A cannabis tincture is an alcoholic cannabis concentrate. This concentrate is usually stored in a small bottle with a dropper. This is to ensure accuracy when dosing. Cannabis infused tinctures can be taken orally, or they can be used to create cannabis sugar and beverages. A busy schedule doesn’t always allow for a full cannabis extraction process. Like a ready-made meal, this is a quick and easy way to make a medicinal tincture extraction.
Typically, a weed tincture takes weeks to infuse. This process involves the slow marriage of cannabis with high proof alcohol. This method gives your tincture a higher potency. It also enables you to strip all THC and CBD from your plant material up to a 100%. Not to worry, this faster method allows you to strip all of the material while saving time! A lot of time, that is. Start to finish, this recipe is designed to take only one hour!
Of course, whether or not you use a cannabis tincture, smoke weed, or dab is all about personal preference. If you’re wondering what the benefits of using a tincture might be, let us lay out some information for you. Firstly, tinctures are a lot less hassle once they are ready to be used. The compact storage and mobility of a tincture makes it an easier method of consuming cannabis. Secondly, due to the dropper, it is much easier to regulate how much of the infusion you are taking. Lastly, when you administer the tincture sublingually, the infusion reaches the brain rapidly. Thusly, you can achieve your ultimate goal a lot faster.
Follow these simple steps on how to make your tincture. Remember, you can use this tincture to make cannabis sugar or any other weed edible. Once your tincture is ready, it is time to make some weed edible recipes from it. Click here to see our cannabis cookbook for more than 50 recipes and infusions!
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Does one decarbonate fresh from the garden or already dried product? I followed a recipe to decarbonate and it was destroyed, if the product is already dried do I still have to dry out in the oven?
The recipe is basic and been done for years, although one thing is definitely wrong. It’s posted that at the end of the recipe you have 1 cup of tincture containing 2800 mg of THC .. that’s literally impossible to do if you only start with an ounce.
Yes, an ounce weighs 28 grams (28.35, but who’s counting) that would in total be 2800 mg, so unless that ounce you started with was a crystallized trichome there is no way your bud is 100% THC. On average cannabis ranges from 15-20% THC, it can be much higher depending on the quality, like from a dispensary, but we’re just going to use the average.
So, basically, if you start with an ounce and estimate your bud to be 20% THC then for 1 ounce is 28*20= 560mg THC. 1 cup is about 237 milliliters, so if get a dropper you could relatively accurately dose your products with 2mg THC/ mL of tincture.
28 gram is 28 thousand mg (28000)
If 10% is THC that means you would end up with 2800mg in your tincture
Step 7.
Why not evaluate the 100% extraction by drying and smoking remaining herb?
I only work with Kief. Do you still need to decarb it before using it to infuse?
If you’re looking for psychoactive effects, then yes. Decarboxylation is 99% necessary to feel the euphoria of eaten cannabis.
Just a question
If you cook of the solvent doesnt that make it FECO and not tincture?
Can I use a sous vide instead of a slow cooker? I love the sous vide for my butter and coconut oil infusion.
Hi, Using MCT Oil how do I make canna sugar?
Just few days before i was thinking tincture and cbd are same, but both are different. Thanks for the article…
Does nobody read the comments before asking the same question??
Readiung the comments, I think most of the folks are pretty friggin high. I grew up in the Cheech & Chong era (“Oh wow, man, far out!”), and at 62, I’m fine with a 6-pack and a joint. Getting stoned just for the sake of being stoned…if you’re too burnt out to follow a simple recipe, well hopefully, you’re not an airline traffic controller or a neurosurgeon. I love weed, though, and can truthfully say that, while I’ve been in fights with booze-swilling folks, I never got in a fight with a stoner!