My wife seemed to have a much better night’s sleep last night. She was awake early, but not that early (after 6am), so I am going to put that down to the cup of hot chocolate I made for her (with CBD infused milk) an hour before we went to bed.
I am going to decarboxylate the Olimax CBD oil today. Decarboxylation is required to convert the CBDA (CBD Acid) into CBD. CBD is more bioavailable, than CBDA, which just means that the body is more able to use it. The lab report on the manufacturer’s website shows that the 4% oil only has 0.8mg of CDB, the other 320mg is CBDA – not really what is required! To decarboxylate the oil, it needs to be heated to about 100 degrees Centigrade for about an hour, so I put my sample CBD oil in a pan with about half a pint of water (to keep the temperature to that of the boiling water) and also chuck in a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil so that (hopefully) the CBD oil will combine with the coconut oil, and thus will become solid at room temperature – I haven’t tried doing this before, so it’s just a theory at the moment!
While my oil is debcarboxylating, I get the camera and tripod set up by the cooker and take some shots of the process to use when I put my review video together. I also get my thoughts down on my iPad, to use as a script for the video.
When the hour is up, I let the pan cool down to room temperature, and can see that the oils are a nice dark green colour, and appear to be well combined, so I put the pan into the fridge to speed up the setting. Once it has set, I pour off the remaining water, and I’m just left with the decarboxylated oil. I will cut it up into dose sized portions and try taking some tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I have also committed to publishing my next vlog, so I need to script that today, so that I can video it tomorrow morning – I’m having a tooth extracted tomorrow lunchtime, so I’m guessing I won’t be feeling like doing very much videoing tomorrow afternoon.
I’m feeling a bit shaky this afternoon, even though my DBS seems to have my tremor under control, so I self-medicate with a little cannabis after I have taken the dog for her afternoon walk.