Many will probably be surprised by this post on how to make cannabis butter, a product that in reality is more used that one would think. This plant has specific characteristics that can be used in many ways, from creating objects to making food. Oil, flour, pasta, bread, dressings and much more. Butter is among them but it is probably the least famous and sold product. We can make it at home with the right quantities of the ingredients needed. Cannabis butter will be perfect to flavour desserts such as brownies and space cake, just to mention two.
Being butter a basic and fat ingredient, it has the capacity to absorb the liposoluble cannabinoids such as THC and CBD. This means that it will be possible to season any dish by flavouring it with marijuana, and obtaining innovative and delicious meals. Below we can see how to make cannabis butter and the recipe requires about one hour to obtain the finished product, 15 minutes to prepare it and 45 to cook.
Here you can find what you need and how you can make the butter
Tools:
Spatula or large spoon
Saucepan or pan
Large bowl
Colander
Dishcloth
Airtight container
Ingredients:
7 grams of cannabis tops/heads
Ā½ cup of unsalted butter
Method:
The first step is to chop the decarboxylated cannabis given that it has to be reduced in fine powder. This way you will obtain a larger surface of marijuana that will be absorbed more easily.
Second step is melting the butter in a pan at low heat and then adding bit by bit the marijuana powder. Stir everything very carefully and every time you add some more powder. For vegans you can use coconut oil as an alternative to butter given that it has more or less the same features and it will give you the same results.
After 45 minutes the cooking should be completed and at this point you can pour the product in a large bowl while filtering everything with a colander. This passage is needed to remove the largest pieces of cannabis. Press well on the colander with a large spoon or a spatula to get all the product.
For extra filtering and to remove the residual marijuana you can use a dishcloth.
The result will be an intense green oil that will soon solidify becoming a nice stick of marijuana butter. To conclude, we recommend storing it in an airtight container and putting it in the fridge or freezer so you can use it anytime you need.
So we just discovered how to prepare cannabis butter that you can use to create many recipes with cannabis flavour. You can season pasta with it, you can use it to make biscuits, to add flavour to fish and meat and to use it for many other occasions and let your friends try it too! The recipe is easy and quick and with this butter you can season your usual meals and give it a new taste and a new life!
Cannabis social clubs in Madrid, discover the reality in the Spanish capital!
Despite being ahead of many other European capitals, the information that people get about Madridās cannabis social clubs is wrong and misleading. Reality is quite different from the perception of visitors and the reason is poor and negative information. In this post we will sum up the most important points about this reality related to social clubs so as to break false myths and false information unrelated to reality.
The first four points:
It is common to think that there are just a few and low quality clubs in Madrid however there are between 80 and 100 of them all over the capital.
People often are unsure whether they need to be Spanish or not to join the clubs. It is not necessary to be Spanish as anyone can join and the only requirement is the referral from an already existent member.
Many people ask themselves if cannabis social clubs in Madrid differ from the ones in Barcelona. No, as far as bureaucracy and administration are concerned there is no difference. Also in terms of management there are no major differences therefore the mechanism is the same.
To many the cannabis social clubs in Madrid may sound as something new. This is not accurate though given that they have been in the capital for some years already. The difference is that they have not been spoken about widely or clearly.
Things are never like they tell us:
The lie of faeces contained in the hashish being sold in Madridās cannabis social clubs. This is the sensational bullshit that came out in a study conducted in 2018 where they analysed hashish sold in the streets instead of the one sold in the clubs. However, as it happens frequently, the news have been communicated in the wrong way and interpreted even worse. Obviously hashish bought in the street cannot even be compared to the products sold in the clubs. It is normal to find faeces in stuff bought in the streets given that drugs are smuggled the way you can imagine, itās old drugs story! This situation has been associated to clubs but it clearly has nothing to do with them!
