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[Sakkadelic]

40% is apparently the optimal concentration for tannin precipitation. Why not start directly with a 40% ethanol solution instead? As water is a good solvent too.

Yes I think that would be the better option for oral consumption, but for smoalking It's maybe better to minimize the water content to reduce the solubility of contaminants, like calcium hydroxide for example, it is slightly soluble in water but not in ethanol. If there's a way to reliably clean it later (without NPS), then starting with 40% would be good, as I believe the cleaning steps would be required in either case.

I'm sure Transform will be able to advise you about how to proceed, and about any potential dangers of calcium acetate. While I'm sure it's not too healthy to smoke, smoking anything by combustion is unhealthy. So my concern would be if it's particularly worse than smoking the compounds found in typical changa plants.

For the second batch which I would like to use for changa I did not use acetic acid so the main contaminants should be calcium carbonate and calcium tannate, these are insoluble in ethanol and do not gel up like calcium acetate but they are very fine particles, so I am hoping with patience and filtering I will remove the majority of them.

Here's the concise LLM output for reference

Risks of smoking substances containing CaCO₃ or Ca-tannate:

• Formation of caustic calcium oxide (irritates and burns lungs/throat)
• Respiratory irritation from fine particulate matter
• Release of CO₂ reducing oxygen intake
• Toxic organic vapors from tannate decomposition (phenols, catechols)
• Chemical burns to mucous membranes
• Unknown impurities or untested combustion products → potential toxic exposure

I feel mostly concerned about the calcium oxide formation which might occur as the temperature at the tip of a cigarette for example can reach 900 °C. And also about the PM.
Maybe most of the stuff will remain as ash if smoalked in a joint that it wouldn't be a major concern comapred to what you said about smoking anything in general.

 

[Sakkadelic]

On the first try I did the microwave acid cooks and pulled with 95% ethanol in the fridge. I ended up with 0.63 g (2.5 %) semi solid goo from 25 g ACRB. I then based the leftover bark and pulled directly with ethanol, this gave around 0.35 g (1.4%) goo that hardened. A total of 3.9% yield, a significant amount of contaminants, I used to get around 1.8% goo with naphtha pulls on this bark. At this point I assumed the contaminants are mainly calcium hydroxide and/or calcium tannate, both insoluble in the ethanol but the ethanol remaind cloudy even with filtration, it seems like there are very fine particles suspended that are hard to filter. The calcium hydroxide would eventually turn into calcium carbonate and I thought once I redissolve with 95% ethanol to make changa I'd be able to get rid of most of it by filtration. However, when I added the ethanol the majority of the mass refused to dissolve. At first I left the ethanol covering the goo without stirring and after few hours it seemed to strip away the color but the goo still had its form and did not dissolve. So I tried to dissolve it by stirring in a hot water bath, but it turned into a granular sticky mess like crystalized honey and adding more ethanol did not help. It got so messy everything became sticky and smelling of dmt, and the pipette clogged and I splashed some into the water bath, luckily there wasn't a lot of water.

Today I tried cleaning up the dirty dmt (top left) from the first extraction. I recalled Transform mentioning that dmt (clean dmt) will float as an oil on top of water in a fridge, and I wanted to try that. I used natural mineral water with low mineral content and a pH of 8.2, once I added some drops to the dirty dmt it crumbled and disingrated, after adding more water and stirring, it seemed like a decent part had dissolved and small orange granules remained, some floated, some sank, and the water became cloudy. I assume the calcium acetate dissolved in the water and the dmt along with the insoluble calcium tannate and/or calcium hydroxide/carbonate had formed these granules and made the water cloudy, maybe that's why it didn't form an oil. I then transfered it into a small funnel stuffed with a piece of cotton (bottom left) and after the water passed I was left with that orange sediment. And then I washed it with hot ethanol and it looked like most of it dissolved and the filtered alcohol was clear and colored orange (right) and a small amount of calcium tannate and/or calcium hydroxide/carbonate was left behind.

This whole process was again messy and sticky and I am sure I didn't clean it fully and lost some more dmt in the process but I feel it is already much better. To make enhanced leaf I added dried salvia fruticosa that I picked from the nearby woods which smokes really smoothly. I used 500 mg salvia fruticosa, the same theoretical dmt amount in the 25 g of bark to get a theoretical 1:1 EL, but as I've lost quite a bit of the goods It's more likely to be around 1:2-3 EL.

It was nice to experiment with the first botched extraction and hopefully I'll be able to finish up the second extraction better. Overall I feel good about this method and I'm sure with more attempts I'll be able to get a relatively clean product for smoalking with good yields.