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Issue #346 - Sunday, December 2, 2018
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Cannabis Capsules are a great way to safely make edibles that are as potent as you'd like them to be. Cannabis Capsules (also known as Canna Caps) only have 2 ingredients (weed and coconut oil) in them, so you know exactly what you're ingesting with each dose!
- Get everything you need to make your own cannabis capsules at home! If you haven't tried canna caps yourself, you are definitely missing out!
- Today's trophy pic is from a first-time grower who absolutely nailed it! I'm always so impressed by what our readers can accomplish!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
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Learn How to Make Your Own
Cannabis Capsules!
by Sirius Fourside
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Many thanks to Old Hippie, whose tutorial taught me this recipe on how to make cannabis oil caps. You can check out his original article here!
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Cannabis has been gaining more and more legal ground with Americans lately. Well over half of US states have legalized “medical marijuana” in some form, eleven states have already legalized cannabis across the board, and many more states are
already talking about legalization in future ballots.
Canadians love weed just as much; they went even further and made it legal for adults across the entire country! How great is that!
Unfortunately, this rising popularity also comes with people getting into the business of providing “medicine” that isn’t quality checked. We know another cannabis advocate who was hospitalized shortly after using a cannabis extract that still contained isopropyl alcohol!
Luckily, you can make your own extracts using items that are 100% safe for consumption!
In this article, you will learn to make cannabis caps using only cannabis and coconut oil as the ingredients. And not only are cannabis caps safe to consume, they’re also safe to make! There is no fire or flammables involved; the most dangerous part is baking your cannabis in an oven at 225°F(107°C)! Let’s get started!
The caps pictured above are super-potent! We used almost an ounce of weed to make these 25 cannabis capsules!
Warning: This Will Stink Up Your House
The process of decarboxylating and cooking your cannabis in oil will make something that can only be described as ‘an insanely potent cannabis smell’. Our solution (since we don’t share vents/air with neighbors) is to keep the smell bottled up in our house for the entire cooking time while running a fan + carbon scrubber combo. Once the caps are done and the smell isn’t being actively produced any longer, we let the fan and scrubber run for a bit longer and
filter the remaining smell before opening any doors or windows.
Cooking Time: 5 hours
Short Version (full instructions below)
- Break up cannabis
- Cook it in an oven at 225° F for 1 hour to decarboxylate cannabis (“release” cannabinoids). It will stink! Don’t skip this step or the caps won’t be as potent.
- Grind up decarboxylated cannabis to a powder
- Mix ground cannabis with coconut oil in crock-pot
- Cook on Warm setting for 3 hours
- Strain oil and put oil in caps with Cap-M-Quik kit
How to Make Cannabis Caps
1.) Preheat your oven to 225° F.
2.) Line the baking sheet with aluminum foil. This prevents cannabis from becoming stuck to the sheet.
3.) Measure out 5.5g of cannabis buds/trim (we’ll assume they’re buds from here on).
4.) Lightly grind your buds/trim so they cook more evenly.
- Food processor: Low setting for 5 seconds.
- Grinder (or by hand): Grind pieces to pinky-nail size or smaller.
5.) Spread your ground-up buds over the aluminum foil on the baking sheet.
6.) Place the baking sheet in your oven and set a timer for 1 hour.
- This is where it starts getting really smelly!
- Cooking time: 1 hour
- While you’re waiting, move on to steps 7 and 8.
7.) Plug in your crock-pot. It will turn on and immediately start heating, but it takes a while to fully heat up.
8.) Measure 60ml (1/4 cup) of virgin coconut oil and add it to the crock-pot. You can leave it heating up while your bud is cooking.
9.) Remove the dried cannabis from the oven and grind it up again to a fine powder.
- Food processor: High setting for 20 seconds.
- Hand Grinder: Grind buds to super small pieces
10.) Add the ground-up bud to the crock pot. There should be enough coconut oil to completely submerge the weed.
11.) Stir the mixture and allow it to cook for 3 hours.
- I’ve allowed the mixture to cook in the crock-pot overnight for convenience, but I didn’t really notice much difference in potency compared to leaving it for 3 hours. Cooking longer than 3 hours doesn’t seem to help or hurt.
- Stir the mixture about once an hour; don’t use plastic to stir the mixture!
12.) Set up your Cap-M-Quik per the directions on the back of the box.
- Most cap-filling machines come with a “tamper” which is used to pack the caps with more material. You won’t need the tamper for this since you’re working with a liquid instead of dry herb.
13.) Set up 50 capsules in the Cap-M-Quik per the instructions on the back of the box. The tops of each cap should be held in one of the two containers so they don’t get lost.
14.) Cut off a square of cheesecloth. It should be a bit more than twice the width of the microwave-safe container.
15.) Fold the cheesecloth in half (so it’s twice as thick) and place it over the container. Hold the cheesecloth in place with a rubber band. You’ll use this to strain your oil mixture.
16.) Unplug the crock-pot and let it sit for 15 minutes so everything can cool a bit.
17.) Slowly pour or spoon all the contents of the crock pot onto the cheesecloth. The oil should slowly drip/pour into the container.
18.) Untie or cut the rubber band(s) from the container without letting the cheesecloth fall in. Bundle up the bud, and squeeze as much oil as you can from the cheesecloth/bud. Make sure all the oil goes through the cheesecloth so it filters out the bud. Be careful because the oil is probably very hot!
- If you don’t want to squeeze it in your hands (again, it’s hot!), you could place the cheesecloth over a mesh strainer and mash the bud down to get as much oil as you can.
- Don’t worry about getting a little bud in the caps, it won’t harm you.
19.) Throw out the wrung-out bud into your garbage disposal if you have one, and securely dispose of the cheesecloth.
20.) Use the tapered syringe to to suck up the cannabis-laden coconut oil, and gently fill the caps one at a time. Be careful not to overfill the caps.
- If the syringe gets blocked up, squirt some oil back into the container to clear the blockage so you don’t unleash a huge gush of oil on your capsules.
21.) Close the capsules (full instructions on the back of the Cap-M-Quik). Basically, you’re just taking the tops of the capsules from before, and putting them on the bottoms you’ve just filled up. When you put the tops on the caps, you
should notice a *snap* as it clicks securely in place.
- You may need to press harder than you’d guess to get the caps to *snap*. It’s caused by two ridges connecting to keep the two sides of the cap together.
- If you overfilled any caps, don’t worry. Continue closing the caps, and when you’re done, empty the finished caps onto a paper towel and gently clean any excess oil off your capsules.
22.) Place the finished caps into a container and refrigerate until you’re ready to use them. You can eat them straight from the fridge without thawing. The caps will turn a lighter color after they’re cooled, due to the coconut oil solidifying.
- You can also keep them outside the fridge, but they may start to melt if it gets really hot.
- I’ve used capsules that were in my refrigerator for over a year and they were still potent!
There you have it! You should have about 50 (depending on the chef) cannabis pills ready for consumption. Remember that the amounts used in this tutorial are just a guide. You could easily adjust this recipe to make more caps, and to make them much weaker or stronger.
This is what Canna Caps look like after they’ve cooled off…
All that dark stuff is cannabis oil!
Get What You Need To Make Your Own
Cannabis Caps!
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Cannabis Capsules are an amazing extract because they're easy to use, safe to make, and they can made as strong as you want them to be.
You might already have some of the stuff you need to get started making your own caps. If you have a baking sheet, aluminum foil, rubber bands, 2 containers, and (most importantly) some weed, you're already halfway there!
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