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GrayWolf's Lair

GrayWolf's Lair

A Posse ad Esse. From Possibility To Realization.

  • 1. About-Us
    • 1.1 Article by Graywolf/JD Ellis
    • 1.2 History and about
    • 1.3 The Grey Wolf in Alchemical symbology
    • 1.4 From Russia with love!
    • 1.5 Dr Kate Welch and our presentation at PSU
    • 1.6 What happened?
  • 2. Legal, Political, & Current Affairs
    • 2.1.1 Latest NORML Articles
    • 2.2 The Oil Wars
    • 2.4 Extraction Innovators U-tube regarding closed loop extraction evolution
  • 3. Medical
    • 3.1 Granny Storm Crow’s List 2019
    • 3.2 RIP Brandy
  • 4. Authors Columns
    • 4.1 Graywolf
      • 4.1.1 About JD aka Graywolf
      • 4.1.2 The Elvis(es) have left the building
      • 4.1.3 Posting standards for reader comments
      • 4.1.4 Process Evolution
      • 4.1.5 About 1.1’s new artwork by Dented Art
      • 4.1.7 Modern Extractor Bonus E02 POD cast with Graywolf.
      • 4.1.8 Where is this handbasket named Facebook headed??
      • 4.1.9 Thoughts and sayings
      • 4.1.10 New Nostalgic Book, by D. Gold
    • 4.2 Eloquent Solution
      • 4.2.1 About Carla Kay, Eloquent Solution
    • 4.3 Pharmer Joe
    • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.1 About Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
      • 4.4.2 Cannabis Formula from the US Dispensatory, 1870
      • 4.4.3 Cannabinoid Carboxylic Acids, THCA and CBDA
      • 4.4.4 Introducing Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D
    • 4.6 D Gold
      • 4.6.1 About D Gold
      • 4.6.1.1 Hello and recollections, by D Gold
      • 4.6.2 Red oil in the late 60’s and early 70’s
      • 4.6.3 PURE THC for three bucks a gram?
      • 4.6.4 Dave Golds MEGAPLANT Challenge
      • 4.6.5 Questions About Long Term Flower Storage?? by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.6 The Chilum by Dave Gold
      • 4.6.7.Canna-Beer by D. Gold
        • 4.6.7.1 D Gold’s Cannabeer update
        • 4.6.7.2 A few more thoughts on CANNABEER by D Gold
        • 4.6.7.3 CO2 for cheap, beer for free by D Gold
      • 4.6.8 COVID, CBD, TERPENES, by D Gold
    • 4.7 Doug Cody
      • 4.7.2  The Solvent Wars, by Doug Cody, Cannabis Home Sciences
  • 5. Upcoming Speaker & Vendor Events
  • 6. Classes
  • 7. Raffles
  • 8. Essential Oil Safety
    • 8.1 Sweet Mary’s Charms
    • 8.2 Plant Waxes
    • 8.3 Salvaging Moldy Material
    • 8.4 Sweet Mary’s Charms II
    • 8.5 Oh Sweet Mary, What is that perfume you’re wearing?
    • 8.6 Where does all the color come from?
    • 8.7 Vaping illnesses and deaths
    • 8.8 Characterizing the smell of Marijuana by odor impact of volatile compounds
    • 8.9 Guide to buying Delta-8-THC, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 8.10 FDA Residual Solvent Standards
    • 8.11 Dr Justin Fischedick On Plant Terpenes
    • 8.12 Butane/Propane Mystery oil
    • 8.13 How much LPG mixture can I safely load in my tank?
    • 8.14 Please do not immolate yourselves extracting BHO Indoors
  • 9. DIY CannaMed Production
    • 9.1 Safety
      • 9.1.1 DIY Canna-med Production Safety
    • 9.2 Growing
      • 9.2.2 Indoor garden
      • 9.2.4 A crash course in grow room automation
    • 9.3 Harvesting Drying and Curing
    • 9.4 Extraction
      • 9.4.1 Hand rub Charas
      • 9.4.2 Dry sieve
        • 9.4.2.2 Refining to full melt using electrostatic charges
      • 9.4.3 Bubble
      • 9.4.4 Rosin Extraction
      • 9.4.5 Vegetable and Nut Oil Extraction
      • 9.4.6 Glycerol Extraction
      • 9.4.7 Ethanol extraction
        • 9.4.7.1 QWET
        • 9.4.7.2 Subzero extraction
        • 9.4.7.3 Giant Tea ball extraction
        • 9.4.7.4 Alcohol Extraction Overview
        • 9.4.7.5 Recovery stills
      • 9.4.8 Isopropyl extraction
        • 9.4.8.1 QWISO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
      • 9.4.9 Alkane extraction
        • 9.4.9.1 Pentane, Hexane, and Heptane simple Alkanes
        • 9.4.9.2 Propane/Butane extractions
          • 9.4.9.2.1 Butane Safety and social responsibility
          • 9.4.9.2.2 Overview of BHO extraction
          • 9.4.9.2.3 Butane Mystery Oil Removal using a Terpenator
          • 9.4.9.2.6 Mystery oil content by lighter fuel brand
          • 9.4.9.3 Absolute Amber from Banana Silver Ladyboys by Jump117
      • 9.4.10 n-Butane, Isobutane, and Propane Rated GRAS by FDA
      • 9.4.11 BHO Open Blast
      • 9.4.12 Thermos extraction
      • 9.4.13 Lil Terp Passive Extractor
      • 9.4.14 Active Closed Loop
        • 9.4.14.1 Vapor boost for cold injections
        • 9.4.14.2 Unloading Columns With Air
        • 9.4.14.3 The History of BHO
      • 9.4.15 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane
        • 9.4.15.1 Extraction
        • 9.4.15.2 Recovery
      • 9.4.16 Vacuum Purging
      • 9.4.17 Extracting oil from fan leaves and stems
      • 9.4.14.4 The Cotton Candy Extraction Technique
    • 9.5 Formulation and Application
      • 9.5.1 Holy Anointing Oil
      • 9.5.2 Graywolf’s EZ CBD Topical
      • 9.5.3 Suppositories
      • 9.5.4 Dab and Vaporizations Sytems:
      • 9.5.5 Cannabuttons
      • 9.5.6 Cannapops
      • 9.5.7 Royal Jelly
      • 9.5.8 Adabadoya snowballs
