Green Dragon

Green Dragon

Substance: Cannabis dissolved in 95% alcohol
Also known as: "Green Dragon"

The main ingredient

allowed to steep in the 95% spirit

Preparation: I shredded some cannabis buds into small bits and put them in this 95% (190 proof) pure grain alcohol called Spirytus. Yes, that's 95% Vol/Alc. I think this is the highest amount of stable alcohol you can have without it pulling moisture from the atmosphere and re-diluting it self. This is similar to the spirit marketed as Everclear in the United States. I got this bottle at a Greek bottle shop near my place. It's A$ 50 for the 500 ml bottle. The cashier asked me what I wanted it for, and I said "to dissolve plant material in" and he went "oh okay". :) Heh.

The front of the bottle - Spirytus

Anyway, I did drink quite a bit of the stuff, it really packs a punch if you drink it neat. I usually pour some of the stuff into a plastic bottle of diet coke and drink it. I learnt that this could be a bad idea though, the grain alcohol is also solvent grade so it could dissolve plastic. I'm not saying that it can, I really don't know, but it could. It easily rubbed off the blue use by dates on those bottles anyway. It also tends to turn a chilled drink into a warm drink. Yuck.

The back of the bottle - Spirytus Pure Spirit 95% Vol/Alc

I'm digressing. Anyway, before I came back for a holiday, I shredded some cannabis buds and put it into what remained of the bottle. When I returned a couple of days ago, I noticed that the alcohol had been colored a nice green by the cannabis. The cannabis has been left in the bottle for a total of 5 weeks (and 3 days) so that should be sufficient to allow the THC to leach out from the plant into the alcohol. I kept it in a dark cupboard all this while and it turned a deeper green when I shook the bottle. Anyway, I felt that this was a good time as any to have a taste so I took a couple of shots in some diet coke on an empty stomach.

The result after 5 weeks (and 3 days)

Time: 1:16 am

Poured 3 1/2 shots into 300 ml of diet coke. It tastes EXACTLY like what marijuana smoke tastes like when inhaled. nice. yum. I think the alcohol dissolved some nasty stuff from the plastic bottles too...yuck. it tastes chemical. Chugged it anyway

Time: 1:40 am

Felt slightly drunk with classic finger numbness. heh.

Time: 2:07 am

Feeling slightly stoned too, but the alcohol is masking most of the good aspects of mj. can feel enchaced auditory appreciation but no munchies yet.

Time: 2:18 am

ah feeling slightly stoned now. :) good. but it's a more relaxed laid back kind of stoned though, not like the seriously stoned you can get when you smoke bowl after bowl after bowl

Time: 2:27 am

it feels strange, but good. :) i've had alcohol + mj before, in that order. drank a six pack and smoked a couple of bowls and felt great too, but this is somehow slightly different to that feeling. for one thing i don't feel so sedated i'm about to sleep. perhaps that coz of the caffeine? had a couple of coffees before this too. it is a very nice feeling though, very laid back and chilly. much more mellow that smoking bowls but it's fun too. not as intense, and you have to consume a whole lot of pesticide while at it too.

Time 3:15 am

Feeling wasn't satisfactory so i pored another shot of the stuff into a 500 ml can of beer and skulled it. i can smell the mj. mmm

Time: 3:34 am

feeling pretty good now. 1/2 drunkish 1/2 stoned but not a lot of head fuck unlike when i'm stoned. it's pretty mellow and nice though. would go well with a couple of valiums but i'm saving my stash for a rainy day.

Time: 3:50 am

yeah feeling nice. stoned and a little pissed at the same time. nice nice nice. I'm watching My Wife is 18 - the one by Ekin Cheng and I'm laughing myself to tears
haha
not so funny is the fact that i watched disc 2 before watching disc 1 though coz the files were mislabeled on the network.

Anyway, the stuff was good, but not as intense as I would have liked. Perhaps I should have dissolved more cannabis buds into the alcohol, I'll do that next time. Note that you need a high proof alcohol to dissolve the stuff in, coz THC is alcohol (and fat) soluble but not water soluble, thus you'll want a high proof alcohol like Bacardi 151 or even better, this 95% stuff.

Coming soon: Cooking with Cannabis ;)