Weed tea?

[oaktree]

I'm not a normal tea drinker but i'd be willing to try and make some weed tea. Now to me any tea with no sugar, or lemon or honey taste nasty i guess my pallet just isn't refined enough. My question is a) does anyone know a good way to make weed tea, and b) does anyone know how to make it taste good and c) can you make weed ice tea? Thank you for any help you can give, i'd appreciate it.

Peace

 

[pray4pistils]

mmm... doubt it

mmm... doubt it

I suspect that this won't work because MJ's pschoactive compounds aren't water soluable. If they were smoking a bong would be pointless but drinking the water would knock your socks off. The stuff is fat soluable, however, so one could probably make some decent coffee out of it. I'm no chemist or food scientist, but this is what my hunch leads to.

 

[oaktree]

yea thats what i was worried about but i though i heard of people making weed tea, but maybe they we're just wasting their weed. Well if it is possible i'd still like to know how to do it. maybe just put some weed butter in some ice tea haha. Thanks pray4pistils for your help i fear you may be right.

 

[lala124]

It works it you simmer it on low low heat for 15 minutes in milk with a little heavy cream added for fat content. THC Milk is as close as your gonna get unless you plan to make Long Island Iced Tea.

 

[Papulz]

dude oaktree!! come on with the gooballs and now this.. i dont wanna bust any balls but try using that search function my man. there are moderately extensive threads on this.

 

[oaktree]

Yea sorry about that papulz

lala124 thanks for the help, i'll check the milk infused thc thread for that.

Peace

 

[cephas333]

Let someone who has experienced it tell you......boil some water, pour it in a cup and put your tea(weed) and honey in the water and let it sit for about and hour, then drink it.....be warned!!!.....the effects won't show up immediately but after about an hour later, you will start to notice that you have a serious buzz.....then an hour after that that's when the TERROR begins....I swear I was obliterated, like an overdose for about 8 hours then I was finally able to go to sleep.....I woke up the next morning, had breakfast and the high kicked in all over again...I wouldn't recommend using tea unless you like being f'd up to the point you need to go to the hospital....so be warned.

 

[Guest423]

lol...thats a good one son

 

[Guest]

This is from Cannabis Compassion Corner website (www.compassioncorner.org) hope it helps you.


Well,
Finally figured out this thing for our house. Thanks to Dr Jay Cavenaugh who got me on the track. It is a decoction/tisane combination of cured and fermented cannabis.

Wish I could have shared the result with him and his family.

This preparation process is a cross between tobacco, leaf tea and forage curing. It took alot of work but it's SO worth it. This is good for people who don't like the alcohol based brown liquid extracts. Really good for the sick with gut and nausea problems who can't or don't want to smoke. Some of our older friends or people who need to medicate at intervals thru out the day inconspicuously use this. Helps so much with mouth injuries such as radiation burns too. Good to gargle too.

edit: The old fashioned term is "Sipping Waters". Use it warm or cold, mixed in another liquid or straight. You sip it allowing it to rest on the flesh in your mouth so the active ingredients can be absorbed first then you swallow it. You get the benefits of smoking and eating. For people who cant' eat or swallow this is very helpful. Just have them hold a little (tsp?) in their mouth, then spit it out, repeating as wanted. This can also be used topically in a bath or on a compress as well as as in enema fluid.

The additional benefit is the anti inflammatory effects extracted from the foliage.

The result is a light yellow (color varies slightly with strain) liquid with a slight fragrance of the green and middle notes (as in perfume) of your strain. This is very portable and you can add it to your favorite libation. The dose is 1 tblspn=1 hit for a 200# person. The fresh decoction lasts only a few days. Add 1/4 tsp ascorbic acid (vit C)per pint of your liquid to store in fridge for up to 1 week.

You can seal to store indefinitely.

It starts in the garden. Don't use too much nitrogen or phosphorus. Give a little molasses at the end of blooming, a day or so before you harvest. Protect your plant with row cover cloth as it matures to prevent dust, pollution and so on from attaching to the resin.