There is no product variety in Madrid. This is again bullshit spreading online. In reality the quality of the products sold in the cannabis social clubs in Madrid is excellent and has nothing to envy to the products available in other cities. In the clubs you can find different varieties of flowers produced by Spanish farmers with extreme care. You can also find extracts, essences, dyeing products and many more thingsā¦ Nothing is missing!
Much easier than you imagine:
The fear of running risks by joining a club. This is fake news circulating online and obviously there are no risks in joining a cannabis social club in Spain. This is because the possession and the personal use of cannabis is not a crime and will never be prosecuted. The maximum risk is being fined for a few hundreds euros if you get caught. Anyway, the story ends here and there are no imprisonments nor policemen with guns pointed at you, those things only happen in movies. If you want to learn more, read our guide here.
Is it hard to join a cannabis club in Madrid? This is probably the most interesting point. No, it isnāt hard at all: the minimum age required might differ from club to club (18 to 21 years old) but the rules are always the same. Both in Madrid and Barcelona you need to be referred by an already existing member, need the minimum age and bring with you an ID to prove it in order to enter the cannabis social clubs.
To conclude
There are many clubs in the Spanish capital and many of them are state-of-art. The rules are the same everywhere in Spain without distinction. The fake news circulating is of course false and many times completely opposite to reality.
Whatās true is that in Madrid there are amazing clubs where you can enter and spend your time with other members and share the pleasure of smoking without problems, guaranteed!
Cannabis supply chain, the new business is just going up in flames?
Itās agriculture, the cannabis farmers say. Definitely it is not magic or tricks: they plant a seed, they take care of it and let a harmless plant grow, a plant that is miraculously good for the health with all its benefits and collateral implications. Nowadays canapa is, or was (weāll see what happens) realizing a little economic miracle, by offering the possibility of an employment to many people, mainly young, but also to many farmers who converted after seeing in canapa a way to have their work more recognised. If you think about the big companies that pay 10 cents per kilo to farmers for tomatoes, you can understand that weed is more interesting given the same amount of effort and dedication.
This is to say that the situation is a little bit shit, that as usual was created in Italy and that is only bringing more issues and damages, harming the cannabis supply chain. The current situation is that both the farmers and the coffee shop owners are a little ass-tight because they do not know what to do, especially after having invested money for their dream of creating revenue that the State cannot guarantee. Forget about basic income, here we are talking about tens of employers who contribute to give new jobs with a substantial turnover.
Will a business doubling every year disappear?
This is the core of the story, does the State really want to erase a business that generates employment, income of 22% of VAT plus taxes, besides giving hope to many people? Is it even possible nowadays that people are so dumb to forbid cannabis with a THC percentage of 0.5%? Whoever wants this is definitely mentally unstable and does not even take into account the healing benefits of marijuana, now accepted and recommended by many doctors. This represent a big problem for thousands of Italians who few years ago saw in marijuana the opportunity of employment and of a future.
There are many intertwined dynamics that somehow are going towards an improvement of the society. Yes, because smoking weed legally, or in a controlled way by the government, has a huge impact on illegal drug dealing as well. It strongly hits criminality too, the one that gains from the prohibition of cannabis and that does not pay taxes. Actually, illegal revenues create even more illegality, which goes against the innocent canapa with a mere THC level of 0.5%.
Obviously not seeing this equals to being culturally blind or in bad faith, which makes us think really badly about the real motives. Anyway, letās think positive because thinking that institutions might take measures against light canapa to favour the illegal marijuana gives us the shivers. Better not to think about it.
Why supporting the supply chain of cannabis
First of all, because it would be a sacred principle of freedom, then because there is nothing dangerous about canapa that does not contain any active substances. Could essences, oils, perfumes, flour ever represent a threat to health or public order? We are talking about natural products, most of the times coming from bio farming and extremely controlled. Shall we check for all the chemicals similar products from traditional supply chains contain? At this point is really hard and complex to understand all the mess that is being created around the cannabis supply chain, plus we are immersed in a huge paradox because those activities linked to the commercialization of canapa, now under constant scrutiny, have been authorized by the State.
