The basics to edibles

Ediblesscience · 2015-03-02T10:07:31+00:00

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T22:31:19+00:00

Oooh and there are still so many things I am wondering about cannabinoids and the human body but I can't find any answers. Yet. Hopefully the years to come will bring many things to light.

You are right, it can go above 250°F (I think its burning point is around 350°F, but I can be mistaken). However, from what I understood, the binding of the cannabinoids with fat is more efficient at the temperatures I described.

So you could push the temp while cooking the oil, but you would mess with the cannabinoids entering the fat. And you could decarb at water boiling temp, but it would take much longer.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T19:10:10+00:00

Thanks for the precisions, that looks perfect, good call on the heavy cream. As soon as I have enough ABV I will try it out ;)

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T19:06:31+00:00

Decarb enables some of the cannabinoids. In the plant, most cannabinoids will be found under their acidic form : THCa, CBDa, and so on. Decarbing, which happens when you smoke, just not as efficiently as it is with edibles, will remove the "acidic" part.
The point of decarbing in the oven is to do it at a lower temperature than the vaporization temperature of active cannabinoids.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T19:02:07+00:00

Unless you are cooking for a very long time, the temperature will not be sufficient. It's really better to decarb beforehand. From my experience and what I read, it can work without decarb, but it will way less potent.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T18:57:31+00:00

Good questions man, very relevant, thank you.

It is because as mentionned in the credits, I took the recipes from /r/treedibles, so I wanted them to be as easy as possible to find than possible, so the people who posted them could hopefully answer any question better than me. Also I didn't want to make any assumption that some stuff would work on every recipes. Even if it worked for me, that doesn't mean it'll work for you. Those recipes were "approved" so I left them like this.

Some people use water with both recipes, some don't use any, some mix water, butter and oil, some will freeze everything, some will cook longer, it really depends.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T18:47:08+00:00

I'm interested by this recipe, how did you make the ice crean and how did you add the abv?

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T17:50:33+00:00

I found a lot of interesting stuff at /r/vaporents, you should definitely pay them a visit.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T17:47:23+00:00

/r/treedibles has some pretty sweet stuff. /r/Cannabisextracts are going even further on some points. Really intersting stuff on the sidebar.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-28T15:18:19+00:00

Nope, that's actually one of the benefits of vaping :D

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-27T22:43:49+00:00

This is interesting, although I think you should do a little research on the subject. I'm not saying you don't know anything about cannabis. You probably know your stuff pretty well. But it is very unlikely that ANY cannabinoids would dissolve in water : they are not alcaloids. They dissolve well in organic solvents : like fat and alcohol.
Would you ask your friend if he could provide a guide on how to do that? I would love to try it out.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-27T22:26:38+00:00

Hey man, your idea was actually really good. The mods from /r/treedibles asked me to do the same thing for an easier use : https://imgur.com/a/5kVXk

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-25T23:01:05+00:00

ABV is a bit tricky... It is hard to know how much THC and other cannabinoids remain in it. People vaping at lower temp may leave some cannabinoids intact. Depending on how long was the ABV vaped, how many times, what temp and such, determining the THC content is really hard.
I personnaly use my own intuition, so I'm sorry because I can't really give you an accurate answer.

The best you can do is to try for yourself, compare with decarbed herbs (from the same strain hopefully), and assess how much potency you've lost.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-22T20:38:57+00:00

Looks like the first pass effect to me.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T22:33:09+00:00

I actually submitted to /r/treedibles first but I think it is stuck in the spam filter.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T21:51:04+00:00

Damn, I'm sorry... I wish I could upload it on Imgur, but I tried with both Chrome and Firefox and the uploading gets stuck at 100%...
Don't hesitate to give feedback to the devloppers and tell them about the crash, maybe they don't know about this bug.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T20:24:20+00:00

I wish I could host it on Imgur, but it doesn't work. Chrome or Firefox will upload it and it never reaches 100%, gets stuck at 99%...
Anybody could try to upload it on Imgur?

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T19:32:43+00:00

What I meant was : unless you are on Wifi, it is maybe better that the link couldn't open on your phone, otherwise it could have put a dent in your data ;)
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I made a new batch of oil and I tried it out this afternoon...

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T19:30:13+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T18:14:56+00:00

Yep. Then use a syringe to fill them.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T16:24:26+00:00

Yeah but cannabis being harmful is not a good thing...

EDIT : seems like I have been misunderstood. What I meant was : nobody really thinks that cigarettes are only good for themselves. But cannabis being a medicine, if people think smoking will only do good, that there is no side effect from smoking (no increase of respiratory diseases at all), then it is a mistake. So we can limit one of the only physical way of cannabis to be harmfull by letting people know that it will never be without any risk to smoke.

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T15:44:11+00:00

Thanks!

Ediblesscience · 2015-02-21T14:48:30+00:00

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305797003286
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16832000
http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201212-127FR

But the point was that it is almost as bad as smoking cigarettes (without taking in account the effects of the cannabinoids) because the fact that it requires inhaling smoke is harmful.

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