Contrary to what you might think, cooking with cannabis doesn’t mean that you will be stirring plant matter into your dish (not usually at least). When we say “cooking with cannabis” we are talking about using an everyday item in your dish that has been infused with cannabinoids, which are the active ingredients in cannabis that produce the healing and psychotropic effects most people are looking for.
This “everyday item” is usually something that contains a lot of fat, like oil or butter, because the THC molecules readily attach to fat, which is easily metabolized by your body. In other words, we are going to take the THC out of the cannabis, attach it to millions of fat molecules, and let it hitch a ride into your blood stream by way of your digestive system and your liver. Sound like fun? Good because it is.
Since the process of cooking with cannabis usually means infusing that cannabis into something else first then we need to know what our end-product is going to be before we decide on an infusion medium. Some of the mediums that can be infused with cannabis include butter, olive oil, coconut oil, canola oil, corn syrup, alcohol, vegetable glycerin and more!
Once you have infused your cannabis into a delivery medium then it becomes pretty obvious how versatile this infusion can be. The items that are infused can be used in nearly any recipe you would ordinarily use them in. For example, cannabis-infused olive oil can be used as in pasta, salad dressings, baked dishes, savory meals or any other number of dishes that you would normally use olive oil in.
Have you ever wondered how edibles manufacturers infuse candy with cannabis? Or maybe you are looking for an easy-to-make medical tincture that you can take on a daily basis. When you infuse vegetable glycerin with cannabis you get a safe method of creating a tincture that you can make …
Cannabis infused coconut oil is one of the best and most potent methods of making cannabis infused oils. If you are familiar with making cannabutter, this is a little different because you are infusing the coconut oil with cannabis and you won’t have the water “buffer” to keep …
When getting started with edibles, infusing canola oil with cannabis is an easy way to get the most out of your product. When you choose to medicate with an edible, you’re guaranteed to experience different effects from more traditional forms of ingesting marijuana, like inhaling. These effects last …
Cooking with Cannabis is a great way to ingest the plant without having to smoke it. Cannabis infused butter, also known as cannabutter, is the easiest way to create edibles, although making it for the first time may be a bit difficult. If you’re not familiar with decarboxylation, …
For thousands and thousands of years the human race has used the cannabis plant to treat everything from menstrual cramps to leprosy. In 2900 BC the Chinese emperor Fu Hsi said the plant possessed “both yin and yang”. Ancient Egyptians used marijuana to treat glaucoma and inflammation. In Greece they used …