If they become illegal today, the State has violated the ālawā given that it authorised its sale and commercialization before. This is the usual āDantesqueā Underworld crackdown in a country that struggles more and more to find a little bit of normality, peace and cultural rebirth. For all these reasons, a functioning mind finds it hard to understand all this unjustified mess, justified only by the absolute ignorance of who is leading this non-sense battle. In the next following weeks we should get some news on the direction this story should take and of course we hope in collective awareness. In the meantime, farmers will be standing still, coffee shops will be closed and thousands of people will be scared of losing their job or enterprise. Do you think this is a normal country?
Institutions should support, not forbid
Once said that the level of the active substance contained in canapa is in a small and harmless percentage, there is no reason for fines, bans or restrictions on the products. The cannabis supply chain is controlled since its source, directly in the fields up until the coffee shops counters. The possibility of being āoutlawā is basically null; actually, to be precise, the business in its entirety largely contributes to legality. This legality occurs also with the fight against the undergrowth of illegal drug dealing to minors, the real plague of illegal marijuana. Young people represent the vulnerable part of the society that can be easily manipulated and induced towards other substances, obviously for the interests of whoever deals drugs.
Thanks to the cannabis supply chain and the legal distribution of the product, regulated by the State, all the illegal trafficking disappears like snow in the sun. It is definitely easier and more socially acceptable going to coffee shops rather than to the parks where pushers sell without any rules. We are creating a world without all the filth we have seen and that we know and we really cannot understand why people want to go back at all costs.
It does not make any sense. In the meantime, light canapa producers are waiting with bated breath and do not know what is going to happen, and definitely this is not a situation a developed and civilized country should face.
Whoever makes the law should try to empathise and try to put themselves in the shoes of the people who made a lot of sacrifices and who are investing everything to create a job opportunity. Unfortunately this is hard to understand for the people seating in the Parliament, who decide the countryās fate therefore allowing all our hopes to go up in flames.
Oh yes, Italy is a very weird country: first the crusade against cannabis infusions and candies, now everything is back to being legal up to 0.5% of Thc. Well, changing idea is a sign of intelligence and understanding of the world. Definitely the problem is that ideas travel fast, donāt you remember Salviniās rage few weeks ago?
After that pre-electoral statement (well done to the marketing genius who thought of it) controls and seizures followed in many Italian cities. These measures resulted in many young entrepreneurs giving up their dream of growing a business or having a job.
Those were days full of organized and spontaneous demonstrations that delighted the media and that saw thousands of tight-ass people protesting due to the statements of the āironā Minister. In the end it was the usual misunderstood farce.
Now letās get to the news that overturns all the turbulence against cannabis: the decision of the Cassation made last 30th of May. This sets the rule that light cannabis cannot be seized without prior warning if it cannot be proved that the level of Thc is above 0.5%. This means that it is not possible to seize anything unless proven and certified that the cannabis being sold in the shops exceeds the limit. I wonder how Minister Salvini is feeling about this given that according to his modus operandi he would even seize chamomile.
The episode that led to the decision
In Rapallo (Italy), policemen seized goods of all types in one of the cannabis shops such as florets, oils, infusions and sativa leaves. The unlucky shop owner obviously opposed the seizure, asking for a revision of the case.
The owner won the case and got the authorization to get back all the seized goods, a real tragedy otherwise. This is how things work when no one knows shit about anything and just try to be the āsheriffsā of Toyland.
Definitely things got better after this judgment and the decision is an example finally in favour of people who want to do business with cannabis. The cannabis business is just another way to make a living, just like selling alcohol, cigarettes and medicines as if they were candies, which is the norm nowadays. In other words, the judgment confirms the legality of cannabis below or equal to 0.5% of Thc, just like it used to be.
