Edibles are a growing and very popular way to get the medicinal benefits of marijuana without smoking or vaping it.  They are also suitable for people that love a slow, intense, and long-lasting experience. MMJ butter is a great option for most as it makes infusing marijuana into food (and some drinks) easier. Such control is vital for medical marijuana patients, especially those experiencing diminished appetites or food aversions.   Consuming marijuana butter is also a great way to avoid the risks associated with the inhalation of marijuana. MMJ butter is also a more approachable and inconspicuous way to consume marijuana. Even more good news is that you don’t need to be a skilled chef to understand and use weed recipe. You just have to be patient, informed and organized.   Step 1 – Ingredients and Tools The potency of this recipe depends on the concentration of the particular strain of marijuana your to use. This makes it hard to get exact potency ratios but even a weaker strain will do the trick. If you need a stronger dose, you can research various leaf strains to ensure you get something stronger.  All the ingredients, tools, and equipment that you’ll use for this recipe are readily available at home.   You’ll need the following:

• ½ ounce of weed
• Scissors or a hand grinder
• Sheet pan or glass baking dish
• Oven
• Butter, margarine or vegetable oil
• One and a half cup of water
• Wooden spoon
• Saucepan
• Knife or Spatula
• Wooden spoon
• Metal strainer or cheesecloth
• Glass jar or vial
• Thermometer (optional)
• Funnel

  Step 2 – Decarboxylate The Bud First, you’ll need to activate the CBD, THC and, cannabinoids in your bud leaf stock. This process is also known as Decarboxylation. You do so by baking the marijuana in an oven until it’s dehydrated. This process ensures the perfect infusion of marijuana from the leaf into the lipids in the stabilizing oil (butter). You also have the option of using other plant-based oils and fats if butter is unavailable. Such oils include olive oil, margarine, and coconut oil. It’s a matter of taste and preference.  

• Preheat your oven to 220 degrees (Fahrenheit)
• Break the buds up to a consistent texture
• Spread it out evenly across the pan
• Cook 20 to 45 minutes
• Mix and Stir every 10 minutes

Step 3 – Combine Ingredients and Boil Now, add some butter and water into the saucepan, ensure the heat is low as you don’t want to overheat or burn an part of the edible making process. Once the butter melts, add your Decarboxylated cannabis. Keep stirring the mix gently with a wooden spoon and cover it with a lid. Allow the mix to simmer gently for 4 hours. Check on it every half-hour so it doesn’t burn or cling onto the saucepan. If you have a thermometer handy, check to ensure the temperature stays between 120 and 180 degrees (Fahrenheit). Such a temperature range is ideal in preventing the mix from coming to a full boil.   Step 4 – Straining Process Once the mixture is ready, it’s time to sieve out the cannabis. You can use a metal strainer to filter out the larger chunks. To eliminate fine sediments, fold a cheesecloth into the funnel. Secure the funnel on top of a glass jar or your storage container of choice. Once the butter cools off, pour it through the funnel. Allow this mix to strain freely until all the butter is sieved. This may take up to 12 hours, so ensure you set up in a place where the operation won’t be disrupted. Please avoid the temptation of rushing the process by forcing the butter through the cheesecloth. This will always result in an awful tasting butter.   Step 5 – Colling Process Once the butter has been sieved, it’s ready for use or refrigeration. Remove the cheesecloth. Cover the butter and place it in the refrigerator so it can harden. After an hour in the fridge, the water content will be separated from the butter. Use a knife, spatula or whatever tool is on hand to scrape the water from the butter.  Place the butter in your desired container and discard the water. MMJ butter made using this method has a shelf life of up to 6 months. However, you need to keep it in the fridge to ensure it stays fresh. Whenever you want to use some let it sit in room temperate so it can soften a little.   Dosage Recommendations Finding the right dose for your butter can be very difficult. Using too much often leads to disastrous effects; this simple trick will help you with such situations. This marijuana butter recipe contains 14 grams of marijuana. Theoretically, this translates to 14 grams of marijuana depending on the input quality stain. Therefore, you can divide the MMJ butter into 14 equal parts. This gives you 14 manageable 1-gram doses. If you’re a beginner, consider using half of such an amount or less. The rule of thumb is to start slow and gradually increase usage as you gauge the desired health benefits. Marijuana edibles also take some time to kick in so the on set of action is 1-2 hours before re administering.   If you need more information on making marijuana butter for edibles, please contact the All Natural MD Florida medical marijuana team of professionals for more details.   All Natural MD has many locations for medical marijuana doctor cards in Florida including Lakeland, Orlando, Sarasota and Bradenton just to name a few. Call (800) 250-6737.

Generally speaking, they top ways to administer medical marijuana for Florida residents:

1. Inhalation
2. Edibles
3. Tincture
4. Topical

 

Inhalation (vaping and smoking)

Vaping or smoking your marijuana is a consumption method that involves inhaling marijuana directly into your lungs. From there, the THC and CBD can quickly enter the bloodstream. Consuming marijuana by inhalation provides the quickest onset of action, but its effects last the shortest amount of time.

 

Dosing by inhalation is fairly accurate. You can measure the amount put into your joint or vaporizer. However, there is a wide range of medicine available once the THC or CBD has passed the lungs. There are variables such as depth of inhale, amount of time breath is held, cleanliness of vaporizer or relative dryness of the flower. While a specific dose is difficult to measure, the person who inhales their marijuana can alter their intake based on how their symptoms responded to previous inhalations. This is easier to do with inhalation because the effects are much more immediate.

