MRB041, you are right, you can only disolve a certain amount of THC into the butter, therefore if you were going to use an ounce, then you'd have to make a whole lot of brownies or tou are going to waste most of the bud you filter out of the butter. The recipe that I use originally calls for only an 1/8 of good quality buds, but I doubled it. They are very potent. You will definately be fine with just a 1/4 in it. I don't see how anyone can eat space cakes or THC brownies and not get high. A gram of buds in a lot of THC to have in your bidy. Smoking it wastes so much in resin, second hand smoke, and exhaled smoke.