Marijuana Cooking

The traditional method of eating marijuana is to cook it in a brownie, especially when it is in the form of hashish, though it can be used in any number of things.

The recommended method of eating marijuana is to sauté it in butter or margarine over medium heat, then to strain the remaining solids out and use the butter to cook with.

One can use this marijuana butter to make brownies, cook vegetables, or however else one might use butter to cook with, one can even spread it on a slice of bread. Many people will mix the the residual solids in with whatever they are cooking in hopes of making use of whatever cannabanoids might still be in them. A typical ratio for making the marijuana butter is one stick of butter to one eighth of an ounce of marijuana, and headed for fifteen to twenty minutes.

One may extract the active ingredients from marijuana using alcohol and then use this tincture to make a potent drink. The highest proof alcohol available should be used, preferably 190 proof grain alcohol, since the water in the alcohol will dissolve other chemicals in the marijuana that one wishes to avoid.

Some suggest soaking the grass in warm water for a period to remove those chemicals but that presents a whole host of other and is not really recommended. One may simply place the marijuana into a bottle of grain alcohol and let the cannabanoids leach out, but this takes 2-3 weeks of time.

A faster method is to heat the alcohol to sub-boiling and stir in the marijuana. Great deal of care should be taken if this method is chosen as the alcohol is highly flammable. The resulting tincture, often called "Green Dragon", is a light to emerald green liquid, which can be drunk straight, but this is not recommended. Highly lauded is a drink of 3 parts lemon lime soda, 1 part green dragon and a dollop of honey served over ice.