Indoor grow plants and deep shade grown plants don't have a leaf cuticle developed well enough for the ferment. You solve this as well as the over fertilizing and bud that needs to be cleaned up by a full 7 day water curing.

Water cure removes some of the smell, so can be a good thing for what you need, adjust for the higher concentration material tho.

Hang your plant with the fan leaves on and dry. The extra leaf on while drying helps finish the plant for this process.

Next, manicure very clean, dry, cure and ferment(NOT mold).

To do the jar cure for this, once you have achieved proper regular dryness, take 2 Q-tips, dip one end in Ever Clear, ISO(best) or vodka and put it in your quart jar. This is your "redneck humidifier", the dry part soaks up and releases moisture, the alcohol inhibits the mold and low bacteria but allows the ferment to bloom. If it's a pint jar, use 1 Q-tip. Close up, store in a cool dry dark place for about 2 months. Check occasionally. You are looking for a slight "ripe bannana" smell, refresh the Q-Tip if needed. This is the ferment you want, double check for mold. After doing this for awhile you will develop the ability to look rather open the jar to smell.

Check the edges of your jar and clean very well. Use ISO to wipe down and get all resin off. Note: If there is resin on the jar edge it can fool you that you have a seal. Put new seal on. Warm to 180 degrees F (no less, more affects flavor but not potency) in an oven, setting your jars in a bain marie at room temperature to start. You want the heat to surround and come up gradually so don't do this on the stove top unless you know how to do this right. Screw the ring on loosely, remove jar from water bath. Let cool out of draft, with out moving the jar. As the jar cools your seal will set and you will usually hear a metalic "pop", tighten ring.

If it doesn't seal (rare but it can happen), try again with a fresh seal. Pay attention that you have to get the jar AND contents to temperature. The time it takes depends on your altitude, how much is in the jar and so on, so take the temperature of the water bath. This is the part you have to teach yourself.

Now let 'er work.
Wrap your jars in brown paper or something to exclude light, I like a man's tube sock because it cushions it too. Store in a cool place at least 3 months. Some of what happens is the cuticle of the leaf is changed, the crystally quality that hurts your throat and guts is changed and softened. It is an awesome smoke as well. This was the really hard part in this, protecting the quality of the smoke. It happens this process actually improves it.

Now to prepare decoction/tisane:
Check when you open the jar check that your strain fragrance is there with the slight ripe bannana smell. If it has changed color, smells offensive or has mold, and so on don't use it. Haven't had this happen yet, but it sure could so watch for it.

Take an amount you use for yourself to roll a joint, or measure 1 tblspn. No need to grind but break up and take out big stems. Best and strongest potency is to put it thru an expresso maker, making 1 cup of liquid. Yes, you can make it really strong by adding more bud, do it this way first for reference tho. I have a single serving maker that sets on the stove top that I then store in the fridge with no more than a good scalding rinse in water so as to protect my cure that develops very nicely. (you can smoke THIS as oil). To make as a tea without the expresso maker, pour boiling water over, allow to steep 3 to 5 minutes covered.

If you make it as tea you can use material again up to 2 more times with pretty equal potency but it differs with strain and I don't yet know why. If you use the expresso maker you really do get all the active part the first time. You can dry and save the spent bud as you would for your low grade trim.

Start out slowly. Take 1 tblspn every 20 to 30 minutes to see how it works for you. It can sneak up on you. It works a little faster than eating and a little slower than smoking. It starts absorbing thru the skin in your mouth as well as your gut. People who can't swallow can put a bit (tsp?)it in their mouth, swish and hold it then spit it out. If allergy prone it's a good idea to check it for yourself.

You can make tea bags up with an extra process if you want.

With Love.
From "Grammy Nan's" kitchen to yours.

Daisy

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OK, Update on the decoction/tisane....

We dialed in a faster recipe to make this. The trade off is a slightly more green color and flavor.

