Get the most from your weed in a few easy steps
Safe access to regulated cannabis is a wonderful outcome of legalization, and so is innovation. The bevy of new types of edibles and products is an exciting part of legal weed and opens the door for inspiration. Flower and edibles have a purpose, but those feeling creative can make them into something completely different. Flower or flour? That is up to the consumer.
Baked in the crust
Cannabis flower can be easily made into infused baking flour in simple steps. The first thing to do is to decarboxylate the weed so that THCA drops the acid and becomes high-inducing THC.
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Without this slow-heating step, the cannabis flour may not provide the desired effects.
Once decarboxylated, it is time to grind and mix. Decarbed weed should be ground to a fine dust; the goal is to have a consistency similar to the traditional flour in the mix. After grinding, mix the weed into a flour mixture.
GreenState recommends:
- ½ cup white flour
- ¼ cup whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup finely ground cannabis
This mixture can be used the same as regular flour, but be aware it may alter the taste and color of a bake. In a world where most are used to infused butter, weed flour is a novel baking ingredient.
Drink your drops
Cannabis mocktails are becoming more and more common, especially with book releases like Cannabis Cocktails and the rapidly developing THC seltzer market. As these worlds develop, remember that tincture is an epic way to add cannabinoids to a beverage–most are even made with alcohol.
Not all tinctures merge completely into drinks, oil and water notoriously don’t mix, but a cocktail shaker goes a long way. Have a tincture in the cabinet? Consider adding it to a mocktail recipe and enjoying a dash of weed in that fun beverage.
Sprinkle THC on top
Baked weed treats are rare as gummies rise to the preferred edibles, but brands like All About Choices in California still offer the little treats. Let them sit too long, and infused baked goods might turn into THC crumbs. Luckily, there is a way to take advantage of these crumbs.
Baking already decarbed and infused cookies may alter the taste and even the cannabinoid content, so this is best used as a topping. Beware that when cookies are crumbs, it is hard to know how many cannabinoids are consumed.
Use one cookie’s worth or multiple servings as a topping for ice cream sundaes, cream-topped pies, and anything worth topping with whipped cream. Before going the whole hog, remember that roughly a cookie’s worth of crumbs should be one dose.
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Jellied weed drinks
Ready-to-drink sparkling waters and other cannabis drinks can be easily made into mocktails and fancy mixed drinks, but that is not all. Pretty much any liquid can be made into jello, cannabis drinks included.
Jello recipes work with sparkling water as they do with flat water. Mix a weed drink and powder, refrigerate, and enjoy a newly, somewhat solidified form of weed. While this may seem like a similar treat to gummies, there’s more jiggle in classic jello. Plus, if the weed drink is bubbly, they will sparkle!
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On the next dispensary visit, think outside the box and have fun with weed products by repurposing edibles into entirely new creations. Whether it happens intentionally or because a bag of cookies got crushed to crumbs, taking a creative approach to cannabis consumption is a welcome gift from legalization.
