Cannabis Honey Oil

You’ve probably heard of honey oil, also known as cannabis honey, butane honey oil, and a bunch of other names, but what is honey oil?

What is cannabis honey oil?

Marijuana honey is a concentrated liquid form of marijuana made by stripping THC from quality bud. Think of it as “weed honey”: It’s not always yellow, and it tastes nothing like sugar, but it’s at least as sticky as honey and just as fun to use.

How to make cannabis honey oil

So how to make honey oil? It’s not the hardest project in the world, but not the easiest either.

Before we get into the process, because the butane you’ll be working with is highly flammable, we must advise you that you should always make honey oil outdoors with a plentiful supply of fresh air. Failure to do so can lead to dire consequences.

1. Grab your materials.  You’ll need some supplies, naturally. Ground pot (a fine grind but not powder), a solvent or other means of stripping THC honey from your pot, a Pyrex dish, two mason jars, coffee filters, a pot for boiling water, and if you use butane, a so-called honey bee extractor. This method will also require at least two cans of high-grade butane.

The extractor is a short cylinder, often PCP piping, with a screw cap on one end and a sealed cap on the other. The twist cap has several small holes, while the other end has a single hole. This is where you spray butane; the other end is where the resulting liquid drips out.

2.   Fill the filter tube with cannabis.  Start by unscrewing the extractor and filling it with ground weed. Make sure it’s not too loosely packed but not so tightly packed the butane can’t saturate every particle of pot. Put a piece of coffee filter on the inside of the screw cap and reattach it.

3.   Insert butane into the filter tube.  The next step in making butane honey oil is to insert the nozzle of a butane canister into the single hole at the end of the honey bee extractor and spray. Keep spraying the butane until the can is empty; a thick greenish liquid will drip through the coffee filter and out the holes in the screw cap. Let it drop into your Pyrex dish.

4.   Evaporate the butane.  Next, set the dish on top of a pot with boiling water. Don’t let the dish touch the water. The idea is to evaporate the butane from the cannabis honey, leaving an even stickier THC resin that is (relatively) safe to smoke and fun to use. This is the final product: “weed honey,” “honey oil,” whatever you want to call it (other common names include wax, shatter, and hash oil).

5.   Scrape and store your cannabis honey.  Once you’ve boiled off the butane, you’ll need to scrape the cannabis honey oil from the bottom of the dish. Use single-edged razor blades, and transfer the weed honey to small pieces of parchment paper. Let it dry and then move it to a stick-proof container found at almost any head shop – or just keep it folded up in the paper until you’re ready to light up.

Finally, the fun part. Find a way to smoke your oil, and then get baked! The “classy” way approach is a glass oil rig. But there are cheaper, simpler routes too, such as rolling a bit of honey into a joint or dabbing it onto a smouldering bowl.