Take the amount you would use for a joint for each 8 ounces of fluid, break up and then put it in a small container or baggie and add 1 tsp of ever clear or vodka. Shake well to distribute(alcohol will be gone when you process it) and then let it "sweat" for 5 minutes, no longer because it will be too green, if you don't do this then the crystals will be irritating to your throat and gut. Now you can put into expresso maker and process it.

It comes out slightly green but it's a very nice herbally taste and smell depending on the strain. The trade off for not having to go to the trouble of the tea cure. You can add to a favorite drink, hot or cold or add a little sweetener and use as is.

If you sip it slow allowing it to rest in your mouth for a few seconds and then swallow you get a full range of benefits and full potency. Pretty much the same level high as if you smoked plus the long lasting effects you get from eating.

I believe am going to name this "Tits Up" (like Bubble Up) as figuring it out it has put me in the lawn chair for many hours. Jeez
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This is working well for Cannabis Fast Food too. Any soup mix , rice, Jello, pudding, cake mixes and so on, or anything that uses water in the mix or recipe can be used with this too. It makes it really easy, especially for people who don't feel good
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There are further suggestions in the thread on the site if you are interested.

 

[Truthman]

Let someone who has experienced it tell you......boil some water, pour it in a cup and put your tea(weed) and honey in the water and let it sit for about and hour, then drink it.....be warned!!!.....the effects won't show up immediately but after about an hour later, you will start to notice that you have a serious buzz.....then an hour after that that's when the TERROR begins....I swear I was obliterated, like an overdose for about 8 hours then I was finally able to go to sleep.....I woke up the next morning, had breakfast and the high kicked in all over again...I wouldn't recommend using tea unless you like being f'd up to the point you need to go to the hospital....so be warned.

I don't know why I never thought of this but it makes perfect sense to do.

What is happening is the honey is sticky and attracts the sticky resin glands. When the resin glands are in the water with the honey, even though they are not water soluble the honey acts as a carrier and brings it along with it as it travels with the water.

I wonder if putting the honey on top of some grinded herb and mix them really well would work better and faster than just mixing everything together because if you put let the honey stick to the resin glands and they mix together, when water is added you don't have to wait that long for everything to settle because an hour is a long time just to start drinking.

Anyway, thanks for this tip. Peace.

 

[professordank]

gonna have to go with cephas on this one, no messing about with that shit. I've had weak teas that still took my head off after kicking in. Potency is just a question of how long it is seeped. Some reason that reg tea seeped to long is poison.

 

[oaktree]

cephas333 - i'd actually like to try that. It sounds pretty fun. I'll make sure i have nothing to do the entire day. make some tea when i wake up and enjoy a fun day.

Rose - thank you for the info, very informative. i appreciate the help

Thank you all who stopped by, at harvest i want to try making some tea, maybe some grapefruit x NL or lemon stinky will taste fruity

 

[cephas333]

Whatever you do, don't overdo it. It's enough that ur high outta your mind for an hour or two, but when ur like 5 times higher than that or higher for several hours, then you will need some medical attention. I'm being very serious. My tolerance is kinda up there, but when I tried the tea, i was taken into the twilight zone. So if you go ahead and make some tea, just start out with a little bit.

 

[Fat_Zach]

there are many head changing teas out there but none I know of including marijuana unless alcohol is involved which is undesireable to some. that said like mentioned you could always make a bitching long island ice tea! Just make some infused 151 (just search as to how wont take long) and pour 1 ounce along with 1 ounce of gin, vodka, and silver tequila in a tall glass of ice, fill almost to the top with sweet and sour mix, and add your favorite cola drink to taste. garnish with lemon!! But be forewarned after a few the spins tend to rear their ugly head but usually your to blown and drunk to care!

 

[Core]

tea works quite good for me....take a teabag poor water in ya cup and just grind up a piece of bud and trow it in ya tea....i also eat the grinded bud meanwhile ..but with lots of sugar.....just dont boil ya tea when the thc is innit....

or take some stems..quite a few....put them in water bring it 2 just under boiling point and let i simmer for 30 minutes.....hang a teabag innit for a few and then let it cool off...

you'lll see the THC floating on the surface...but dont expect a 8 hour trip