil, which is cannabis essential oils extracted using LPG as a solvent.  That LPG typically contains n or […]

Flying in the face of the often espoused proffered opinion that any residual butane in your concentrate is “poison”, the Food and Drug Administration has […]

Here is a rating of lighter fuel brands best to worst with regard to Mystery Oil content, as compiled by Skyhighler and offered at https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=6099306&postcount=28  Best […]

Closed loop systems like the Terpenator also have the ability to vacuum distill the LPG used in the process, so as to reduce the PPM […]

The target constituents in cannabis that we covet, are aromatic hydrocarbons soluble in the simple Alkanes n-Butane and n-Propane, as well as their isomers Isobutane […]

Before we discuss extraction techniques, lets discuss safety and social responsibility.  Butane and Propane are both high flammable and typically under pressure  in their containers, […]

Simple Alkane MSDS Sheets & Properties: The simple Alkanes most often involved in cannabis extraction are n-Propane, n-Butane, Isobutane, n-Pentane, n-Hexane. and n-Heptane. Their MSDS […]

Quick Wash Isopropyl (QWISO) is similar to a QWET extraction using Ethanol, but uses cheaper un liquor taxed, 99% purity Isopropanol, found in places like […]

Ethanol extraction is one of our favorite methods, especially when run size gets beyond practical size limits for LPG extraction, and high monoterpene retention isn’t […]

Ethanol is one of the oldest solvents used to extract cannabis concentrates and due to its heavily taxed cost and hit and miss availability around […]

Giant Tea Ball Extraction A fast low tech way to extract a large amount of mixed trim fast, with a low equipment investment.  Check out […]

9.4.7.2 Subzero Extraction For ya’ll brothers and sisters looking to process larger quantities at a time, we recommend that you consider the Subzero Ethanol process, […]

Quick Wash Ethanol is an extraction process by which we freeze the material and chill the Ethanol before extracting, so that we limit the pickup […]

Vegetable glycerin (glycerol) extraction is an easy effective way to extract cannabis concentrates, and within the capability of most folks to perform.  It can be […]

Sweet Mary’s terpenes, terpenoids, and cannabinoids dissolve readily in fats and oils, allowing us to use them (fats and oils) for both extraction, or simply […]

 So how about the new kid on the block Rosin!  No solvents or license required. My best suggestion is to try it and decide for […]

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Some of ya’ll are looking for a way to further refine heavily carded kif, and one way that works for small personal quantities, is electrostatic […]

Kif comes from the Arabic kayf, meaning pleasure.  While hand rubbed charas is ostensibly the oldest method of harvesting Kif, sieving does date back to […]

Hand rubbed Charas is thought to be the oldest form of cannabis concentrate, predating sieving by centuries, if not eons.  It is made by rubbing the […]

By Pete Tewes, Aka GrowGeek IoT Integration Engineer Pt3 Technical, LLC. ***Full disclosure***  While I do happily work for a controls manufacture and have my […]

Rule 1:  First, do no harm. Learning to grow, extract, and formulate your own cannabis medications includes learning how to do so safely, as to […]

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 […]