
Heating your herb at 240✯ for an hour will decarb your cannabis so that it is ready to use in an infusion. The boiling temperature for THC is 314✯, and heating your cannabis too high for too long will result in lowered potency as THC converts to CBN, or is destroyed completely. Toasting ground cannabis on a baking sheet in the oven at 240✯ for an hour will activate the THC.ĭecarboxylation, through heating or drying your cannabis, is a chemical reaction that converts THCa into THC. That analysis will reveal which method is most efficient at using heat to convert THCa (a non-psychoactive form of the drug found in raw marijuana) into psychoactive THC, giving you the most bang for your buck and ensuring that none of your precious weed gets wasted. Which method of infusing cannabis into butter works for you?Īiming to dispel the myths and make with the science, I enlisted two dedicated cannabis testing laboratories to analyze the finished samples using high-pressure liquid chromatography to determine their cannabinoid profiles. To find out, I took butters into my own hands by testing four top methods side-by-side using the same basic ingredients in each batch.
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As the author of The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook, I’ve been approached by people touting literally dozens of different recipes for “the ultimate cannabutter,” each promising to produce the most potent, tasteless, scentless, product possible.Įver wondered how to make cannabutter? I’ve tried out many of these recipes, and they all work. Naturally, every cannabis chef and home cook believes their own method for making cannabutter works the best (or they would use another method). Once you infuse butter with THC, it can then be added to any number of recipes to make them magically delicious. Traditionally, cannabutter is the basis for marijuana cookery.
