Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Recipes for Medicinal Marijuana

Marijuana Butter

Soak 2 oz. marijuana leaves in hot tap water for 5 minutes. Put leaves in strainer and run more hot water over them, in a large pot, simmer clean leaves with 4 cups of water and 2 cups of butter for 2 hours. Scoop leaves from water/butter mixture. Again pour hot water through the leaves into another pan. Repeat several times to remove all butter from leaves. Refrigerate mix until butter hardens on the surface. Remove butter and discard water. Can be used in almost any recipe.

Marijuana Leaf Flour to bake with

Grind to a fine flour like consistency until you have 1 ½ - 2 cups of marijuana leaf flour.

Melt a cube of butter in a skillet.

Slowly sauté the leaf in the melted butter on the lowest possible heat for at least 40 minutes. Cover, but check constantly! Stir repeatedly, keep checking the mixture. DO NOT LET BURN, STIR STIR STIR, keep checking.

You can add a small amount of water to keep the mixture from sticking, but keep your eye on the mixture and be certain that it is dry to cook with.

Let cool, then add this in place of some of the flour to any recipe that you like. Some folks add it right into a cake mix.

I make a remarkable cookie from a butter cookie recipe by just adding the flour to recipe as is and adding another egg.

Marijuana Tincture

You will need:

Glass jar- 1 quart mason jar is ideal but any size will do.

3 parts ground marijuana. Leaf bud or shake.

4 parts high proof alcohol. Everclear or Vodka.

To make Tincture:

Fill jar ¾ full of herb

Fill rest of jar with alcohol; leave some room at top stir.

Shake jar one or two times a day for 2 weeks.

Strain through metal tea strainer or silkscreen.

You can use whatever kind of clean glass, not plastic, jar you have with a tight lid. One-quart mason jars are ideal. Grind the herb thoroughly in a blender. It should be well ground but doesn’t have to be a powder. You can use leaf, bud, shake, joint leftover, or stems. Too many stems will wreck your blender and a weaker tincture. Leaf work fine but for higher potency use shake or bud. Fill the jar ¾ full of herb; it does not have to be exact. You can use anywhere from ½ to 2/3 part herb but ¾ will make a full strength tincture. Use the highest proof alcohol you can, Everclear, which is 180 proof, but hard to find. So just use the highest proof Vodka you can find.

Pour alcohol over the herb, filling the rest of the jar. Leave just enough space (an inch or so) at the top so that you will be able to shake the jar. Stir the mixture; the herb will absorb some of the alcohol so you may need to add more. Put the lid on tightly; label the contents and the date you started. It takes two weeks for the alcohol to extract all the active elements from the herb. Shake the jar once or twice a day for 2 weeks. The alcohol will rise to the top and a deep green/red color will develop.

After 2 weeks of aging you can strain the tincture through a metal tea strainer or a silk screen into a small tincture bottle with a dropper. You can leave the rest in the jar if you want, it will age and mellow in flavor and you can strain off as much as you want at a time. Alcohol is a strong preservative it will hold for a long time, be careful when handling the tincture, it satins and will turn everything it comes in contact with green. Use Ultra Palmolive anti-bacterial dish soap, the orange kind, to clean the glass, metal or other ceramic utensils, (do not use plastic) sinks and counter tops works best at dissolving THC residue.

Dosage varies per individual but start with half a dropper dissolved in hot tea or water. Hot tea will dissipate some of the alcohol and activate the THC a bit. It can be taken straight but may burn the tongue and has a very strong herbal taste. Enjoy and be well.

Cleaning Tincture Bottles

They need to be cleaned by hand.

Take them all apart and soak in:

Palmolive Ultra Anti Bacterial – Orange

2 Tbs. Bleach in soaking water in 4/5 gallons H20.

Triple rinse till clean (no soap) any bottle w/ any residue (sticky matter from tincture)

Marijuana Capsules for Children's Ailments

Weigh the marijuana, grind it in a coffee grinder, sift and cook it on the stove top with butter and water, spread it on a cookie sheet, bake it, cool it, then capsule it. It takes about five hours from start to finish. We capsule it in two different sizes gelatin capsules, “O” and “OO” to administer the dosage.

Making a large quantity caused the potency to diminish. Store in freezer. This makes about two week’s supply at a time and keeps the medicine fresh for use

The Ingredients

1.25 - 2.5oz marijuana leaf (you may use bud, but the strength will be increased)

¼ - ½ cup butter

¾ cup water


The following process is used to treat one youth. Each person will respond differently. Careful monitoring is essential a child's case and should be applied to anyone who might seek to follow this recipe.

