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i was trying a new mash here is what I used:
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BLACK BEARDS RUM

Two pounds of brown sugar per one gallon of water and one cup of honey for every ten gallon batch. Starting hydrometer reading of about 90. Do not exceed 100. Add 1 to 3 ozs of yeast per 10 gallons of mash.

Heat one fourth of your water to 120 or 130 degrees only hot enough to melt the sugar, then stir in your sugar and then the honey last. Pour it into your fermenter and finish filling with cool water to cool it down to 80 degrees. Take a hydrometer reading and adjust as needed. The add your yeast. 6 to 14 days to ferment.
Yields about 12% alcohol.

I mixed it as directed it has been 3 weeks and my sg is 1.040 my potential alcohol was about 12% as it said it would be it still taste sweet. being new to this i M NOT SURE BUT SHOULNT MY SG BE ABOUT 1.0 is there anything I can do to get this down or should I try to distill it ? can smell co2 .could use some help

thanks guys

Sounds like its not finished yet. No added vitamin B, epson salts or nutrients? Could be it just stalled.

I would take off 1/2 a gallon, boil up some yeast in water to provide some nutrients (search yeast bomb), add that and dilute it to 1 gallon and pitch some fresh yeast into it. Add some vit B to your wash with some more nutrients, and when your starter is going well add it back to your fermenter. It should finish between 1.00 and 1.02.

With molasses in mine it never goes below 1.02, as there are some unfermentable sugars in the molasses. You mentioned 'brown sugar'. Well most 'brown' as opposed to 'cane' sugar is white sugar with molasses added to colour it, so you probably won't get to 1.00.