However, there is now a substantial difference represented by the fact that no policeman can seize anything without prior warning. To do so they would need to be sure that the level of Thc is superior to the one allowed by law. Chill people! No one has broken any rules nor with infusions nor with anything else being sold in coffee shops, therefore letās smoke a little bit š
What happens next?
Nothing, everyone goes back to ānormalityā and now that the European election campaign is over, Salvini managed to get what he wanted and everyone is happy, right? Well, maybe you wanted the big titles on the newspapers and many apologies but you know how journalists are: they do not write news but they are told what to write! So, letās be happy about this achievement even without too much noise and letās go back to our work: there is still a lot to do and we are just at the beginning. From now on, backed by this verdict, we can request to have someone analysing samples of our products whenever we are threatened of seizure. On the basis of this legal āweaponā confirmed by the revision, I strongly believe that the urge of seizing will decrease more and more overtime.
Too much of an hassle: you would need the warrant, would have to call the personnel to collect samples, analyse them, wait for the results, just to find out that everything is below the 0.5% of Thc. If youāre interested in starting a business of this type, treasure this fanciful Italian story and keep it in mind as it could always come handy. This episode has proven the legality of cannabis that is now a certified fact, obviously within the legal limits that have not changed.
Legal cannabis, I wonder what detractors thinkā¦
All this drama proved to be a farce of old times that only created problems and headaches to the Italian coffee shop owners. However, itās worth remembering once again that no one has even got sick of cannabis. Shall we mention how many people got sick due to alcohol and cigarettes instead? This is the whole point: everyone just looks at the finger but not at the moon and you know why? Because the finger is way closer than the moon.
Letās take note of all this and letās move on. Reason and truth have always triumphed against any tyrants and impostors therefore we are on the right track. Cannabis is legal nowadays and it has always been but unfortunately winners, or whoever controls the media, write history. Today all of us control the media, given that the Web and the Internet give a voice to everyone and truth travels as fast as blood in our veins. This is to say that today we are the ones making history because we are collectively interconnected in that enormous ābrainā that is the memory of online bits.
There will definitely be other sheriffs who will go hunting but who canāt do anything in practice. Do you remember the Prohibitionism of the early century? Alcohol was being sold in the basements of big American cities just to end up on the shelves of supermarkets. Itās the market baby, and legal cannabis will end up the same way. Maybe one day we will be able to buy it in the veggies department! For now letās settle for smoking legally in one of the many coffee shops available.
It would be ridiculous if it wasnāt so dramatic: it only took few bullshit said by the Minister to make cannabis illegal again in Italy! The Minister of the Interior Salvini claims that smoking or eating cannabis-based cookies is unhealthy. It only took a couple of weeks plus the electoral success of Lega, led precisely by Salvini to get the āreverenceā of the Cassation.
Maybe it was only a way not to hurt the sensitivity of the Minister on the matter. Yes, because only few months ago, at the beginning of February, the same Cassation ruled that light cannabis was legal, nullifying any seizures harming the stores and establishing and confirming the legality of the product.
The reverse action seems only āobsequiousā, or a sort of āwe are on your sideā message to the Minister. This seems to be the situation, which gives us reasons to think about the episode but also about Justice in general. The paradox is that few months ago the seizure led to confirming its legality but now another seizure is completely overturning the situation.
It seems like in Italy things are not working right, that the system is down and that the only ones to pay for this are its citizens.
Itās funny how the speed and the combination of Salviniās bullshit about cannabis make us thinkā¦ Andreotti once said āThinking the worst is a sin, but more often than not you guess it rightā. Here the bad thought is that turning down light cannabis and making it illegal leads us to an extraordinary ācoincidenceā: Salvini wants to ban and declares war to all ādrugsā and at the same time the Cassationā¦ Maybe Andreotti was right?!
The current and future economic damage
This story has also heavy consequences on the economy; in fact we are talking about 800 shops that are basically illegal now. These shops that sell light cannabis have now become illegal and outlaw out of the blue. Tell me now if this is not absurd. It is a story worth a Disney movie.
