How To Make Cannabutter [W/ Pics]

westmich

westmich

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Here are some recipes I came across on a medical marijuana site and thought I would share. The last one is new to me and I don't think I will be trying it.

Making Cannabutter
To make cannabutter, put a large kettle on to boil. Add a pound of butter. Bring the water-butter mixture to boil. The temperature will never go above 212 F--remember your high school science. This is warm enough to activate the cannabinoids but not so hot as to degrade them. You can boil this mixture all day long without fear, AS LONG AS you don't let it boil dry.
As the water-butter mix gently simmers, stir in one ounce of medical marijuana. Allow the water-butter-medical marijuana mixture to continue to simmer at a gentle boil for two hours. Stir occasionally, washing any residues that accumulate on the sides of your kettle back into the liquid. You don't have to hover over it, just check it occasionally and don't let the pan boil dry.
After 2 hours, remove kettle from heat. The cannabinoids are now dissolved out of the plant material and into the butter. Strain the mixture, while still very hot through a strainer, a nylon stocking or a similar fine meshed filter. Set liquid aside.
To recover as much of the butter as possible, return the plant material to the kettle and refill with water. Bring to boil. Stir briskly and then pour second batch of liquid through the filter. Add the resulting liquid to the first pot of filtered water. You may now discard the plant material; it no longer contains the beneficial cannabinoids.
Allow liquid to cool. As it does, the butter will float to the top and form a solid layer on top of the water. Once fully cooled and the butter has solidified it may be gently skimmed off. The butter will most likely be greenish in color, that's OK. Actually that's good because it makes the cannabutter immediately recognizable which lessens the chances of accidental ingestion.
Store your cannabutter in a closed container in your refrigerator. It must be kept refrigerated to keep it from going rancid.
To test the strength of your cannabutter, spread a half teaspoon full on a cracker and try it out. It takes about an hour to reach its full effect. Be careful, it can sneak up on you. Do not attempt any complex, challenging or potentially dangerous tasks until you know how it will effect you.
Cannabutter may be substituted for regular butter in any recipe. It is especially good for making candy, cookies and brownies. The amount to use in any particular recipe comes down to a matter of learning from experience. The best approach is to start small and then use a steadily increasing amount in each subsequent recipe until you find the dosage that is most beneficial for relieving your particular complex of symptoms.
Fortunately, it is literally impossible to overdose on marijuana. It is estimated that an adult would have to consume over 65 pounds of marijuana in less than an hour to take in a lethal dose.
The same techniques, same principals, may be used to infuse any vegetable oil with cannabinoids. However, many people find butter the most convenient and versatile.



Medical Marijuana Flour
Marijuana can be cooked into any favorite recipe. However most people do not care for the taste so it's important to chose recipes that will mask the flavor. Chocolate and tomato sauce are often used for that reason.
To prepare Medical Marijuana for cooking, the stems and seeds should be removed with a sift or kitchen strainer and the resulting powder ground to a flour like consistency. Only grind as much as you will use at any one time as the cannabinoids will quickly degrade and be lost once the medical marijuana has been finely ground up. Grinding does not make medical marijuana any more effective but it does make it more palatable. Save the stems to make cannabutter.
Add a cup or so of the medical marijuana flour to any recipe. Because of the great variability in cannabinoid ratios, potency and quality among the various cannabis strains, it will take some experimentation to determine the optimum amount of medical marijuana flour to add or portion size to consume.
Remember that it can take anywhere for one to three hours for eaten medical marijuana to deliver it's active ingredients to the bloodstream of the patient. Give the first portion time before consuming additional portions.
An excellent option for the novice medical marijuana cook is to use a pre-packaged brownie mix. Simply follow the directions on the box and add your medical marijuana to the batter. You may also wish to add an extra table spoon of margarine or oil and an 1/8 cup of water.


