REDUCTION INFUSED CANNABIS HONEY

This recipe makes a naturally sweet, rapidly delivered, tincture like medicine without having to use glycerin. This cannabis/honey elixir might be very good for children because of known and controllable low THC content, and easy to take taste. The ratios used in this recipe for this micro batch results in a final product with about 10mg/THC/ML. To compare, a single joint can have up to 200mg/THC. This medicine is also quite effective for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain relief in higher doses. I suspect it would also stop epileptic seizures, though I've not given it to anyone with that condition. So here's how you make it;

MATERIALS:
30ml Honey
2 grams well ground Cannabis with some trim and lower leaf if possible
Water as needed per recipe
Small stainless steel sauce pan
Basket coffee filter

Thoroughly mix Honey and about 1.5 cups hot water then pour into sauce pan. My picture shows one cup, but I added another half cup of water.
Next bring honey/water mix to a brisk boil, then add Cannabis. Set timer and simmer for 45 minutes. Monitor and stir frequently. The idea is you want to reduce it by about 2/3 by the time 45 minutes has elapsed. If more water is needed, simply add more boiling water. It should be boiling as to not drop the temp of honey/cannabis slurry while you are cooking it as proper decarboxylation depends on specific time/temp regimes.

After the 45 minute cook is done, remove mix from stove and let cool for 5 minutes, then strain mix with the basket coffee filter. I also have the little tea steeper shown in the pics, although it's not required.


Once the honey/cannabis has been strained, pour the filtered solution back into the cleaned pan and bring to a boil, then quickly back off to a low simmer. Set the timer for 15 minutes. Now any of you who have made maple syrup will be familiar with the next part and what the goal is. With the second cook we're reducing it to a syrup like consistency, and finishing the decarb process, and increasing the potency.


When it's done, with this micro batch you end up with about 40-50 ML of infusion, depending on how far you reduce it. I don`t prefer reducing it back to a 1/1 natural honey consistency, but instead prefer it more like maple syrup. It's easy to then dose and store small amounts in eye dropper tincture bottles.

FORMULA FOR CALCULATING THC CONTENT

As I do with all my recipes, time and temperatures used are based on the chromatographic chart below. Here's how to estimate total converted Delta-9 THC using that info. This Honey Cannabis Reduction Recipe used about 2 grams of cannabis that I know averages 22-24% THC-A. So using 22% in the two grams there are approx. 440mg/THC-A. For the most part at boiling 212F I can expect about 75-80% conversion of THC-A to THC-D9 in the hour long cook. So we've got 440 mg/THC-A x 80% for about 350mg/THC-D9. If we reduce it down to 50ml, as shown in my pic above, you've got 350mg/THC divided by about 50ml total solution, or about 7mg/THC/ml. I actually reduced this batch down to 40ml solution, hence the calculation above closer to 10mg/THC/ml.

NOTES

While I've been making my Cannabis Infused Coconut Oil for several years, this recipe is fairly new to me as I only started making it early this year and I haven't made a larger batch yet. I would think anything up to an oz would scale well and be able to adhere to the time/temp profile called for. Also the recipe can substitute cane sugar. For cane sugar, use one tsp to a gram of cannabis. As mentioned as long as the profiles are adhered to, use as much or little water as needed. Regarding the "grounds" I save them and use in my super anti-oxidant yogurt smoothies, and they can probably be used in a variety of other foods. I actually find they are the most medicinal form of cannabis I've used, both from this recipe and my Coconut_Oil/Cannabis infusion.

So I hope you know of somebody who can benefit from this naturally tasty easy to make Cannabis Medicine

thanks for the read!
Dan