However, the damage is not only done against ships, but also against producers and all the business turnover. It is a big damage: Salvini has said a lot and done a lot of damage to the point that Cassation has decided to go for the legitimacy of his statements. Itās ridiculous, I know, but Italy seems like a country destined to permanent damage. No wonder young people flee from their homeland!
Besides all this current economic disaster, this situation also damages the future growth potential. Yes, because the sector is in sustained rise and definitely these games are not helping those who would like to start a business and open their own store. The damage is not only focused on the present but it is even bigger if we look at the future and at the growth potential of the sector. And then they say that weāre undergoing a crisis and that there are no jobsā¦ We are witnessing anĀ all-singing, all-dancing attitude that is not working at all! If this three-dimensional status is confirmed, the cannabis production sector will get punched in the stomach.
Letās remember that cannabis is not only joints!
This is to say that with the cannabis plant you can make hundreds of different things, besides weed for joints. Itās good to remember that it is free of THC therefore free of the active substance, so harmless. Moreover, even the pharmaceutical and medical sectors are starting to prescribe therapeutic cannabis to their patients. What now? We can also assume that soon the number of āillā people in Italy will increase. If light cannabis remains illegal, many people will use this as an excuse. Letās talk about Italy then.
Now, someone should explain to us, possibly in easy words, the reason why a harmless product should be illegal. We already wrote it in other posts: how come Cassation does not declare alcohol or cigarettes illegal? Maybe because Salvini smokes and drinks? The outcome of the Cassation seems like an extraordinarily exaggerated decision. In 2016 the law was regulating the sale and allowing the regular trade and cultivation of canapa as an agricultural plant.
Whatās wrong now then? Easy, the Thc level, the substance that creates psychotropic effects, present in a percentage between the 0.2% and the 0.6% is superior to the one allowed. In other words, according to the Cassation, light cannabis becomes illegal because the tolerance percentage is not referred to the products but rather to the active substance of the plant, therefore its sale is not allowed according to the law 242 of 2016.
Extremist positions and a prohibitionism mentality
The Ministerās statements have been strict and firm: no drugs without any exceptions. āYou can have fun without drugsā, he said. On the same wavelength also Meloni, another politician with double morals, deemed light cannabis illegal but gave the green light to alcohol and cigarettes. I can already imagine them burning canapa in the squares with whiskey bottles just like sheriffs used to do in the time of Al Capone.
It seems like being in a comedy show that does not make you laugh, but rather makes the lives of many people hard as they see their businesses destroyed even without joints.
What else to add? We are shocked by the constant change of things and decisions taken by the few for millions of people almost as if they were under psychotic effect. Yes, because otherwise we could not explain certain absurd, contradictory and persecutory situations. We are witnessing a social deterioration and this is definitely not due to cannabis because in fact there are no deaths due to cannabis. Instead, can Salvini and Meloni say the same thing about cigarettes and alcohol? Of course not, yet every year they kill thousands of people but no one serves as sheriff against whoever sells or produces alcohol and cigarettes.
We just got back to the obscurantism: light cannabis is illegal. Take note!
This is one of those questions that more and more consumers ask themselves: what does Spanish law say about cannabis? Letās try to give some information to better understand how this matter is being dealt with in Spain. Letās start by saying that marijuana is legal but we need to clarify that it is only so in Cannabis Social Clubs. You can forget about buying or consuming it open-air just like normal cigarettes. The law, or better, the law on cannabis in Spain offers the possibility to consume and produce it, but only under specific conditions. As we already mentioned, you can only consume cannabis in clubs where you need to be a member and pay a subscription fee.
In other words, you can create a cooperative specialized in growing the plants that then sell their crops to the different clubs spread throughout Spain. It is a system that works extremely well: on one side the production and on the other the consumer retail. In between there is law enforcement and public authorities that control everything to avoid issues that could lead to the collapse of the system.
