How to Make Weed Edibles: Best Edible Marijuana Recipes

If you want to know how to make marijuana edibles, the secret is cooking with marijuana butter. First, let’s talk about why make weed edibles?

Positive Effects of Edible Marijuana

• You don’t have to know how to cook to follow simple medical marijuana edibles recipes
• Once you learn how to make cannabis edibles, you will have a healthier alternative to smoking pot
• Edibles THC  is more relaxing and lasts longer than smoked THC
• Cooking with marijuana butter gives you the option of making delicious food from baking pot cookies to bud brownies and hash candy that delivers the medical effects of marijuana, from pain relief to fighting cancer
• Weed cooking to baking cooked medical marijuana products, cooking with cannabis butter, is sometimes legal where weed smoking is still illegal
• The effects of edible marijuana come on slower and are stronger and last longer than smoked marijuana

It’s clear that if you cook your weed, you get a longer, stronger, and more legal experience than smoking marijuana but there are a few cons. The most obvious is that you don’t get as acutely high from pot edibles as you do from smoking marijuana. The second con is that dosing is much easier smoking weed than it is with edibles. Overdosing on edibles can produce a frightening experience but is usually not physically dangerous. The third con is simply that it takes about an hour to feel the effects of edibles.

To make a good weed bake and have a positive experience is easy to do, just follow these simple basic steps.

Step #1 Don’t hate, decarboxylate

The first step in any weed bake is to choose a high-quality strain of weed, then make it super-strong by decarboxylating it, which is a fancy word that means to bake it on a baking sheet at 240 degrees for 25 mins to an hour, depending on how much weed you’re using for making edibles. This will concentrate the bud and convert more of the cannabinoids to the potent THC that you want.

Strains: Indicas to Meditate, Sativas to Stimulate

When choosing a strain to use in your bake, consider the effects each strain offers. Indicas usually offer profound relaxation while sativas are more stimulating. If you want to treat anxiety and pain, you might want an indica. If instead, you want to address fatigue, a sativa might be more appropriate. There are as many different strains of these basic categories as there are vendors and the different strains offer different experiences. One way to tell a potent strain is by smell. You want a potent and deep aroma from the strain you choose. You may have to test different strains for THC edibles and ask other users and vendors what effects each give to find the strains that are right for you.

Step #2 Cooking with Cannabis Butter

Cannabutter is the essential ingredient for any weed bake. Don’t be intimidated, it is extremely easy to make.

Here’s what you need to make basic cannabutter.

The basic process is to put your decarboxylated weed and butter in a pot with a little water just to make sure the butter doesn’t burn, and heat on a low simmer for 3 to 6 hours. Long as the butter doesn’t burn, the longer you heat, the more cannabinoids you get in the butter. Some prefer to heat in a crockpot to 6 hours. Let it cool enough to handle, strain out the plant material and discard (the THC is now inside the butter!), then put it in the fridge overnight for it to harden. Next, remove the hardened butter from the residual water and you have your main ingredient, your precious cannabutter infused with powerful cannabinoids. For more specific instructions on making cannabutter, view our detailed explanation on Making the Marijuana Oil here: https://leaf.expert/english/information-for-patients/cannabutter-oil-recipe

Step #3 Bake or Make with your Cannabutter or Canna Oil

You can bake cookies, cakes, and brownies or make syrups and candies with your canna-oil or cannabutter.  All you need to do is follow the instructions for making these foods and replace the oil required in the recipe with your cannabutter. It has a great taste and amazing medicinal effects.

We will give you right here, the basic steps for making simple, but tasty and powerful marijuana edibles.

Basic Bud Brownies

Brownies are by far the most popular weed edible. In some places, you can’t buy weed brownies but they are incredibly easy to make. On our site here: https://leaf.expert/english/information-for-patients/make-weed-brownies we have given you one easy gourmet recipe and a super-easy recipe for people who don’t cook. The basic method for cooking pot brownies is to mix your decarboxylated cannabutter with your eggs, water, pecans, chocolate chips, and brownie mix recipe, put it in your greased baking pan, and bake for 30 mins. For those who need a simpler approach, simply mix your store-bought brownie mix with your cannabutter and cook for 30 mins. This produces a harder brownie that more resistant to spoiling because it doesn’t have eggs, nuts, or milk in it.

This article about Medical Marijuana was published on 07-09-2017 and updated on March 6, 2020 . Medical facts in this article was checked and article was medically reviewed by our Leaf Expert Medical Team . Author of this checked article is Daryl Seldon (MS) who is expert in Medical Marijuana