Well looking into SWITS's bong water which hasn't been changed for many-a-session I got thinking it has some nice earthy and green colour to it.

Just thinking, if the inside of a bong was teflon coated and nothing stuck to it, could you put the water into an evaporating dish and evaporate the water off and recover any happy chemical that would otherwise be poured down the drain?

I was also thinking how it isn't water soluble, so could one potentially boil up some weed in water and reduce it back to "plain" weed which has already had heat applied? The steam shouldn't contain any of the fun right?

These are hare-brained schemes that I haven't tried myself nor researched, I took the slackers way out and posted this thread.

Feel free to dismiss, further the ideas of look on in awe.

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Just thinking, if the inside of a bong was teflon coated and nothing stuck to it, could you put the water into an evaporating dish and evaporate the water off and recover any happy chemical that would otherwise be poured down the drain?

There will be some gakky brown residue, which will probably contain small particles of weed, as well as dust (a large proportion of which is human skin), chlorophyll, bits of crappy stuff floating around, saliva, ash etc...


I was also thinking how it isn't water soluble, so could one potentially boil up some weed in water and reduce it back to "plain" weed which has already had heat applied? The steam shouldn't contain any of the fun right?

I believe this method is used to clean up crappy hash in the UK...


Incidentally, this isn't really chemistry...

l as dust (a large proportion of which is human skin),
That's fucking gross.

That's fucking gross.

Yes.

But, unfortunately, true (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/40430)...

Just thinking, if the inside of a bong was teflon coated and nothing stuck to it, could you put the water into an evaporating dish and evaporate the water off and recover any happy chemical that would otherwise be poured down the drain?

Well, yes...

...or, you could just filter the chunkies out with a coffee filter and have a cleaner product... or, do an ether pull. Go with diethyl, not petroleum.

I was also thinking how it isn't water soluble, so could one potentially boil up some weed in water and reduce it back to "plain" weed which has already had heat applied? The steam shouldn't contain any of the fun right?

Yes and no. If you form a layer of molten oil on the surface, and the steam is coming from under that, the little steam droplets might just be encapsulated, having a film of oil on their surface...

...sub-boiling can be useful for a few things, though. Probably still some microlosses, but hey, it has a few uses. Maybe this.

denatured alcohol and a coffee filter work better (and are easier to evaporate over a steam bath)

ps the water filters out the bad cancerous shit in the smoke so what you get is mostly tar and re congealed smoke when you extract with a solvent

Well, yes...

Go with dimethyl, not petroleum.




Also, put the dimethyl in a closed container, preferably glass and heat it to about 30C.

Also, watch it closely as the THC is transformed to an indole.

Also, put the dimethyl in a closed container, preferably glass and heat it to about 30C.

Also, watch it closely as the THC is transformed to an indole.

I call bullshit.

I call bullshit.

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Also, put the dimethyl in a closed container, preferably glass and heat it to about 30C.

Also, watch it closely as the THC is transformed to an indole.

No but it will explode!

That's fucking gross.

Not as gross as when you boil guitar strings to clean them off, you end up with this dead skin and a little bit of rust soup.