How to Reuse Your Weed Stems: 5 Useful Ideas
After you have happily harvested and processed your cannabis buds, you need to determine what to do with the rest of your plant. For anyone, especially those who are keen about non-wastage of any part of the plants or saving money on your cannabis, there are few creative ways in which you could do this. One major way to achieve this is by finding things to do with every part of your cannabis plant and this includes the stems.
The stem of the cannabis plant only accumulates leftover resins from the flowers over time as it does not produce them itself. However, if you wish to fully utilize the properties it might contain, it is necessary to decarboxylate it by heating it in an oven for some time. This is usually done to produce more THC (a psychoactive compound) from its original form of THCA to give it extra strength for whatever you might subsequently use it for. For some, they choose to grind the stems with the cannabis buds and make use of them all while some prefer not to do so. For these set of people, we have specially curated a few ideas on how to reuse the cannabis stem.
Tea
Making a cannabis tea from your leftover stem is quite easy as you just need to add your chopped or ground cannabis stems into some milk or water, bring it to boil on low heat while stirring for some minutes before straining the stems out. Next, you can add your preferred sweeteners or herbs such as honey, sugar, or lemon to cover up its slightly unpleasant taste and voila your tea is ready to be enjoyed. To achieve maximum strength, you should ensure the stems have not yet been rubbed for the hash.
Liqueurs
Although there are already some cannabis-based wines and beers, making your cannabis liqueur is one of the few creative ways to utilize your stems. To do this, you will need to soak the stems into any alcohol of your choice as long as its concentration is at least 40%. This is because they are the ones capable of dissolving the resins left in the stem. To ensure a strong and effective liqueur, you can keep adding new stems and strain out the old ones for a while until you are satisfied with the result. Normally it’s supposed to be 1.5 grams of cannabis stems to every ounce of alcohol, you can decide to increase the measurement based on how high you want to get.
You can also experiment a little bit by making some bubble hash from leftover cannabis. First, you need to blend a large number of stems or break them down for use, then add it with some isopropyl alcohol (90%) into a jar, shake for a little while, and strain. Next, you should pour it into a glass dish and wait for some time to allow the liquid to evaporate. Once it has completely evaporated, you can scrape what is left in the bowl for smoking. You can speed up the process by putting a fan in front of the mixture or by placing the glass dish in a bowl of hot water.
Stem Paper
Cannabis is an industrial crop and can be used in making paper at home and you can use the plant’s stem for this. Getting recycled paper and blending them with your cannabis stems is the first step, next is to add some water until it becomes a pulp mixture. You can also decide to switch the process i.e. soaking the stems and paper first and then blending after. Pour the mixture out on a screen to drain the water for about a day and then hang to dry. You can use the paper to make a homemade greeting card and send to your loved ones.
Cannabis topicals have become somewhat popular because they have been found to help in stimulating the body’s endocannabinoid system, resulting in the rejuvenation of the skin and also useful for therapeutic purposes when applied to the skin. You can use the cannabis stems to make your topicals such as lotions, balms, and tinctures depending on which you prefer. All that needs to be done is to infuse the stems by heating them in any essential oil of your choice such as coconut, lavender, or peppermint oil. Then you strain and remove the stems and add some beeswax, almond or olive oil to form a base. You can decide to get creative with it and add your special oils or herbs based on the intended benefit you want it to have, mix it all and then pour into jars.
There are several other ways in which you could make good use of your cannabis stems so when next you have them leftover, think twice before getting rid of them!
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