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Home cannabis infusion follows a simple workflow. Source your flower, master each step, and you can make any edible — from simple cannabutter to precision-dosed tinctures.

Plan / start hereYour job: Work out which end of the process you're actually standing at.

Source Your Flower

Get lab-tested CBD, delta-8, or hemp flower — the raw material for every infusion.

The quality of your starting material determines the quality of your finished product. A lab-tested label tells you the cannabinoid content of the flower you started with, which is the only number in the whole process you don't have to estimate.

Varies Easy

Decarboxylate

Activate the cannabinoids in your flower through controlled heat.

Raw cannabis contains THC-A, which isn't psychoactive. Decarboxylation converts it to THC through heat — without this step, your edibles won't work. It's the most important 30 minutes of the whole process.

30–45 min EasyStuck? No oven? Decarb anyway →

Choose Your Base

Pick your carrier — butter, coconut oil, or alcohol for tinctures.

THC is fat-soluble, so it needs a carrier to bind to. Your choice of base determines what you can make: butter for baking, oil for cooking, or alcohol for tinctures and gummies. Each has different shelf life and versatility.

5 min decision Easy

Infuse

Combine decarbed flower with your carrier using time and temperature.

This is where THC transfers from the plant material into your butter, oil, or alcohol. The key variables are time, temperature, and ratio. Our guides give you the specific times and temperatures we use for each method.

1–4 hours Easy–MediumStuck? If it comes out weak →

Calculate Dosage

Use our calculator to determine mg per serving.

Knowing your potency is the difference between a pleasant experience and an overwhelming one. Our calculator takes your flower's THC percentage, weight, and carrier volume and estimates mg per teaspoon. The arithmetic is exact; how much actually transferred into your carrier is not, so treat the result as an estimate.

2 min EasyStuck? How many mg in my edible? →

Apply in Recipes

Turn your infusion into gummies, brownies, drinks, or savory dishes.

Now you have an infusion you know the estimated strength of — use it. Each recipe on our site specifies which base it requires and links back to the dosage calculator so you can determine per-serving potency.

15 min – 2 hours Easy–MediumStuck? If gummies won't set →

Total Estimated Time

4–6 hours active

Plus overnight for butter to solidify, or 2 hours for gummies to set. Most of the time is hands-off waiting.