Grind leaf in a coffee grinder. Sift. (Use a series of finer screens to remove larger fibrous material.) Melt butter in a saucepan or skillet. Add water and sifted leaf. Cook on lowest possible eat, bring just to a simmer (do not boil), continue cooking and stirring over low heat for 1-2 hours. If it gets too thick to simmer, add a little more water.

CAREFUL NOT TO BURN!!

(The Following part of the process is optional):

Spread out into a cookie sheet and place in a warm oven (the lowest setting, approximately 200 degrees, and “dry” for 2-3 hours. When it is dry and crumbly, cool and put into “OO” & “O” gelatin capsules (Gelatin capsules as well as a “gelatin capsule packer” is available at health food stores in various sizes).

It is important to begin by administering the lowest possible dosage. and increase unitl the benifits begin to show.

To test we chose between giving one capsule in the evening, after school or in the morning on a weekend. It was important to make certain that the child was in a safe place and did not have any obligations outside of the home or a place he felt safe. It is very important to closely observe and monitor a child’s behavior. We never rely on memory, always writing down observations, noting changes in behavior and communication.

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Spaghetti Sauce

You will need:

3 slices bacon

¼ C chopped onion

½ lb. ground beef/chicken/turkey

2 ½ C canned whole pealed tomatoes

½ C chopped green peppers

1 lb. fresh sliced sautéed mushrooms

2-3 tbls. Marijuana butter

½ lb. grated cheese

Mince and cook bacon. Stir in onion and meat. Cook well. Add tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms. Simmer uncovered for 20 or 30 minutes. Add butter and cheese when sauce is nearly done. About 2 ½ qts.

Ice Cream

You will need:

8 cups half and half

1 tsp. Vanilla

2 cups sugar

1 tsp. Salt

You can add

6 oz. Semi-sweet chocolate

Chocolate chips

Peppermint Candy

4tbl. (1/4 C) marijuana butter*

Scald half and half until bubbles forms at edges. Remove from heat. Melt butter into hot milk. Add other ingredients. Refrigerate covered mix for 30 min. To freeze: Follow the directions for your ice cream maker.

Happy Cake

You will need:

  • Coffee Grinder

  • Crock pot

  • Medical quality marijuana leaves

    Ingredients (enough to make about 20 muffins)

1 box of chocolate cake mix -- any brand that requires: 1/3 cup water, 3 eggs and 1/2 cup corn oil.

1/4 pound butter

2 ounces dried quality marijuana leaf -- finely ground and sifted

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup of flour

1/4 cup of milk or buttermilk

Part One:

Heat in crock pot - 1 cup water, corn oil and butter until the butter has melted. Mixture should be between 165 and 205 degrees -- no higher. Process the leaf in a coffee grinder or blender, then sift fine powder over the butter and oil mixture. Regrind and sift leftovers once or twice. Stir, cover and cook overnight on low.

Part Two:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour and baking powder with cake mix. Add eggs and milk. Use electric mixer to combine all ingredients. Stir in cooled marijuana mixture until blended. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. Check for doneness using a tooth pick. Cool on a wire rack.



Marijuana Shortbread


You will need:

¾ cup Butter plus 2 Tablespoons

1/3 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Keff (Marijuana bud or leaf run through a fine screen)

1 2/3 cup of unbleached flour

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter into sugar, work in keff, until all one color, and work in flour.

Roll dough till ½ or 1/3 inch on lightly floured board. Cut into shapes. Place on un-greased baking sheet ½ inch apart. Bake about 20 minutes and remove at once. Enjoy.

Makes about 2 dozen.

Marijuana Cookies

(from the Lompico Neighborhood Cookbook)

The essential first step in the preparation of a perfect marijuana cookie is the butter. The healing essence (THC) of marijuana is not water soluble, but fortunately it’s easily released in oil – perfect for cookies or any baked product that uses butter oil.


Tea Cakes


You will need:

½ lb. Green Butter

½ cup plus 1 Tbs. Powdered sugar

2 tsp. Vanilla extract

2 tsp. Almond extract

1 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

1 ¾ cups sifted flour

Whip the powdered sugar into the green butter until it turns a light sea foam green. Whip in the vanilla, almond, and a little salt. Blend in the chopped nuts. Finally, blend in the flour very lightly.

Form the mixture into the small balls, about half the size of a ping-pong ball and place on a cookie sheet. Bake in a 300-degree oven for about 25 minutes or until lightly brown. Cool on rack and roll powdered sugar.

This recipe will make about 3 ½ dozen cookies. Please be warned: do not eat more than one.