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Weed Butter Recipe

First, you’ll need to melt the butter slowly on low heat. Do this using a double boiler or two pots, as instructed above. Add a little water to your melting butter mixture—a half cup or so—to keep the mixture from ‘burning’ as you cook it with the weed. Once the butter has melted, you can [...]

What is weed butter and how can I use it?

What is weed butter? Weed butter, also called marijuana butter and cannabis butter, is a butter based solution infused with cannabinoids. Weed butter is essentially a mixture of butter and cannabinoids, and not a “real” butter made from raw ingredients. Unlike similar ‘weed’ foods, weed butter is usually used as a condiment, sauce or ingredient, [...]

How do you make edibles from synthetic cannabinoids?

Well, I’d venture to guess that one of the more effective ways would be to heat/dissolve the synthetic cannabinoid in butter, much the same as making weedbutter. Now what dosages, recipies and experiences can this community come up with to answer this canna-question? Will synthetic cannabinoids be used to make the majority of cannabutter edibles [...]

Another new CANNABUTTER recipe!

The weed butter made with this recipe is going to be more potent, because the Tetrahydrocannabinol is being dissolved into the clarified butter, but the milkfat isn’t taking up any extra space or adding extra calories. The clarification process used to make this cannabutter gives the finished products a much better life on the shelf because it lacks the milkfat.

Here’s a new Weed Butter Recipe for maximum potency.

1 pound of Butter / 100 Grams Dried Weed Leaf or finely ground up buds

- Add Marijuana Leaves/Bud to the pot.
- Crush and break the marijuana leaves/use a Coffee Grinder or get your fingers sticky.
- Add 7-10 cups of water

Making Weed butter from Vaped weed

… I will be making a write up on my upcoming experience of making vaped weed into weed butter by cooking with half butter half water. I just bought a quarter pound of vaped weed from my local San Diego Marijuana dispensary, “We The People”….

Preparing Flavored Ghee

“Though butter is an obvious choice for serving at the table and for baking, it cannot be used on the stove for most sauteing or frying. This is because it is composed of about 80 percent pure butterfat, 18 percent water and 2 percent protein solids, and above 250 degrees F (120 degrees C) the [...]

The Chemistry of Cannabutter

Cannabis contains hundreds of related compounds referred to as “cannabinoids,” in 1970 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was identified as the only significantly psychoactive compound. In the live plant, cannabinoids are believed to be present in their carboxylated acid forms, which are not psychoactive. The heat present while smoking cannabis decarboxylates the THC, making it biologically active. A [...]