Suppositories
Medical marijuana can be easily converted into suppository form. Here’s how.
Begin with Medical Marijuana Flour. For maximum efficacy in suppository form, medical marijuana needs to be pulverized to dust. Suppository kits, beeswax and molds are available in health food stores and on-line.
Caution, beeswax is flammable. And hot wax is hot. The safest way to melt the beeswax is in a double boiler. If you must use a microwave use a low power setting, stop when the wax is half melted and then carefully stir to finish liquefying.
Once the beeswax has melted, gently stir in an equal measure of medical marijuana flour. The resulting 50:50 mixture should then be molded into shape while still warm. Roll into cylinders or pour into a mold and when cool wrap and store suppositories in waxed paper. Suppositories should be kept in a separate, clearly marked container inside your refrigerator.
Medical marijuana suppositories are well suited for patients who are unable to eat or smoke medical marijuana.
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SomeGuy

SomeGuy

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:bigjoint::eyesmoke::eyesmoke::eyesmoke:Thanks so much for the tutorial. I couldn't be happier! I used a mason jar of volcano duff (packed full). A loosely filled mason jar of trim, 1/2oz of buds in a crock pot with water and 3 sticks of butter for 6+ hrs. When done I got 2.5 sticks of butter back. A very strong dose is 1tbsp. The butter taste great. I thought maybe using duff it would be off, but the butter is a great color of amber and green, although the water I threw out was nasty. Thanks Again! I found my favorite way to get high now...LOL Edibles have NEVER worked for me before.:bigjoint::eyesmoke::eyesmoke::eyesmoke:
 
dduo420

dduo420

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Artillerie said:
I always used the weedtrash instead of pure weed, was pretty nice too. And I always made it too roughly, without the wire strainer so all of the weed was in the cake.
This sounds way better!
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How was the trash prepared? Thanks
 
SomeGuy

SomeGuy

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All of the trim or plant material should be dry. Does not necessarily need to be cured though. I dry my trim in paper bags. Usually crispy after a week.
 
westmich

westmich

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Interesting. The couple times I tried it I never dried them first. In fact, the last batch I used some trim that was a couple weeks old. I had been keeping it in the freezer to keep it from being dried out.
 
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chronicj69

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hey i would like to make a few space snacks. for only two people but i wanna get fucked up without usin all my pot lol. how much do u think would get us ripped off of our asses. note baking is the only option stove top is broken...:wall:
 
SomeGuy

SomeGuy

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westmich said:
Interesting. The couple times I tried it I never dried them first. In fact, the last batch I used some trim that was a couple weeks old. I had been keeping it in the freezer to keep it from being dried out.
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probably wouldnt hurt. I imagine your butter taste a little more "planty" though..LOL. It would also be hard to figure out amounts (ratio of material to butter/water) as wet material weighs alot more than dry.
 
spontcumb

spontcumb

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I made some cannabutter for the first time yesterday. 3/4oz of a mixture of Northern Soul, Blue Cheese, Purple Power and Northern Lights. Now I'm gonna run across the street to my local convenience store and grab a box of brownie mix. I've got a bunch of friends coming over for our weekly "Twin Peaks" night. Great combination Twin Peaks and funny brownies. Might be even more difficult to keep the eyes open. We'll find out in a few hours!! Peace and thanks to all. Great thread!
 
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Wretched420

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well like my earlier post says i was and did make some cannabutter but... haha i read through it real quick and htne that night i went to my buddies house and we end up trying it but without the directions he had not internet so we just did it on what i remembered what you said soo heres my pictures.. they turned out great except i didnt read you simmered for 4-6 hours and we didnt have a strainer to drain the muclh left over so we had a few bites with stems but most of it sat at the bottom of the bowl when it was cooling..


.hhaa half ass cannabutter
:bigjoint::leaf:

dpix not uplaoding check next post
 
collectselltrade

collectselltrade

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i made some butter, i used all my fan leaves , trim leaves, some small stems, (3 plants)double boiler, just 2 1/2 lbs of butter, no water cooked over low heat 23 hours, ened up with a 2 /14 lbs of sick put you to sleep butter, made a batch of brownies sleepers after 1/2 hour then i melted it and added one mor set of the same less stems to the same butter....5 mins later you get a body buzz....butter is dark green dank
 
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