      • 9.5.9 Yet another way to vape without using e-pen carts
  • 10. The Alchemist Resource
    • 10.1 Decarboxylation
      • 10.1.1 Decarboxylation of Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) to active THC
      • 10.1.2 Decarboxylating Ethanol Tinctures In Situ
      • 10.1.3 Closed Wash Decarb by Ichiban Crafter
      • 10.1.4 Decarboxylation 101
    • 10.2 Winterizing
    • 10.3 Pentane/Hexane/Heptane and brine wash
    • 10.4 Isomerizing
    • 10.5 THC-O-A Acetate
    • 10.6 Sweet Mary’s Charms III
    • 10.7 CRC
      • 10.7.1 First Column Chromatography experiment
      • 10.7.2 CRC Murphy Murri style
      • 10.7.3 CRC 101, Intro to CRC and packing a poor man’s CRC
      • 10.7.4 ADSORBENT CLAYS, THEIR DISTRIBUTION, PROPERTIES PRODUCTION, AND USES
      • 10.7.5 Multicomponent Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Liquid Phase: Predictive, Engineering Models, Molecular Simulations and Experiments.
      • 10.7.6 Opalene Silica Grandular Absorbent by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.8 Short Path
      • 10.8.1 Introduction to Short Path Distillation, by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.9 THC-a Diamond Mining General Overview
      • 10.9.1 Diamond Mining by Erich Berkovitz
    • 10.10 Alkanes and Alkane alcohols as solvents
    • 10.11 Isolation of D9-THC from Hemp and analytical aspects
    • 10.12 Sustainable Production of Cannabinoids with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Technologies
    • 10.13 Rate of THC Decomposition to CBN, et al
    • 10.14 Plant Waxes
    • 10.15 Identifying cannabis strains by terpene profile
    • 10.16 What are Anthocyanins
    • 10.17 Phytocanabinoids: a Unified Critical Inventory,
    • 10.18 Carbon Scrubbing & Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filtering, by Ichiban Crafters
    • 10.19 190 Proof Ethanol from scratch
  • 11. Commercial Processes
  • 12. Extraction Booth and Ventilation
    • 12.1 Extraction Booth and Ventilation System Design
  • 13. Certification
    • 13.1 Certification
  • 14. Resources
    • 14.0 Resources
  • 15. DIY Equipment
    • 15.1 The History of the Terpenator According to Gospel
    • 15.2 Lil Terp
    • 15.3 Heat exchangers
      • 15.3.1 Ethanol recovery heat exchanger
      • 15.3.2 Counter flow heat exchangers
      • 15.3.3 Tri Coil Heat Exchanger Design
    • 15.4 The Evapanator DIY Rotary Thin Film Evaporator
    • 15.5 The DIY Rotary Evaporator by Siskiyou Sam
    • 15.6 ASME Pressure pots
    • 15.7 Pot still
    • 15.8 Ethanol fractionating still
      • 15.8.1 Refluxing columns for producing 190 proof Ethanol
    • 15.9 Sanitary Clamp Pressure Ratings
    • 15.10 DIY Seed Separator
    • 15.11 Convert EXT-420 to selectable single or double stage operation
    • 15.12 Refurbishing a used Napco Vacuum Oven and Controls
    • 15.13 Ethanol Subzero
    • 15.14 DIY Vacuum chamber
    • 15.15 Distilling and Polishing LPG
    • 15.16 Plant turnover and dipping fixture
    • 15.17 Induction heated nails
    • 15.18 Electric nails
    • 15.19 Tumbling
    • 15.20 The Grinning Reaper
    • 15.21 How to make DIY Dry sieving frames
    • 15.22 Material choice for extractor systems
    • 15.23 Mk VIII Inline Dewaxing
    • 15.24 DIY SCFE CO2
    • 15.25 Hot vapor assist
    • 15.26 Acoustical Extraction
    • 15.27 Automating the Extraction Process
    • 15.28 Extractor Column Design
    • 15.29 Remediating spent BHO extraction material for residual solvent
    • 15.30 Behold the Mk III Evolution and ancillaries
    • 15.31 Let’s discuss universal pump laws!
    • 15.32 Cannabis Extraction Thermodynamics 101
  • 16. Commercial Equipment
    • 16.1 Producers columns
      • 16.1.1 ABM Equipment bulk cannabis drying system
      • 16.1.2 Lab Baths – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
      • 16.1.3 DIRTY PURGE – Contamination Threats In Vacuum Purging
    • 16.2 Equipment tests
      • 16.2.1 Extract Craft Source Turbo
      • 16.2.2 Testing D Gold’s ISO-3
      • 16.2.3 HMI Titanium Skillet
      • 16.2.4 Evaluation of Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision ML G3
      • 16.2.5 Testing the CAT Scientific MCX-66 Stirring Hotplate
      • 16.2.6 Testing the Extract Craft EtOH Pro
      • 16.2.7 Field testing the Medxtract Essential
    • 16.3 Plant tours
      • 16.3.1 Subzero Scientific
  • 17.0 Used facilities and equipment for sale:
    • 17.1 An $8M industrial-scale, USDA-Certified CBD/THC distillate-making facility for $3.75M.
    • 17.2 Miscellaneous Processing Equipment
    • 17.3 More misc equipment from Sam
    • 17.4 More from Sam
    • 17.5 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.7 New stuff from Sam
    • 17.8 More goodies from Sam
    • 17.8 Used flash chromatography unit from Subzero Scientific
  • 18.0 The vacuum cooking and aluminum bead sous vide test sled
    • 18.0.1 The Vacuum Cooking and Aluminum Bead Sous Vide Test Sled, Chapter 2
    • 18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads
      • 18.1.1 Aluminum Bead Crème Brulee Sous Vide
      • 18.1.2 Egg Bites
    • 18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum
      • 18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

