That was my first bit o' chemistry too....
Just soaked 1/2 lb of some decent reg in colemans concentrated with a fan in the garage. Once the mix was concentrated I'd add a drop of acid and then distill off the colemans. Took the residue up in a 50/50 water/alcohol with 5%/wt naoh then acidified the naoh layer with hcl and extracted with more colemans. Usually gave about twenty grams of nice oil.
That is the typical red oil method. I'm the one who turned my friend on to making hash oil and he made a red hash oil that made me see shit! I wish i knew what he had done. He said he only tried an isomerization on the oil.. I don't know wat was really done.
The only other time I have tripped on weed was when I ate a pretty big glob of some h2so4 isomerized oil which was heated up to a temperature (forgot what temp 160c?) afterward to supposedly to start a reaction to make it active for ingestion.. I have one thing to say about this myth.. I have eaten tons of oil and never got anything but that spicy bitter flavor from cold extract oils. The ones that were done with a soxhlet and addition of a drop of h2so4 before removal of solvent (distillation 120c) are the only oils I ever got any effect from eating. Though, it is hard to remember details accurately. I think I would have remembered trippin on weed.
Post what sources? On what? The delta five acetyl? I'm not sure if it even is delta five that is supposed to be super potent. I read a pretty good articel years ago that specified each isomer its equivelant (delta-1 = delta-9) stuff like that, and their potency. I believe delta-1 and delta-3 were the most potent (delta-6, delta-9?), memory a lil fuzzy. And then there was some dude who wrote a book that suggested that an acetylated isomer would be even more potent than delta-1, like 10-100x's, don't remember specifics.
I just want to know what it was that made me trip! I was hoping that someone here would know what isomer would do suc ha thing. Like I said I got some pretty cool visuals once from regular pure (delta-9,delta-1), but that was like a glob the size of a small bean/big pea. Dunno, but that read hash oil didn't take but a dab and it was WAY more visual? Anybody here ever tripped on thc before?