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A Posse ad Esse. From Possibility To Realization.
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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
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