Category: 4. Authors Columns

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  • 4.7 Doug Cody

4.7.2  The Solvent Wars, by Doug Cody, Cannabis Home Sciences

Posted on March 25, 2024April 5, 2024 3 mins

Here is an interesting article by Doug Cody at Cannabis Home Sciences on his extraction solvent research.   In it he goes into depth showing why […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.8 COVID, CBD, TERPENES, by D Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.7.3 CO2 for cheap, beer for free by D Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 8 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.7.2 A few more thoughts on CANNABEER by D Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 3 mins

“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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.7.1 D Gold’s Cannabeer update

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 18 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.7.Canna-Beer by D. Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 8 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.6 The Chilum by Dave Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 10 mins

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

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.5 Questions About Long Term Flower Storage?? by Dave Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 4 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.4 Dave Golds MEGAPLANT Challenge

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 10 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.3 PURE THC for three bucks a gram?

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 13 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.2 Red oil in the late 60’s and early 70’s

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 8 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.1.1 Hello and recollections, by D Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 29 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.6 D Gold

4.6.1 About D Gold

Posted on January 9, 2023April 6, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

4.4.4 Introducing Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 5 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

4.4.3 Cannabinoid Carboxylic Acids, THCA and CBDA

Posted on January 9, 2023May 14, 2023 15 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

4.4.2 Cannabis Formula from the US Dispensatory, 1870

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 9 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.4 Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

4.4.1 About Dr Kate Welch, Pharm D

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 4.2 Eloquent Solution

4.2.1 About Carla Kay, Eloquent Solution

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 0 mins
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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.9 Thoughts and sayings

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 10 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.8 Where is this handbasket named Facebook headed??

Posted on January 9, 2023April 6, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.7 Modern Extractor Bonus E02 POD cast with Graywolf.

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.5 About 1.1’s new artwork by Dented Art

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 1 min

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.  […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.4 Process Evolution

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.3 Posting standards for reader comments

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.2 The Elvis(es) have left the building

Posted on January 9, 2023March 21, 2023 2 mins

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 […]

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  • 4.1 Graywolf

4.1.1 About JD aka Graywolf

Posted on January 9, 2023April 5, 2023 3 mins

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 […]

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