Boiling weed?

Hm, is there any clear reason why we can't get high from just eating raw bud? Let's start with that, then we can figure out the rest of his question by order of elimination.

I'd still like my question answered, that's what I'm getting at. Does cooking it make it more digestible, therefore allowing us to eat, for example, browned bud and get high?

 

thanks willy ill look into that

 

yes i believe its due to the way that the chemical is contained in the plant, it is not dissolved, it is in droplets of cannabinoids in little vesicles (on the trichomes). when we smoke, cook into oil, or dissolve in alchohol, this effectively draws tehse chemicals out and dissolves them - in the air, the oil or the alchohol, and a dissolved chemical has each of its molecules seperate in solution, which would allow them to be absorbed much easier than when they stick together, for thc is a very sticky/viscous chemical

 

So, as I was asking, it's not just heating the weed that you need, you also have to extract it out of the bud? Boiling in water heats/activates the THC, but doesn't extract it; it's still in the vesicles so when I eat it most of it wont be absorbed?

 

well presumably heating it would burst the vesicles ?

 

actually if you are boiling water.. then you are more than likely burning off THC.. since THC burns at 180-190F.. and water boils at 212F

 

i guess the question im wondering is... why would you wanna eat boiled weed.. that sounds nasty...

 

I'm too lazy to cook it.

And what do you mean THC burns at 180 degrees? If that were bad, wouldn't cooking it be useless, since you bake at several hundred degrees (350 or higher)? Maybe the "burning" that occurs at 180 is what we're talking about when we say we activate it.

 

hey try this http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=865958
except if you live in california cause everclear is illegal there sucks for yall

 

or y not just smoke it?

 

^because I like to try new things

Thanks for the link, maybe i'll try that.