If I’m wrong please correct me. Distillate is a result of something that’s been distilled, which would insinuate a solvent having been used, no?
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I could also be wrong. But I don’t think a solvent is required.
You can distill water. But I guess water is also a “universal solvent”.
purify (a liquid) by vaporizing it, then condensing it by cooling the vapor, and collecting the resulting liquid.
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Do you guys realize that rosin carts could just as easily be the cause of lipid pneumonia?
There are ways to clean the fats off rosin but like @qma said I don’t think you rosin boys (and girls) are running a sophisticated enough tek yet.
You must remove the lipids to be able to make the cleanest meds possible
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You have to remove the vape cart to get the cleanest meds possible.
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Sure, but that is a bit too idealist.
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If you are gonna distil it, you will end up with ppm anyways. Now lets face a real fact:
A couple hundred ppm of butane is far safer than a couple parts per hundred (1-10%) waxes. Those waxes that get removed CAN kill you. The solvents can’t.
There is literally nothing cleaner about rosin carts. They are the lowest denominator. This is why they are uncommon.
Worst price
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Oh man "wookest fanclub "
That’s gonna be my rosin company name
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Now the posts above me are rosin hate.
See the difference 
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I already trademarked Wookiest fanclub. 
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absolutely. so long as you don’t add a solvent.
certainly no need to add any solvents in order to vaporize then condense the cannabinoids.
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I tried telling someone just that in another forum. Apparently rosin trumps disty (lmfao!)
Kinda had to exit out before I go off on another uninformed person over there.
If you made your distillate, there should be zero bs left in it.
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no.
you can remove the solvent from your cannabinoids via distillation (if you added some at some previous point), or you can distill the cannabionods themselves…no solvent required.
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next you’ll be telling folks that the only safe way to use their meds is to stick them up their ass
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Yeah that’s kinda like talking to the marketing folks who claim CO2 extracted distillate is superior because it’s solventless all the while ignoring the whole winterization discussion. You just have to shake your head and walk away. There are even store chains who believe that hype as well and refuse to carry any product that wasn’t extracted with CO2. Knuckleheads…
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So there’s no benefit to distilling pure rosin over just for example ethanol washing the fresh flower and distilling that instead?
All helpful info
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Do mean this?
Rosin as a crude, then spd it? If so, then end result is distillate.
I’m not sure I’m following
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That’s correct. Is there any benefit to distilling straight rosin? Since I have access to it.
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Over another extraction method.
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Imo, being a former squishier, rosin will leave a lot of cannanaboids behind.
But if you take all your rosin, you MUST winterize it. By adding ethanol (or methanol of your equipped), winterized said rosin. Take that and put it in your spd bf.
But imo, that’s a lot of work for the same disty resukt you just could have etoh washed biomass and washed 90% of cannanaboids out vs leaving 20% (estimated) in rosin pucks.
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the only advantage is bragging rights.
ie “solventless!”. which has it’s place.
@Demontrich is correct, you should almost certainly winterize before distillation, which will make lies of your solventless appellation…and the overall yield from flower to distillate will be significantly less than doing a QWET as your primary extraction.
@beaker did an awesome job, and kept it solvent free.
and @blackie already pointed you there…
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That has its place.
Suppositories are a pretty good drug delivery method, especially for people who can’t keep edibles/pills down.
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