 

If your condition needs immediate relief, then inhalation might be right for you such as Migraines, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, ADHD, ADD and severe Chronic Pain are conditions that might be best treated by inhalation. As of today, there are no other methods to get quicker relief.

 

Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol produced by heating a substance. Instead of burning marijuana (which occurs in smoking), the vaping device heats the material (can be liquid/oil or wax extracts, or dried flower/herb) into a vapor, which then condenses into an aerosol (a fine spray of particles) that you inhale.

 

Inhaling marijuana involves one of three methods:

1. Smoking
2. Vaporizing dried marijuana (traditional vaping)
3. Vaporizing oils (vape pens)

 

Smoking marijuana involves burning the dried flower and inhaling the smoke. The most common image that comes to mind when consuming marijuana is smoking. Various methods of smoking include joint, bong or pipe. About All Natural MD Florida, we recommend all routes of administration as it pertains to your medical marijuana doctors recommendation.

 

Edibles/Oral Administration

Eating your medicine or oral administration results in a very slow onset of action. Ingesting your marijuana can be done in 2 different ways. The first method involves taking gummies or capsules filled with THC oil. The second method will have you consuming food or drink infused with marijuana. These are referred to as edibles.

 

For gummies or capsule ingestion, this is a straightforward process. Take the gummies and swallow. The limiting factor is that there are only specific doses available. For example, a gummies may contain 10mg of THC or 5 mg CBD. You cannot open the gummies up and accurately take a half dose. This method does hide the taste of THC oil from your taste buds as the taste can be a deterrent for some people.

 

For edibles, you can purchase food or drink infused with marijuana, or make the product yourself. Common foods infused with marijuana are chocolates, gummy bears or brownies. People will also add marijuana oil to their tea or other drinks. Whether gummies or edibles, ingesting marijuana brings THC or CBD to the stomach. Once in the stomach, it is moved to the liver for processing. The amount and type of food in your stomach also affect the rate and amount of absorption. Once processed at the liver, the cannabinoids are ready to enter the bloodstream to produce therapeutic effects.

 

When consuming edibles, the onset of action is usually 2 hours and the effects can last 6-8 hours, sometimes even longer for some people. Edibles are an effective way to provide a dose of medicine spread out over a long period of time. A condition of chronic pain which is present all or nearly all the time may respond well to a long acting dose of edible THC or CBD. Ingesting your CBD can be a tasty way to consume medicine, but the amount of medication available after the liver completes its process is greatly reduced. Some literature suggests from 5-20% of the initial dose. For THC edibles, the liver converts the THC to a more potent form that has the potential to create more significant effects. The THC effects may not be felt for 2-3 hours, so do not take a second dose because you feel nothing. Contact the Marijuana Doctors at All Natural MD Florida today to learn more about getting your medical marijuana card certification. All Natural MD Florida. Call (800) 250-6737. We have locations to better serve you for your medical marijuana doctor recommendation in Lakeland, Orlando, Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Brandon and Tampa.

What is Tourette’s Syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a condition that is often seen as a laughing situation for few people. While it may be funny to watch someone ticking, it’s a condition that can be very distressing for the patient, and for people who are close to them. The condition causes the patient to perform actions and sounds without meaning to do so. The actions and sounds will often not be easy to notice as being part of a problem. This can include things like coughing and nose twitching. In other cases, the symptoms can be far more candid and can draw a lot of attention to the patient. This can include things like making awkward movements and or disturbing outburst and could leading to someone getting hurt accidentally.

 

Can Medical Marijuana Reduce Symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome

In 2003, the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience published a study about using medical marijuana on patients with Tourette syndrome (TS). To nobody’s surprise, it helped reduced the motor tics and disturbing outburst. According to another research article published in Behavioral Neurology, THC and CBD both showed promising signs for treating and controlling symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome in both adults and children.

To top it off, let’s not forget that different cannabis strains come with a range of calming effects that are helpful for those who struggle with sleeplessness, anger, obsessiveness, or anxiety – all of which accompany Tourette’s Syndrome. Both CBD and THC marijuana strains may relieve symptoms of TS depending on the individual case.

Medical marijuana can help reduce symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome and the following symptoms:

• Insomnia
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Restlessness
• Motor Tics
• Outburst

Researchers also believe that marijuana can and does decreases the number of motor tics in a similar way it does in patients with Tremors and/or Parkinson’s Disease. Many researchers think it has something to do with our endocannabinoid system, but there is still much more research and study to be done.

 

For many individuals with Tourette syndrome (TS), the medications available on the market do not help with their condition, or if they do will end up causing major side effects. Two small controlled trials have investigated the effect of oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a principal psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, in TS patients. While these trials have shown promising results, the effect sizes were not as large and consistent as those reported by patients with regards to inhaled cannabis (smoked or vaporized). The results as based on anecdotal evidence show the patients have much better improvement in their symptoms using smoking or vaping rather than using oral administration or another route.

 

Please Contact All Natural MD medical marijuana doctors in Florida to learn more or get started on medical marijuana treatment today. We have locations all over the State of Florida to assist you with your Florida medical marijuana card including locations in Sarasota, Bradenton, Tampa, Brandon, Lakeland, Orlando, Kissimmee and Lake Mary.

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