Well put.

The hot water serves to take all the THC acid and Decarboxylize it (knock a COOH off the end of the molecule) to convert it into its psychoactive form. If you were to just make the tea, it might knock off some converted THC in suspension, but nothing would dissolve. However, if you boil the weed for a while, drink the water, and then eat the weed paste left over (or mix it with sugar and put it on a cracker, whatever), you'd prob get hella fucked.

actually all of you that say it's not possible to make weed tea are very wrong i just did it last night now this is how you do it you take a pot fill it half with water and then the rest milk heat it until it boils then add the weed stir it and put a plate over the pot let it sit for about 20 to 30 min. when you place the buds in the pot dont put it in a tea bag just put it in the pot and when you pour it to drink it get the buds in there too then drink it and eat the buds then about 30 min to an hour later smoke a ciggarette(not sure if you have to but it's what i did and by the end of the cig i felt high already) it messes you up pretty bad.

People, we know you can make weed tea. What we're saying is is that some form of oil/fat must be present to make it work, as compared to just boiling it in water. That doesn't work.

Milk, butter, alcohol, and whatever constitues "oils", food-wise, can absorb THC molecules. Water can not. That's why all the effective methods of passing drug tests somehow involve drinking lots of water.

HOWEVER, Bong water CAN get you stoned, the reason for this is that the tar gets aborbed into the water, and the THC attaches to that. But, I would advise against drinking it (I've never done it myself) because the tar:THC ratio is much higher, it's bad for your health and when my friend tried it he got sick.

Just thought I'd clarify some things up here before we move on in the discussion.

Yes the best recipes that I've seen for weed tea is to take a stick of butter and melt it in boiling water. Add the weed and let it boil away for about 20 - 30 mins, or longer to really get all the THC out. Then let it cool enough to put the mixture in the fridge. As the mix cools the butter hardens - along with the THC - and you can pour off the water. Then use the butter in cooking or you can make tea (or Bhang).

Not sure of the quantities (how much weed, butter, water) you'll have to google it.

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stems seeds and bud in watter and let it boil and if u want just ad some reg tea

You are wasting good bud if you are putting it into water... I simply can't stand by and let this happen, lol, so I'll share with you a method that worked for me. I got the recipe off erowid.org, I think, a few years ago. Here's how I did it:

I basically took 1 cup of either whole or 2% milk, put a paper towel over the top of the mug, and heated it up in the microwave at 30 second intervals, checking between intervals to make sure the milk didn't bubble over, until it was steaming hot. (steaming hot, meaning before it boils: if the milk boils, the thc drawn from the bud will evaporate into the air, and a good amount of thc will be lost.) Then I poured the hot milk over a good nickel's worth (about four or five grams) of broken up buds and stems, and let it steep for five minutes, put the cup back in and let it heat some more, and then let it steep again; I repeated this a few times until the milk had a very distinct green tint. When it was done, I let it cool a bit and sipped on it... it had me extremely lit in about fifteen minutes!!! It does not taste very good alone...I recommend using the bud milk to make hot cocoa, or to put in coffee.. that masks the bitterness pretty well, with a bit of sugar, of course. Enjoy, I hope it works for you.

Heh heh, posting this made me want to make the tea it again...so I did. It doesn't work in fifteen minutes....it works instantly.

I know that we have some wise and knowledgable people in our community, so why don't someone (with allot of BUD), do controlled experiments?
That way, the sceptism will be gone and we'll have at least FACTS.
Like do the Butter thing, then do the milk thing, then do the water and milk or just milk alone? Personally I don't know and I rather smoke it anyways.

I would reccomend using whole milk instead of skim or 1%/2% if you really want to do that. I think you would have to cook the weed in the milk first, in order to get out the thc, and then add water. I think that if the weed gets wet, then the fat can't get to it and extract all the yummy thc goodness.

Try mixing it with green, black, or white tea too.

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THC is soluble in oil or alcohol. Tea does not get the THC into you. However, there are more cannabinoids in cannabis than THC. I doubt it will get you high, but if you are in pain, it may work. Read the following articles.

Cannabis tea revisited: A systematic evaluation
Cannabis tea revisited: a systematic evaluation of...[J Ethnopharmacol. 2007] - PubMed Result

*Cuppa Gives A Better 'ooh'
Cuppa Gives A Better 'ooh': The Hempire - [cannabis, uk]

*With the use of cannabis tea only a small proportion of THC in the cannabis is ingested
Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Cannabis als Medizin


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Though THC is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, it possesses more than 400 chemicals, 60 of which (including THC) are cannabinoids. Cannabis plants also contain choline, eugenol, guaicacol and piperidine.

While you are correct that THC is not water soluble, it is possible that the other cannabinoids are indeed just that. So a high can still occur.

It also might work to soak the 'tea bag' in a shot of liquor (clear preferred?) then add hot water to extract anything else in the plant.
I would think to let time pass before adding the water.

I have never tried tea with alcohol, but weed tea tastes delicious and I did get a 'high'. I will try it with alcohol soon.

The More You Know...

I've been researching tinctures and happened to find a few things about teas as well. I've never made it but many people have. Don't let people tell you it can't be done. The key is something oily or fatty in the tea. Add milk, butter or whatever, but water alone will likely do nothing. The good stuff actually ends up on top of the water, like an oil slick. Drinking the rest of the tea will do nothing except make the stuff taste better. Also don't let people tell you not to waste good bud on tea. Like everything else you do with weed, crap in = crap out. Good stuff in = success. Stems have virtually none of the chemicals we desire.

