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Rising Star
Dear nexians,
I'm a newbie and I'm sure this has been discussed before, however, I googled and couldn't find much.
I completed my first successful extraction about one and a half week ago. I used a STB technique, everything worked fine. The final product looked good, it was not very colored and was a bit powdery. The next day it seemed to have dried, it still smelled a bit though. I used a spoon to move it around a bit in the coffee filter and then I saw it was still a little... waxy I guess is the word. Perhaps it had not properly dried.
I infused it in caapi leaves anyway using a technique I found on the forum, without the use of any chemical, simply by letting it melt over the caapi in a little container in a hot water bath. It was 1:1. I rolled a pure joint, of which I haven't really smoked much, only two tokes, and I rolled one with damiana and sage as an admixture. It's light but it felt very nice, a comfortable sensation.
However, after having smoked about 1/4 of this joint over the course of a week I felt my hair starting to get really thin. Like, I'm 32 and perhaps I'm just balding, but it has gotten notably thinner over the course of just a week. I even went to the doctor to ask whether there was something wrong. She said that if you are sick the hair breaks, which it didn't, she said I didn't have to worry about cancer or anything. (sorry to bring up the "c" word.)
Anyway, I have smoked product before, not made by myself, where after I had smoked my hair also seemed thinner. After a few weeks of not smoking it would usually start to get fuller again.
I have made another pull from my soup, I dried it for not just a day but a few days, and I noticed it does not smell at all anymore. The powder/crystals are now completely odorless.
I feel that as long as the crystals "smell like spice" it is basically the solvent that you smell. Is this correct? I now sincerely feel the smoking of "smelly spice" is very harmful to one's health. Am I mistaken in coming to this conclusion or not? I feel as long as it smells there is still solvent in it that has not evaporated properly.
So this is both a question and a warning. Be careful with smelly spice. Does anyone else have experience/knowledge regarding smelly/non-smelly powder/crystal?
Please share any thoughts. Thank you in advance.
I'm a newbie and I'm sure this has been discussed before, however, I googled and couldn't find much.
I completed my first successful extraction about one and a half week ago. I used a STB technique, everything worked fine. The final product looked good, it was not very colored and was a bit powdery. The next day it seemed to have dried, it still smelled a bit though. I used a spoon to move it around a bit in the coffee filter and then I saw it was still a little... waxy I guess is the word. Perhaps it had not properly dried.
I infused it in caapi leaves anyway using a technique I found on the forum, without the use of any chemical, simply by letting it melt over the caapi in a little container in a hot water bath. It was 1:1. I rolled a pure joint, of which I haven't really smoked much, only two tokes, and I rolled one with damiana and sage as an admixture. It's light but it felt very nice, a comfortable sensation.
However, after having smoked about 1/4 of this joint over the course of a week I felt my hair starting to get really thin. Like, I'm 32 and perhaps I'm just balding, but it has gotten notably thinner over the course of just a week. I even went to the doctor to ask whether there was something wrong. She said that if you are sick the hair breaks, which it didn't, she said I didn't have to worry about cancer or anything. (sorry to bring up the "c" word.)
Anyway, I have smoked product before, not made by myself, where after I had smoked my hair also seemed thinner. After a few weeks of not smoking it would usually start to get fuller again.
I have made another pull from my soup, I dried it for not just a day but a few days, and I noticed it does not smell at all anymore. The powder/crystals are now completely odorless.
I feel that as long as the crystals "smell like spice" it is basically the solvent that you smell. Is this correct? I now sincerely feel the smoking of "smelly spice" is very harmful to one's health. Am I mistaken in coming to this conclusion or not? I feel as long as it smells there is still solvent in it that has not evaporated properly.
So this is both a question and a warning. Be careful with smelly spice. Does anyone else have experience/knowledge regarding smelly/non-smelly powder/crystal?
Please share any thoughts. Thank you in advance.