Not only this type if legal liberalisation offers an easier control to the authorities but it also contributes to reduce the crimes connected to it. Becoming a member of one of the clubs is the only way to access cannabis legally without fearing to be caught because of smoking. This is a very positive achievement, however, it is important to keep in mind that it Spain is not Toyland given that consumption is not allowed outside clubs. Keep this in mind to avoid running risks.
It is forbiddent to smoke marijuana on the street
Smoking on the street is a mistake to be avoided but that many people make, even just for fun. Big mistake! Police meticulously controls that no one is smoking in public places or on the street. These controls can also create some problems that could be avoided because of the waste of time and the ārideā to the police station. The consequences donāt stop there given that who gets caught will have to pay a fine of ā¬300, get a report that will be filed. Letās sum up: you cannot smoke on the street because if you get caught you will have to pay two zeroes sums!
Moreover, cannabis law in Spain also prohibits the possession of marijuana, without any minimum quantity. It is forbidden, end of the story. There is no easy way to manage to do this, unless you go in one of the many Cannabis Social Clubs to smoke freely and without problems. Here you can smoke, relax and enjoy the pleasure of smoking without controls or restrictions as they are the only happy islands allowed by law where free consumption is allowed.
This is the only way you can avoid being sanctioned or having unpleasant experiences with the police that can keep you even for hours. So please do not follow the āeasy suggestionsā online without any foundation: we are here, in Barcelona and we directly deal with this reality everyday. Yes, Spanish law offers the possibility of consuming it, but remember that you can only do so in authorised coffee shops, otherwise you can be liable for your actions. To whoever believes it is only necessary to show that you bought the marijuana in the coffee shops and believes to be following the law, remember that you are wrong and that this is not how law works.
The differences with Amsterdam
The Netherlands was the first country in Europe to hold the monopoly of light drugs, particularly Amsterdam, but nowadays compared to Spain they seem to have lost their ranking. The law on cannabis in Spain has started a real cultural revolution, not only in the country but all over Europe. Right now Barcelona is the city that more than any other understood this new wave of cultural liberalism, far from fake and hypocrite prohibitionism dogmas. In Spain rules are precise: you can consume but not on the street, and if you are caught even with a minimal quantity, your marijuana is seizes and you get fined. Nothing bad of course, but itās good to keep in mind to avoid these type of situations with the local authorities.
The next step will probably be this: legalising also the possession and personal use just like it happened with cigarettes. If you go around with a pack you are fine, but if you go around with a whole box, unless youāre a retailer, you will have consequences in the case of marijuana. We are at a crossroad and for sure the coffee shop option seems like the best path to take, at least to stigmatise a cumbersome culture. The law on cannabis in Spain is relatively new and it is normal that with time it will be improved. It is always like this because it is impossible to predict all the variables of each social change regulated by new laws.
Cannabis in cannabis coffee shops
For whoever goes to Spain and wants to try the experience in one of the many cannabis coffee shops, we can say that it will be exactly the way you expect it to be. A real cultural experience that puts emphasis on the free individual choice, though with the above mentioned limits, but still allowing freedom. Now itās time for you to choose you nice cannabis coffee shop and to enjoy a great moment of relaxation in peace. We must say that the law on cannabis in Spain is well structured because it puts in relation local producers with local authorised retailers selling in authorised shops.
Consuming marijuana means incentivising Spanish farmers that are growing year by year, with clear benefits for the economy. In other words, the law on cannabis in Spain is not casual given that beyond the legal market of canapa there is also a system that produces other income for the State. With respect to tourism, it is a strong incentive because tens of thousands of youngsters and adults come to Barcelona and then spend their money in the city in restaurants, bars, hotels and all those infrastructures related to tourism and entertainment.
It is definitely not a law done overnight and definitely there is room for improvement but it produces many positive effects that also give the country and Barcelona an aura of social and cultural openness like few other places in the world. This is something not to underestimate, especially if this change can give the country an image of modern and socially evolved place as this will mean that the benefits will last for decades.
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