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Cannabutter

by Clint

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Cannabutter is an oil/fat/butter based solution which has been infused with cannabinoids. This term was coined by Adam Gottlieb in his book "The Art and Science of Cooking with Cannabis"..

Cannabutter can be used just like butter, or baked into anything that would require butter, such as brownies or cake, to create a tasty and blasting treat, or even mixed with honey on your finger! The flavor and color of the oil or butter used vary depending on the method used.

Cannabutter is intoxicating but the high from ingested cannabis (like cannabutter or foods containing it) is somewhat different than that obtained by smoking: It is much slower to begin and lasts much longer, due to the time it takes to digest the fats (compared to the near instantaneous absorbtion of smoke in the lungs).

The Cannabutter is produced by heating the raw cannabis along with the oil or butter and allowing the canabanoids (THC and others) to bond with the fat. The exact procedure for this varies greatly:

Methods

One method is just to fry the weed/hash with the butter in a frying pan.

Another is to heat the butter with the weed in the microwave for a few minutes on low power.

And here is a more sophisticated method suggested by Adam Gottlieb in his book:

Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil, then put a small amount of butter in the water. The butter quickly melts and mixes in with the water because the whole mixture is at a rolling boil.

Put the grass in and boil it (separate all the seeds first of course). Now all the grass is rolling around with the water and butter, and get this: the cannabinoids dissolve into the butter, while most of the shit and bad flavors dissolve into the water. Cook the grass while stirring for about half an hour (don't go watching TV now, ya stoner!), and now your kitchen will really be smelling incriminating. Strain out the spent plant matter, squeeze all the juice out of it, and put the liquid in the fridge.

A few hours later, the mixture is cool enough and the cannabutter has solidified on the surface. It looks kind of scummy, but its just enchanted butter. Take it out and keep it in a bowl or a jar. Throw the grass-nasty water out.

Although this method takes longer than just frying the shit, it has several advantages:

As explained above, the nasty shit is separated and removed from the fun shit.
You can make stronger cannabutter than by saute-ing, because you can cook more grass in the same amount of butter, due to the extra volume of the water.
There is no danger of burning the precious, price-inflated, hard and dangerous to obtain herb, as there is when you saute, because the water keeps the whole mixture at boiling temperature!

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