Make Cannabis Butter with your Trimmings!

So you just harvested your crop, and you have all this extra plant matter laying around. What do you do with it? You can throw it away, OR you can make cannabutter! Cannabis butter is butter that has all the extracted THC and other cannabinoids from marijuana and is great for edible purposes. Cannabutter provides a great body high while alleviating pain and other symptoms. You can make it from trim or from the marijuana bud itself.

This video from the Wonderful World of Cannabis shows you how to make delicious cannabutter with your trim (extra leaf matter)  from the bud. You can also use the actual bud, but you don't have to use as much as you would with trim just because there is more THC in the bud than the trim.

Make fantastic brownies with cannabis!

SUPPLIES NEEDED:
• A fine mesh strainer.
• Baking pan.
• Your favorite store brand brownie mix that uses oil (not butter).
• Measuring cup.
• Cooking oil.
• Whatever ingredients your brownie mix you chose calls for.
• 4-15 grams of crushed dried marijuana.

1. The first step to making your brownies is to make your cannabis oil. You will mix this oil into the brownie mix along with the other ingredients it calls for (eggs, oil and mix). If the mix calls for 1 1/4 cup of oil, then pour that amount (or whatever amount that is needed) into a pot over a stove and put the heat on low. You want the oil to heat up to a slow simmer (few bubbles coming up).

2.Once the oil is heated to a simmer, pour your dried crushed herb into the oil. Stir occasionally and let it cook for 30-45 minutes. If you simmer it longer, more THC will be extracted making your oil more potent.

3. Use this type of strainer to separate the oil and cooked plant matter.
The herb should look brown indicating that it's been cooked and the essential ingredients have been extracted correctly. With your fine mesh strainer, put it over your measuring cup. Pour the pot of oil and herb over the strainer to filter the cooked plant matter and the actual oil.

4. After the oil has been thoroughly strained, mix it with the other ingredients that the brownie mix calls for and mix it well. Make sure the mix is thick and creamy, not runny.

5. Use a pan like this. You can also use glass pans and square pans.

Pour your mix into a baking pan and put it in the oven. Most brownie mixes call for the oven to be at least 350 degrees Fahrenheit and to let them bake for at least 15 minutes. Whatever you brownie mix dictates on the box, follow those directions.

6. After you followed your mix's directions, pull the brownies out, let cool and enjoy.

TIPS:

• You don't have to use oil to make these kind of brownies. You can use brownies that require butter instead of oil and use cannabutter. This tutorial is for the brownies that call for a oil in its mix.

(All photos in this article are from images.google.com)