Drying and curing for eatables

[fishstix]

I have a question about if I need to dry and cure the cannabis plant if I am going to be cooking it and capsulizing it for ingestion. Or if a dehydrator will work. I know most smoke so there is the taste issue which does not apply to my situation. any help with this would be great

Thanks

[killerweed420]

It helps to fry it just to make it easier to work with. I like to dry it in my oven at the lowest temp for about 30 minutes. Then run it through a coffee grinder to powder it and store it in plastic containers.