Dried Leaf THC Content

[SylvanElf]

For all you experienced growers and smokers out there, I was wondereing if you could help with a myth I have heard since the 70's.

Back in the day, everyone assumed that the leaves were just as good if not slightly less so, to smoke. Popular culture also "thinks" that pot is just dried leaves. Now I know that the most THC comes from the well ripened female buds but...... do the leaves, male or female, actually produce any THC.

If so, how much?

Links to articles and such are also welcomed along with your informed opinons. Thanks!

 

[madcow]

the leaves closest to the bubs are covered in thc I clip them off some times and somke'em you get a nice buzz.you can see the thc on them!

 

[rolln1up]

All the leaves and steams have some amount of THC in them but the amount is small compared to the other compounds in the leaves. The beast you can hope from smoking raw leaves is a short lived buzz followed by a lasting headache. Vaporizing would be better idea if you have to, but beast of all would be to do some kind of extraction method.

 

[SylvanElf]

All the leaves and steams have some amount of THC in them but the amount is small compared to the other compounds in the leaves. The beast you can hope from smoking raw leaves is a short lived buzz followed by a lasting headache. Vaporizing would be better idea if you have to, but beast of all would be to do some kind of extraction method.

Thanks, I was thinking along those same lines, using the vaporizor and all for extraction. I have also now read that the Male (or Femal for that matter)plant does not manufacuter significant amounts of THC until it is toward the end of sexual maturity (flowering).

 

[potroast]

Yes, the leaves can be covered in trichomes, and although they have less resin than the flower, they can be very potent, especially when concentrated. I use almost all of the leaf that I produce to make cannabutter. If you eat a couple of my cookies, you could find yourself sitting on a curb watching traffic while drool drips off your chin.

HTH

 

[SylvanElf]

Yes, the leaves can be covered in trichomes, and although they have less resin than the flower, they can be very potent, especially when concentrated. I use almost all of the leaf that I produce to make cannabutter. If you eat a couple of my cookies, you could find yourself sitting on a curb watching traffic while drool drips off your chin.

HTH

Care to share your recipe for cookies? Also, what is the process for making cannabutter?

 

[zechbro]

go look in grofaq

 

[kato88]

Ive smoked leaves off of my plant when noone had any weed... gives you a buzz (if your tolerence isn't too high), and it didn't give me a headache.

Of course it's not my preference.

 

[CrazyChester]

All the leaves and steams have some amount of THC in them but the amount is small compared to the other compounds in the leaves. The beast you can hope from smoking raw leaves is a short lived buzz followed by a lasting headache. Vaporizing would be better idea if you have to, but beast of all would be to do some kind of extraction method.

If get a pretty good buzz off the trim that is poking out of the buds. Not the full leaves but the trim. It rolls up nicely mixed with a little bud. Makes a leisurely smoke with a cup of Joe on a cool fall evening. Just smoke like a cigarette. It doesn't give me a headache.

 

[potroast]

Care to share your recipe for cookies? Also, what is the process for making cannabutter?

Well, this is the Harvesting forum, there's another forum for that, Cooking with Cannabis. Check it out, everything you want to know is there.

HTH

 

[starchland]

Ive smoked leaves off of my plant when noone had any weed... gives you a buzz (if your tolerence isn't too high), and it didn't give me a headache.

Of course it's not my preference.

same here...was a shorter high but nice and mellow didnt fuck me up

 

[Ganjagreenthumb]

lol i took sum water leaves off my girls their a month into flowering and put them in a bowl cut them to smitherins and took out all the petolies and rolled the remaning into a couple of balls let them dry out in front of a fan and i just smoked like 2 bowls and i must say im pretty blazed for leafs lol i can't wait to see how good the buds are gonna be

 

[KillerBeeZ]

I've smoked leaves at every stage waiting on the plant to mature lol

they will all give you a high, but the younger the leaves, the less high... would not be so bad except the leaves taste really nasty, the earlier they are the worse they taste.

I've also smoked early buds before they could dry out properly (quick oven drying) while you get more high, it still tastes bad... so it is up to your taste buds. if you can smoke the crap, by all means. What else ya gonna do with leaves aside from tossing them in the compost bin or making mediocre hash?

 

[rmel0622]

just piss in my mouth

 

[Tanis83]

here dry the leaves and use a butane extration.... all you need is a turkey baster, twist tie, coffee filter... 2 bottles of butane... a dish and your swag.....


Just remember it's gas, do it outside... and not while smoking!!!

it boils at 10C, so if you want it to go faster... do what I did... get a small pyrex glass baking dish, and put it inside of another dish with hot water
takes about 10 min to do both bottles.

 

[Hobbes]

I'm growing a strain called Big Laughing by Dr Greenthumb, the sugar leaves are so coated with trichs I put them in a seperate tray from my hash bucket. I let them dry overnight and vaporized them in my Volcano the next day - beautiful taste and a nice little 15 minute laughing high and about an hour of coasting happily. Can't do that with all strains but when you get one it's nice - while the plant ripens you can sample the leaf instead of the bud.

 

[malignant]

i sometimes roll blunts from leaves they get me high, just lingering headache afterwards.

 

[thor420]

yea ive been wonderin the same things. recently went dry an harvest isnt for another few weeks. i took alotta leaves that i had previously trimmed. they dried out in a box an at first i loaded a couple bowls. bout 4 bowls an i was feelin ok not really effective. later on i rolled a joint with the dried crushed leaves. lil bit of a bad taste but trust me theres alot worse out there. afterwards i was feelin the onset of sumthin. so i rolled another one. now i can positively say i am reasonably high. the same as mabye smoking a joint among three friends or so. That being said if a 2 joints got me between 1/3 an 1/2 joint high, an guessing that the weed i get is about 10-12% thc content (guesstimate) this proposes a range from 1 1/2%-to3% thc in leaves. these should be taken as estimates. im sure there are papers out there which would give more accurate details.
If your broke an need to toke if you really gotta those leaves will smoke

 

[Hobbes]

***Double Post***

I swear my post wasn't up there last time I looked.

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[SweetTooth36]

Yummmm Cannabutter! Made brownies outta 2 oz of good bud yesterday after freezing it for a day... Brownies were beyond killer. Had me glued to the couch all day haha