Wild foraging

[RatMan]

@awjt

Actually you are right. @RatMan? @shaddack? Who knows specifically what I did wrong and can deconstruct my mistake, chemically? What happens to THC when it’s soaked in Everclear?

If you don’t decarboxylate cannabis, the THC remains bound up as THC-a, which is not psychoactive. Last time this came up:

How to cook a marijuana marinated turkey

Actually, no. Failure to decarb the cannabis is the most common failure mode that I’ve run into when people make their own edibles. Some decarb action will happen, yes, but it will be inconsistent and hard to reproduce. It takes ~205-225F to break loose that carboxyl group. The oven may be at 350F, but only the outer two millimeters or so of what you’re cooking will ever see that temperature. Specifically in a turkey, the outer part of the skin heats to ~300-350F, where caramelization and …

And here are instructions on how to decarboxylate cannabis.

[Edit: popo’s suggestion is also a good one: in that situation, once you’ve screwed it up, you can salvage the situation by evaporating the liquid, then smoke up the gummy residue as a sort of pseudo-hash.]