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  1. Foreshot, Actually, you can combine ethanol and cannabis in such a way that you can get the affects of both alcohol and cannabis. You can even combine them with no added flavor from the cannabis, so that your whiskey and or vodka will give the same affects as cannabis, but with no flavor change what so ever. I know this because I own a business that builds process equipment for the extraction of oils from plant material. In some of my equipment butane is used as the solvent, but we also have a line of extraction equipment that uses ethanol as the solvent. Both lines of process equipment are very complex. Much more complex in fact than our vodka stills. The ethanol extraction process is done at -60°F. Once that process is completed you have around 5% oil in 95% ethanol. After extraction,the ethanol is reclaimed in one of our jacketed short path vacuum stills. So distillation occurs at less than 100° F. If someone where to be processing cannabis oil, they would place it in a thin film, rotary evaporator that also operates under vacuum. The oil is broken down into 3 fractions in the evaporator. One fraction is trash, the 2nd fraction is pure CBD and the 3rd is something called "the clear"which is around 85% THC and almost translucent. Some concentrations of THC such as "the clear" do not have a smell because the components that make up the smell get fractioned out. A person can be using ultra pure oil or the clear in an e cig vaporizer, standing right next to you and you would never know the difference. These concentrates are also used in food. Concentrates are a big part of the cannabis business because, all of the states where it is legal have quality control standards. If the bud is not potent enough,or if it has a little pollen on it then the state says it cannot be sold for the purpose of smoking. Also none of the trim from the buds or leaf from the plants is potent enough for the state to allow it to be sold to smoke, so all of that must be made into concentrates. Hash is still made,but good hash is typically less than 40% THC and the concentrates created using sub critical extraction with solvents like butane, CO2 and ethanol are twice as potent. Again very complex equipment is used in these extractions. CO2 extraction equipment operates at over 6000 psi. Anyway, I have already figured out a way to combine the clear with any spirit with no flavor impact. Once cannabis becomes legal at the federal level I'm sure that at some point you will see cannabis spirits of all sorts.
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