The Cannabis Lifestyle
To Grow Or Not To Grow
Part Four/Four-Part Series: Making Cannabis Infused Foods By Alex Robles Well my fellow cannabis enthusiasts, it looks like our time together here at “To Grow or not To Grow” is coming to an end. It’s been a fun time for me and I hope this series helped you understand cannabis a little better. Before we say good-bye, let’s do one more fun thing with our beautiful home-grown cannabis. Let’s make some cannabis infused foods.
DOSING MATH The formula below is the easiest way I know to explain how much THC is in one cup of infused butter/oil. 1 gram of cannabis = 1000 milligrams if the cannabis has 25 percent THC
25percent of 1000 milligrams is 250 milligrams, i.e., 3.6g (⅛ We understand how to cook with cannabis better today oz) of cannabis = 3600 milligrams than we did 25 years ago. Back then, it was more like wizardry than science if you could make a good batch of 25percent THC of 3600 = 900 mg THC (3,600 x 25percent= edibles that weren’t too strong. Luckily we now live in the 900) future and the home chef can get pretty sophisticated with cannabis. Infused into 1 cup (8 oz) of butter, the butter will now have 900 mg of THC. Before we get into cooking, I want to encourage you to have a high CBD tincture on hand when you’re eating food When you use 1/2 cup of that butter (4oz) to make 36 infused with THC. CBD will help dampen the intoxicating cookies, then that batch will have 450 milligrams of THC. effects of THC. t’s easy to overdo it and forget when we’re Divide 450 mg by the number of cookies. For 36 cookies eating THC in delicious food. CBD won’t bring you to there will be about 12.5 milligrams of THC in each cookie. “sober,” but it will help lessen that “high” feeling. Also, THC that’s passed through our liver into our bloodstream is going DECARBOXYLATION: to be more potent and intoxicating (11-hydroxy-THC) than WHAT IS IT AND WHY DO WE NEED TO DO IT? smoked THC. Always double check your math. Every cannabinoid molecule made by the cannabis plant starts its life with an extra carboxylic acid ring attached to the end. This means that in the raw plant THC is first THCA and CBD is first CBDA and so on for all the cannabinoids. HCA is non-intoxicating and won’t give us that euphoric high 20 Cannabis by the Sea Winter 2021
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