Marijuana Tea

[Evil Hippie]

Anyone have a recipe for marijuana tea they'd like to share?

[delta9]

I don't like making teas, so much. Especially not from straight bud - better to make hashish, oil, or tincture.

The thing is, water can't really extract any THC or THCV from the marijuana, at least not very efficiently, so you're going to be doing this more for the taste......

I recommend a cup of hot water, and leaf matter in a teabag, if you're going to do it at all. But I don't really recommend it, at all, either :P.

[longhairedhippiechic]

what I was told about cookin with mary jane is you need to activate the, (thc) with heat. So if somehow you can get it to smoke while you drinking it, then it would probably get you high. Like if you put weed in brownies, you have to activate the smoke. But if your just doing it for taste and you dont want to get high off it, it would be a waste because it would taste bad and it would be a waste of weed. If you do try it, tell me what happends????????

[delta9]

Haha, no it's not that heat "activates" it so much. You also need a substance to extract it into. That's why you make brownies, first you extract the THC into CannaButter. Basically, THC is insoluable in water, so if you heat it in water, you're just going to RELEASE the THC, and there will be nothing there to CATCH it - so you're just wasting your time and your bud.

[Evil Hippie]

THC is fat soluble right? So what would would happen if i put some weed in a little butter, or oil and microwaved it? Do you think it would extract the THC well? Enough to get you high?

[Evil Hippie]

Whow, that was weird, you just kind of answered my question before i asked it. we posted those at the exact same minute!

[delta9]

Thing is, you need *weight* or it's just not going to be worth it. Anyway, simply googling for marijuana butter (http://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+butter) will give you a plethora of recipes. To save you some time, I'll quote from the first one:

Taken from here (http://www.drugs-plaza.com/recipescannabisbutterlong.htm):
The most convenient way to use and store marijuana for cooking is to make marijuana butter, which can be cut into pieces and ziploc bagged for freezing and later used in cooking of all kinds.Here is the basic recipe:

1 lb. of butter (no margarin)

1/2 ounce of marijuana BUD flour
(or 1 ounce of shake flour or 2 ounces of leaf flour)

Dry bud, leaf or shake can be floured by using a coffee grinder, pepper grinder or blender. Place powdered marijuana and butter in crockpot. It is convenient to cook 3 or 4 pounds of butter at one time in a standard size crockpot. However, for smaller amounts, small crockpots are available for cooking only one pound of butter, or less.

Heat butter and marijuana flour together in the crockpot on the lowest setting for 24 hours. When cool enough to handle, pour through the double layer of cheesecloth lined strainer into the large bowl. Twist pulp in the double layer of cheesecloth to get out all the liquid butter you can. Yummie..... pour into ceramic or glass dish for cooling. Refrigerate to quicken cooling. When cool cut into large pieces, place green butter in large ziploc bag for freezing.

NOTE: it is a tradition to use the lowest grades of leaf or shake for baking and save the bud for smoking. However, experience has revised our view of baking and eating therapy. Now we use only high-grade indica leaf from the colas of plants, or dry bud of the best quality we can obtain. The quality, strength and endurance of the cannabis you use in your baking will come through in the effects experienced with eating therapy. Use only 1 ounce of shake flour or 1/2 ounce of bud flour per lb. butter, since these will be stronger than leaf. Amounts are approximate, since much is determined by the variance in strength of the cannabis used, as well as the strength of effect you wish to achieve. Experiment.

Now you have a quantity of marijuana butter. It will keep a long time in the freezer and you can use it just as you would use any butter in any recipe for cookies, brownies, muffins, gingerbread, spicecake, zucchini bread, banana nut loaf, pie, or recipes of all kinds, or enjoy it straight, in tiny amounts (approximately 1 tsp. per dose) on your bagel or toast, on your pancakes or with your eggs and English muffin. Use your imagination!

[Evil Hippie]

Sounds good, but there's no way I could make that much. Oh well.

[delta9]

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