Weed Tea. Am i doin this right?

[PurplePixieManda]

You are wasting good bud if you are putting it into water... I simply can't stand by and let this happen, lol, so I'll share with you a method that worked for me. I got the recipe off erowid.org, I think, a few years ago. Here's how I did it:

I basically took 1 cup of either whole or 2% milk, put a paper towel over the top of the mug, and heated it up in the microwave at 30 second intervals, checking between intervals to make sure the milk didn't bubble over, until it was steaming hot. (steaming hot, meaning before it boils: if the milk boils, the thc drawn from the bud will evaporate into the air, and a good amount of thc will be lost.) Then I poured the hot milk over a good nickel's worth (about four or five grams) of broken up buds and stems, and let it steep for five minutes, put the cup back in and let it heat some more, and then let it steep again; I repeated this a few times until the milk had a very distinct green tint. When it was done, I let it cool a bit and sipped on it... it had me extremely lit in about fifteen minutes!!! It does not taste very good alone...I recommend using the bud milk to make hot cocoa, or to put in coffee.. that masks the bitterness pretty well, with a bit of sugar, of course. Enjoy, I hope it works for you.

[PurplePixieManda]

Heh heh, posting this made me want to make the tea it again...so I did. It doesn't work in fifteen minutes....it works instantly. :stoned:

[maybalance192]

I know that we have some wise and knowledgable people in our community, so why don't someone (with allot of BUD), do controlled experiments?
That way, the sceptism will be gone and we'll have at least FACTS.
Like do the Butter thing, then do the milk thing, then do the water and milk or just milk alone? Personally I don't know and I rather smoke it anyways.

[joyfuldinosaur]

I would reccomend using whole milk instead of skim or 1%/2% if you really want to do that. I think you would have to cook the weed in the milk first, in order to get out the thc, and then add water. I think that if the weed gets wet, then the fat can't get to it and extract all the yummy thc goodness.

[Euphoric7]

Try mixing it with green, black, or white tea too.

[Storm Crow]

THC is soluble in oil or alcohol. Tea does not get the THC into you. However, there are more cannabinoids in cannabis than THC. I doubt it will get you high, but if you are in pain, it may work. Read the following articles.

Cannabis tea revisited: A systematic evaluation
Cannabis tea revisited: a systematic evaluation of...[J Ethnopharmacol. 2007] - PubMed Result

*Cuppa Gives A Better 'ooh'
Cuppa Gives A Better 'ooh': The Hempire - [cannabis, uk]

*With the use of cannabis tea only a small proportion of THC in the cannabis is ingested
Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Cannabis als Medizin


- Granny:hippy:

[420_24/7]

This thread was started in 04, resurrected in 05, resurrected again in 06, and is now alive again.

Weird how things happen.

[TranceTHC420]

weed tea lmao that is really gay .. thc does not dissolve in water! it will just cling to your weed... just make some cannabis butter or make some hash if you don't want to smoke the weed

THC is soluble in oil or alcohol. Tea does not get the THC into you. However, there are more cannabinoids in cannabis than THC. I doubt it will get you high, but if you are in pain, it may work.

Though THC is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, it possesses more than 400 chemicals, 60 of which (including THC) are cannabinoids. Cannabis plants also contain choline, eugenol, guaicacol and piperidine.

While you are correct that THC is not water soluble, it is possible that the other cannabinoids are indeed just that. So a high can still occur.

It also might work to soak the 'tea bag' in a shot of liquor (clear preferred?) then add hot water to extract anything else in the plant.
I would think to let time pass before adding the water.

I have never tried tea with alcohol, but weed tea tastes delicious and I did get a 'high'. I will try it with alcohol soon.

The More You Know...
:jointsmile::hippy:

[Opie Yutts]

I've been researching tinctures and happened to find a few things about teas as well. I've never made it but many people have. Don't let people tell you it can't be done. The key is something oily or fatty in the tea. Add milk, butter or whatever, but water alone will likely do nothing. The good stuff actually ends up on top of the water, like an oil slick. Drinking the rest of the tea will do nothing except make the stuff taste better. Also don't let people tell you not to waste good bud on tea. Like everything else you do with weed, crap in = crap out. Good stuff in = success. Stems have virtually none of the chemicals we desire.

Just my 2 cents, but the point is many people do it, and do it well. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done, or it's a waste of time.

[flyingimam]

yeah oppy is right... THC is fat soluble...

i know half a pound of stems and a lil shake didnt do anything to 2 cups of water used for tea but altered the taste a lil bit and chnaged the color of water into river green!!!!! no psych effects after consumption was reported neither any stomach problems.


the "tea" is just a name... essentially its a weed drink based on some fatty/oily substance or an alcoholic beverage... it has nothing to do with idea of brewing marijuana in water as to have a a "mj tea"