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Does THC stay permanently active after heating one time?

Any grower who is trying to make money.

That's irrelevant to the question asked:
I just dont think that curing decarboxylates thc. Maybe ADD people could help?
A grower who's purely in it for the money wouldn't even bother with a cure most of the time anyways, it's dry and sell, sometimes not even drying.

Most places you look say that an optimal cure can take 3 months. The longer you cure, the better the bud. 3 months at 20 degrees celcius means ~12.5% is decarboxylated, 6 months ~25%, 9 months ~37.5% and a year ~50%.
 
I disagree that most people in it for profit dont cure their cannabis. Most of the U.S. cannabis (thats where i'm from) is coming from cali and other states with medical marijuana, this doesnt mean that the growers are all giving it the best they can but it does mean they have to rival compitition if they want to sell their product. I mean it doesnt matter that you have ganja if its shitty, no one will buy it so there is no profit.
At the same time no large scale grower is going to take the time and effort to cure buds for like 6+ months.
 
I agree. Noone in their right mind would sit on several kilo's of bud just for the sake of curing. But good bud doesn't necessarily have to be cured, some strains need a cure to produce that nice taste, but lot's of others don't, simply drying is enough.

But your question didn't specify any such things, you were wondering if a cure would have an effect on decarboxylation of the THC-COOH's, which it does.
 
^indeed that was not part of my original question but i felt it a relavent response to your post. Either way thank you very much for the clarification and info, you definitely seem to have a good handle on this.:)

So the consensus is that curing does cause decarboxylation of THCA but this is a slow process and the buds one gets do not have large amounts of decarboxylated thc unless a grower has been curing their bud for 1yr+ which is uncommon to obtain for many reasons, mostly economic.
 
So the consensus is that curing does cause decarboxylation of THCA but this is a slow process and the buds one gets do not have large amounts of decarboxylated thc unless a grower has been curing their bud for 1yr+ which is uncommon to obtain for many reasons, mostly economic.


Yes, although I would point out economy is not the driving point - time is. Curing for over a year is cool and all, but rather impractical. It's much like the settling in of Cigars. Enthusiastic cigar lovers will age their sticks for decades in a humidor or converted box fridge (vinotemp, or anything with a non-compressor type cooling system - keeps humidity stable), but you won't find aged cigars in shops because that is not something that is in high demand locally. It's also very difficult to gauge how much an aged cigar now costs - MSRP (or the black market, whatever regulation your product is using) would dictate aging does not increase/decrease value, but we all know it does to different degrees.

But as you would reason, time is money, so it's not just the impracticality of obtaining long-cured bud, but also the fact that it would need to be marked up for a marginal difference that many, many, many smokers would not care much about. It's hard to put a price on time.
 
As I understand it, when marijuana grows, the THC -- and perhaps other cannabinoids -- are bound to a carboxyl molecule (whatever the hell that means). Drying marijuana decarboxylates it. Decarboxylated weed has an increased bioavailability. Most marijuana sold isn't completely dried. Burning marijuana instantly decarboxylates it, however high heat is not necessary. Marijuana can be dried without any heat with desiccant, for example. So, drying activates weed, not heating per se.
 
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3 months at 20 degrees celcius means ~12.5% is decarboxylated, 6 months ~25%, 9 months ~37.5% and a year ~50%.
So, drying activates weed, not heating per se.

Well, it needs to be dry for you to be able to smoke it, so yeah, in that sense, drying "activates" it. Decarboxylation occurs readily (like 0.1 seconds) when exposed to high temperatures though (200 degrees celcius). So no, heat is required to decarboxylate the THC-COOH's.
 
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