It's the process in making "cannabutter", and ingredient. It's legal to have get a medical marijuana card in Calif. for medical reasons, as assessed by a doctor. Cannabutter is basically brewing medical marijuana in a butter and water solution at 300 degrees for a period of 24 hours. You place your deisred quantity of the mj with butter in a jar, with water. An Indica or Indica hybrid typically hybrid of mj works best for sleep. I prefer 3/4 oz mj to a pound of butter, so you could also brew 3/8 oz in a half pound of butter. The solution must be brewed for 24 hours to extract the mj crystals off of the buds. These crystals are soluble in either butter or alcohol. Once the solution has brewed for 24 hours, it's set in the fridge overnight. Next day you'll see the now green butter on top, with cloudy water underneath. Remove solid, and place in freezer in sealed bag until you need to use it. I use 1/2 stick of this butter (2 oz) in the Paula Deen hard candy recipe. Place ingredients, include now green butter, into pan. Heat to 305 degrees, checking with a candy thermometer. Remove from heat, quickly mix in one small box of SF jellow. Pour the hot mixture into a mold fast, as it starts getting hard in 2-3 minutes. I used those small 1/2 inch square ice cube molds made of silicone. Cost about $10 on Ebay for 2 of them. This recipe makes two trays of these medicated candy lozenges. I spray a cooking spray on a spatula, and scrape mixutre over mold to fill in cube voids. It sets up in about 30 minutes. I then use a pastry brush to brush off any excess butter that isn't abosrbed in the recipe. Usually I have about 20 % of the 2 oz left. I brush the remnant butter it into a custard bowl, let it set up for a few hours, remove it and save it for the next batch. Remove cubes, and you may have to break some of the pieces apart. I put the pieces in a sealable Lock and Lock bowl, adding a little bit of powdered sugar. This abosrbs any remnant butter so it doesn't stick to ther pieces. I use one of these to lay down for about an hour with headache meds. I keep this bowl in a bedside safe for safekeeping. To sleep at night, I use 2 of these pieces with my script sleep meds. The sleep meds fail to work well by themselves, but work well with the lozenges. I let them dissolve under my tongue. Don't eat anything just before taking them, as it diminshes their effect. I'm not a "pot head" by any means, but resorted to this to be able to rest this past year after years of insomnia post op. DAVE
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