Just my 2 cents, but the point is many people do it, and do it well. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done, or it's a waste of time.

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yeah oppy is right... THC is fat soluble...

i know half a pound of stems and a lil shake didnt do anything to 2 cups of water used for tea but altered the taste a lil bit and chnaged the color of water into river green!!!!! no psych effects after consumption was reported neither any stomach problems.


the "tea" is just a name... essentially its a weed drink based on some fatty/oily substance or an alcoholic beverage... it has nothing to do with idea of brewing marijuana in water as to have a a "mj tea"

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i can't believe how many people didn't know what they were talking about in the early years of this post. so many were confirming he did it right. aside from the alternative cannabinoids that someone mentioned, you will not get high from just dousing weed with hot water.

it's even more absurd than the people that claim to get high by just eating weed, because at least THEY might have had some fat or oil in their stomach already.

lol silliess

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So true veg33, so true.

However when people say they got high from heating weed with water, though it's hard to believe they may be telling the truth to some degree. Regardless of what most people think, THC is water soluble. The deal is it's only very slightly water soluble, where as with oil or fat its extremely soluble. I expect the results from using water to be extremely marginal, but not out of the question.

I've not tried with water, because if it did work at all it would be extremely inefficient and wasteful. These assumptions are only based on what I've read.

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I dont realliy have a recipe carved in 'stone'.

Lycathin is what is in the Milk that emulsifies the oils that contain the THC and other goodies in the erb'. (Milk .. Butter .. )

Water soluable capsules are readily available and can be used instead of Dairy.

Boiling weed in water for 15-30 minutes ( I'm trying different times )
Every strain is different so its really hard to get uniform measurements when I'm dealing with amounts of time in the water... amount of water..


I'll share what I have though.

I can get a just under a litre of 'bomb' liquid out of 6 grams.

Grinding it up in a buster or scissors before boiling is essential.

The best batch I ever made was
3 cups of water & 15Grams of Butter
... and 3 cups of milk slowly added after the water boiled
then let to steep for a long time. Until cool.


Pour the mixture into a jar through a strainer.

A cup of that layed me out ... but I chilled it and basically got high for three days.

I find the more brown & sticky the resin in the bud the stronger the drink. The longer the flower was left before harvest the better I'm gathering.
Which is not necessarily what people want for smoking.
Prettier ... more crystally buds ... have not produced stronger drinks for me but some of the premiere buds have a better taste.



After boiling and adding something with Lycathin in it ( the Milk and Butter in my recipe )... grinding the weed..... fellow concerned potlovers shouldn't conern themselves with what they are losing but what they are gaining when they chuck the carbon based fibre waste material that is the green slime in the strainer..... although feel free to cook with it.

Its not the same as smoking it ...... at all.
My lips .. gums .. throat & lungs are feeling the same kindness that my mind as enjoyed for years. Twenty five of them ...

When I get the mix just so ... its better. A lot better.
It lasts longer.
The munchie factor dwarfs the smoking induced craving. Probably not a good thing for most but I like it.
Some mixtures have turned out some super trippy results. Colours ... laughing .. you guys know the drill. LSD Like.
Body layed right out .. not going anywhere type thing.

There is no substitute or the rush of the instant absorption of pot smoke entering the blood stream through the lungs. If thats' what you're after.
Blowing one off is a a rite. Nothing replaces it.

I like to have way more dope in me than smoking will safely allow for at my age. This works for me.

Tonite I am trying a new step ...

boiling off & simmering 5 Gs' in two cups of water and 10G of butter.....

15 minutes

Adding in three cups of Milk

Then let steep over night before straining and adding any flavours.

I don't think it matters if thc is water soluable or not, as long as its released and activated. What activates it? Heat. I just don't know what the exact temperature is recommended. I've read THC is activated at 175 degrees farenheit and numbers have flucuated between 150-220 degrees from various books and online sources.

Like Opie said, it ends up like an oil slick on top of the water. Obviously it doesn't mix but that does not mean it is not activated. There is obviously something in fat and alcohol that retains the thc/cbn in it's desired state, and I use the word 'retain' very liberally because oil and water is not even supposed to mix in the first place. Very hot water *can* melt the oily crystals on flowers.

I think the trick to it all is to find the desired temperature.

Reading this thread gave me an idea (although it is part of like 3 posts). Soaking 1 gram in 3oz of everclear for say 1 hour (or longer), and then adding it to 2 cups of water, then boiling a little more than one cup out with low heat giving you around 1 cup of liquid extract thc and what not allowing you to add it to water to heat slowly at low heat until it is close to 1 cup of liquid.

Disclaimer. If you are over fire, you shouldnt be. Mix everything away from a gas stove or fire or whatever. Away, you know just in case.

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Im almost sure that it would not give good results. For the THC be extracted to the alcohol (everclear), it must be heated at a suitable temperature (very near the alcohols boiling point) for a large amount of time (about 1 hour or so). The heat increases enormously the speed of the extraction. Soaking weed in cold everclear takes WEEKS to produce a "decent" extract.
Also, the waters hinders greatly the THC extraction, so adding water to the everclear only would make it worse.

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