I will delve into this convo....
I have recently been making my own butter using this machine that decarbs the flower and then you just add the butter and it blends it in fine.
It makes about 6 sticks of butter that I then just use a portioned square for my morning coffee or cook with.
The machine is called Alpha 420 I believe and it can make tinctures, oils, and gummies etc.
The potency all depends on how much herb you use for the amount of butter. Also the potency before decarbing.
To avoid the butter, I have recently been decarbing the flower (this is mandatory to get the THC activated and the longer you decarb, the more CBD, CBG, CBN you can bring out as well.) and then grinding it up even more and putting in about 0.25 - 0.3g of weed into regular empty capsules.
I at first thought that a 0.3g pill of regular herb would hit like a regular J, but it takes about a good hour, or closer to two hours to kick in, and it does. My biggest mistake was my first time. I took one at 12:30.... started to feel it hit around 2:00... but popped another in before going to costco, and then took a third around 4:00. That third one messed me up. and I was on the couch with a bit of a sweat and spins, but I just used that time to heavy meditate and just concentrate on my deep breathing. You gotta take it with some fatty food,..... avocado, peanut butter sandwich in the am are my go to, etc.
Since then I realise taking one pill in the 7:30am lasts me until around 3pm.
If you are looking for premade edibles that hit with 50mg etc. I have found those Medicine Wheel/Anishinabe indigenous stores in Toronto sell cheap hash and have good edibles that start at 50mg in many cases. I bought a 2500mg total pack of gummies made with pineapple express that were really good.
Making your own butter (with a unit that does it for you) is quite fun. The pills are also hella cheap to make and they pack a punch. You can mix the capsules in with turmeric, reishi, lions mane etc as well to give you a healthy kick to your capsule making.
