Making my tincture.

[Zebedee]

OK, I've decided that smoking x20 is far too powerful and traumatic to my system so I have opted (in the absence of fresh leaves for Quidding) to make a tincture out of my x20 (or rather out of what's left of my x20 after I have given some to a friend.... who btw wants to try it for the first time during our lunchbreak at work tomorrow via a pipe (we can go outside and are surrounded by woods and mountains, the Highlands basically)... yes, I know!!!!... I'm stilll trying to convince him not to and am considering holding off giving it to him until after work, althought I am not his keeper and I lothe external censorship, I feel to do otherwise would be irresponsible on my part)

Back to the tincture ..... I'll have about 0.5 - 0.6 of a gram of x20 salvia left so will use all of this (please post if this is possibly too much!!). I have decided that if I am to make this tincture, given the fact that I cannot get a hold of high proof alcohol, that I would just go for the best and having a penchant for brandy I have chosen  Remy Martin VSOP fine champagne cognac 40 % (already bought and am drinking it at the moment ) (I can get a 43% Gin, but I LOTHE gin so....)

This is how I will do it.. (normally I'd do it now and leave it for 72 hrs (I'd rather take it at the weekend when I do not have work) because of the lower strength alcohol, however as I am seeking some input/advise will leave making it 'til tommorow in order to consider the opinions (if any ) of the forum).... I willl take my SD and leave it in aproximately 200 ml of cognac for about 48hrs then strain my solution (would it matter if I just didn't bother about straining it, the leaf fragments don't bother me? and you can bet I WILL be swallowing this quality of brandy after I have let it soak through my oral membrane for approx 10-20 mins!! :lol:). I have decided not to heat it as I do not want to damage the alcohol in the cognac. (or the salvia of course)

So there we have it... I will let  0.5 - 0.6 g of x20 sit (with occasional shaking) in approx 250 ml (obviously the full 200 ml wouldn't be used all at once and is intended as a 'stash'.... would 200ml dilute the SD too much?) of some good, non heated cognac for 48 hrs and after this will swish and swirl it around my mouth for approx 10-20 mins (and swallow )

So does this sound like a reasonable way to make my tincture?

Am I wrong or do you have a better way/input to add?

All comments (at least until tommorow when I will make it) are most welcome.

[Zebedee]

Seeing as no one thought what I had planned was a dumb way to do it,lol, I went a head and made it yesterday morning, so I gonna have to leave it till either Sunday night or Monday sometime. I'll probably wait til Monday sometime just to make sure the solution is well saturated.

Hurry up Monday.(Jeez, that's the first time I've ever wished the weekend to end and for Monday to come :lol:)

[TooStonedToType]

I agree that to give him 20x at lunch break would be irressponsible.  

I didn't work out the figures on the amounts of alcohol vs. 20x, but that sounds about right.  Maybe too much alcohol  You don't need to filter out the leaf material.

[Zebedee]

Yeah, I didn't give it to him, despite his asking. I gave it to him after work.. from his report  he enjoyed the effects, it seems he could quite easily handle it when smoked. I've given him all of the information that I could get on it so it's up to him whether he wishes to continue to experiment.

As for the Monday part of my previous post... I don't start work again til wednesday so I have plenty of time to relax..

And as for the amount of alcohol I've chosen to use... I'd MUCH rather have to little than too much.

[Zebedee]

Ok, last night (Sunday) I decided I had waited long enough, lol.

I had two measure (about the same as a pub measure 1/4 gill) both kept in my mouth for approx 10 mins each (the reason for two was that I came to the conclusion that having one measure in my mouth for longer would have diluted the tincture too much with the saliva that was building)

I do admit that I felt something happen but it was a vague feeling, I now think that as TooStonedToType suggested I had used too much alcohol and therefore the tincture was too diluted. If I was to try again (and I have sill to come to a desision over this) I would use approx half (maybe a llitle more, say 150 mls) of the alcohol and I have no doubt that the experience would be stronger.