Cookin’ With Grass: Ride the Green Dragon – The Paper. Albuquerque’s independent news.

Making marijuana tincture is surprisingly easy, although it does require some attention due to the dangers associated with handling volatile substances.

Your choice of cannabis and alcohol will greatly influence the quality of your tincture, so be aware of the ingredients that you’re using.

Everclear is a popular brand with many DIY tincture makers, but there’s even “420” branded tincture alcohol out there these days made specifically for this purpose.

This stuff is technically made for human consumption, but people used to use it to clean machine parts—so keep that in mind while handling it.

This step is absolutely vital as without it, the THCA will never convert to THC.

…Read the full story