This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on March 16, 2015.
Cannabis infused honey can be a tasty way to enjoy the medical benefits of marijuana. The following recipe will yield a lot of honey for the average patient, and for a long time. Consider cutting the recipe in half, or whatever amount you feel you will need. Your cannabis honey will last for up to 8 months if stored in a dark, cool place.
What You Will Need:
- A crock pot
- One ounce of cannabis (grind or cut up first)
- 5 pounds of honey (locally sourced honey is preferred)
- Cheese cloth
- String or bread tie
Directions:
- Wrap your cannabis in a cheese cloth. Tie the end with a string.
- Put the cannabis in your crock pot and pour honey over top.
- Cover crock pot and cook on low for five hours, stirring couple times per hour. Do not let boil.
- Turn crock pot off. Let honey sit to cool for up to 24 hours.
- Remove bundle from the honey, squeezing as much honey from the cheesecloth as possible.
- Put your honey into a jar(s).
- Enjoy.
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Was wondering how good of a solvent honey is? Do you decarboxylize the cannabis?
I want to do this to send out to our neighboring lab- MCR Labs in Framingham. Don’t want to waste too much product though.
Please let me know, Thanks 🙂
The heat process will decarboxylate the cannabis and you can also use trim leaves and small buds. Or if you want great stuff, you can use your good buds.
Sounds good but I wonder how much infused honey would constitute a dose? I realize there are many variables but considering a seasoned patient using moderate medical quality product would doses be on the neighborhood of teaspoons or tablespoons?
If u dont carboxylate it its not active …
With this dosage 25 to 50 gr (5 to 10 tsp) of medicated honey will get you high depending on your tolerance, try 10gr first
and keep it away from children 😉
I have a high tolerance and I can’t think of anything I can put 10 tsp’s into. I use pure extract.
You can use the honey in place of sugar when baking. Imagine using medicated honey and medicated butter together in some cookies or brownies… That would get you really high!
If it’s heated past 200-250 in Che crockpot its activated…
I Like the way you think my friend ive been pondering the idea of super edibles LOL
Have actually worked closely with MCR and they say your cannabis doesn’t decarboxylize evenly or as well if it’s already in a solvent. You would need to decarb it before hand
My main question here is how well of a solvent honey is? How much of the cannabinoids will it really absorb?
I’ve tried medicated honey that was made by mixing an alcohol Tincture to the honey and heating it up in either a double boiler/on low on a crockpot to evaporate the alcohol. It was nice and potent.
I’ve never tried one made by just adding cannabis to honey directly.
hi! i am a beekeeper and i would like to say that though this sounds really cool you should all have in mind that if you heat honey over 40 degrees Celsius you are essentially destroying all the nutrients and good stuff inside it. that’s why we always tell people if their honey is crystallized and they won’t to bring it back to a flowable form they should heat it but being very careful not to go over this limit. so when making this recipe you should have a thermometer inside your mixture (if this is possible) and measure temperature. however i don’t know if 40 degrees will decarboxylize marijuana, so as others are saying maybe you should decarboxylize it first and then mix it with honey
to be more precise actually when we heat a jar of honey in a pot with water to de-crystallize it we measure the water’s temperature not to go above 40, so essentially the honey inside the jar would have even less temperature which is the temperature we find in a hive normally (35 – 36C)
Wow these crazy honey nerds are so interesting☺
I prefer infused coconut oil. I mix it into unsweetened cocoa,honey,maple syrup and vanilla extract to make chocolates from scratch… 🙂
can you please send me this recipe and more. I do chemotherapy and radiation and weed is a cure for a lot of the affects suffered by the chemotherapy and radiation. Charity Holmes 6501 West Charleston Blvd apt C-18. Las Vegas Nevada,89146. thank you
What is your method of transportation of the THC molecule? There is no fatty lipid thus infusion is impossible for any medicinal content. I guess you can enjoy the taste; however, this is a failure.
So would you recommend doing this recipe or not? I was already looking into local honey as part of my daily routine, but I don’t want to destroy the enzymes etc. I know you said to keep a thermometer in it, and check it frequently, if possible, but would like more insight, if possible. TIA!!!
If the temperature goes over 40oC then you essentially are destroying most of the good stuff that honey has. If there is a way to decarboxylize marijuana with such a low temperature yes, go for it.
If not you have to choose: You either heat it a lot and have a marijuana honey that is decarboxylized and you get the high and the good stuff of marijuana but not the good stuff of honey (the taste of honey will still be there of course) OR you don’t heat it above 40oC and you get a honey that has the good stuff in it but with marijuana that isn’t decarboxylized so you don’t get high.
All these provided that marijuana isn’t decarboxylized around 40oC which I am not sure about but I think you need more heat to make that happen, perhaps someone with more knowledge on marijuana and cooking it can answer that, I just provided my knowledge on honey.
Hope this helps…
In my experience, this would taste amazing, but have no medical value. This would not help you medicate. Make budder, then mix that with honey that could possibly work and taste even better.
Or as other have also said if there is a way to decarbozylize marijuana first and then mix it with honey without going over the temperature limit then that would be the best way! Then you get all the good stuff!
Can coconut infused mj be mixed with raw honey ?
Rule of thumb … 110 deg C (240 F) limit for 60 min to decarb Cannabis and convert THCA to THC. So, if honey breaks down at 40 deg C, better to first decarb your Cannabis flowers first, THEN soak the decarb’d flowers in everclear to dislodge the trichomes, drain off and dry the plant material and save it for stash-filler, then add the now cooled liquid to the honey, about a mix of 75/25 to retain a thick viscosity. Spread on your toast with some butter and cinnamon, and ‘jai-la’ … you’ve got canna-honey!
wonder this ?
If you just infused the honey
And gave it back to the bees
What can it do but make
A happy Bee? And cure
What ever is killing them
Off? Or they get possessed and sting the hell
Out of ya!
I was under the impression you needed to use oil or butter to get the infusion? Or is this strictly for cannibinoids, therefore not the?
If you made one pot of Honey infused, and take over the recommended temp for the Honey to be much use, but then added that to some unheated Honey I think that might do the trick..
“110 deg C (240 F) limit for 60 min to decarb Cannabis”
What is the method used for heating. What kind of container? In the oven? I’m uninformed. Thanks.
What about using cannabis oil?
You are so right .I tried this recipe two times and it did not work.
Enjoying this topic so much, unable to smoke and need pain relief but don’t necessarily want high.
This is kind of like what I do, as I’m not sure honey is a good medium to extract the cannabinoids, but I just do the honey and coconut oil, at first this way I can make chocolates, add it to recipes, coffee, chai tea, I also keep all the bud in it and blend it up really good by putting a regular size canning jar on my blender ring, basically any regular size mason jar can be used for the container, and just blend everything real good, that way I’m getting all the benefits, I decarb everything first, and the jar thing is great for grinding everything up, you do everything in one container that way there’s not waste, and not as many dirty dishes, and you use the jar in a pan of hot water, I put the lid on that way nothing escapes, makes some killer stuff.
I’m just adding my opinion, that since no one seems to know how well the cannabinoids are infused into the honey, I’d use either and alcohol or coconut oil, I’ve done both, and then mix that into the honey, I always decarb first, just to know for sure it’s done.
Def gonna try this
I dissolved 1 gram of hash into 375 ml of honey and 1 tablespoon was a dose.
I totally agree
Based in the recipe here i would decarb