Marijuana tea
Can marijuana leaves be boiled to make a tea? Will I get the magical properties that I am looking for? I am looking for a chamomile type of relaxation.Schmokin,
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Marijuana leaves can be boiled to make a weak tea. Even the leaves of immature plants have a slight effect. However, the leaves of mature plants have a stronger effect.
THC is only very slightly soluble in boiling water. Adding either some alcohol or some oil to the mix will help the THC dissolve. An ounce of whole milk or a half ounce of hard liquor to a cup of boiling water increases the tea's potency quite a bit. A chai-type drink, made with marijuana leaves, spices, butter and milk would dissolve even more of the THC.
Making tea by just boiling the leaves will not release as much psychoactive THC. Since marijuana's pigments and terpenoids ? the components responsible for its flavor ? are water soluble, this tea looks and smells more promising than its effect will be. However, these non-cannabinoids may also have medicinal properties, as could other water-solubles.
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Weed tea
I'm trying a tea made from stems, leaf and buds ground up, 2% milk, dark rum, a slice of butter, slice of ginger and a touch of honey. as it's simmering/lightly boiling I held my face over to catch the steam for a while. (I have laryngitis and can't smoke). I wanted the steam for clearing up my sinus' however 10 minutes after inhaling the steam I feel a bit light headed. Is it possible to absorb the THC from the steam?
Weed tea
Hey,
I have never made weed tea, but I've smoked with a vapourizer which is steam and made brownies. I think it would be possible for you to get high off the vapour if you were boiling the marijuana at a high enough temperature. Wikipedia says:
"When one considers that there are at least 60 pharmacologically-active compounds in cannabis and that the aromatic terpenoids begin to vaporize at 126 °C, but the more bio-active cannabidiol (CBD), Cannabinol (CBN), and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) do not vaporize until near their respective flash points: CBD 206.3 °C[6], CBN 212.7 °C[7], THC 149.3 °C)[8] then it becomes apparent that the only way to get a full spectrum vapor inhalation is to extract and deliver rapidly from a small sample at a time."
Water boils at 100 C so its not really possible for the water to get hotter then that unless the pressure is much higher, but that doesn't happen to a large degree in a kettle or stove pot. The thing is rum, butter, and honey all boil at temperatures higher then 100 C. For example olive oil will not start to boil until around 300 C. Butter, rum and milk also both have higher boiling points then water. The boiling points for these products have a range though because they are made from mixtures of fat, water, proteins and other stuff. So if the liquid mixture you were boiling reached over 150 C then I think its possible you felt the effects of the cannabis from the steam.
One thing though is that I'm pretty sure the point of boiling the marijuana in butter is to get the THC to absorb into the butter (or whatever mixture it is) so that it doesn't escape into steam, therefore making your brownies/tea less potent. That would mean some of the cannabis was escaping the tea you were making.
I hope that helped a little, or that you get this answer. I'm interested to try making some tea soon. Also if you cannot inhale smoke because of you laryngitis you could possibly try using a high quality vapourizer (such as a Volcano) since vapour is not the same as smoke. Studies show that inhaling the vapour is much less harmful then cannabis smoke from combustion. But, I`m not a doctor or anything, so I would ask yours first to make sure, or at least do some research.
Peace.
Coconut milk
I am wondering if coconut or soy milk have enough soluble fat to make an effective vegan non alcoholic THC drink?
no
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