So, I’ve been using cannabis for about 35 years but for the past few years my lungs cannot tolerate vaping, dabbing, and barely smoking, so I'm mostly reduced to edibles, but as we all know edibles can be wildly variable and have a loooooong time to come on and then last an uncomfortable amount of time. I also must have a low amount of whatever enzyme converts THC, because I’ve always had to take giant 300mg or more doses to get anywhere and then it took at least 2 hours to really come on. Then if I took it later than about 4pm, I’d be super sleepy the next morning—the couple of times I used THCO in regular edibles, I couldn’t hardly get moving until about noon the next day.

So, I needed something better, and I was seeing this water soluble stuff sold by vi***u, but not much discussion about it, so I did a little research and figured out how to make any distillate in to an easy to use, fast acting water soluble(ish) flavorless powder.

So far, my favorite way to use this powder is to mix it with a hot liquid. I drink coffee and tea, so that makes it pretty convenient. It melts really well in to hot liquid, not quite as well in to cold, but if you throw it in to a blender with some milk and chocolate syrup or quik, you can’t tell at all. I’m sure it would work well in many other things—I’m looking forward to experimenting For me it starts coming on within about 15 minutes and full on at about 30 minutes at most, and even more importantly for me, even if I take it as late as 6pm, I’m able to be up and around at 6 or 7 am without any excessive grogginess.

I'm taking about 1/3 to 1/2 the mg dosage that I used to take with coconut oil based edibles. I used to take up to 300 or more, but with this method, as low as 75 gets me a little bit, and 150ish seems to be a pretty sweet spot.

The “magical” ingredient in this recipe is Maltodextrin which is a sugar/carbohydrate powder that is an ingredient in a bunch of things, and is easiest to get online, though sometimes baking goods stores or health food stores will carry it. I got a big plastic jar of it that will make a bunch of stuff for under $20 from Am@%0n. I also add a bit of powdered lecithin which is supposed to help it dissolve.

So I use distillate and isolate, You can use CBD, CBG, CBN, D8, D9, D10, HHC, THC-O, etc, etc. You just need to know your percents so you can figure your mg for dosing. you could also use rosin or other wax type concentrates but most would need to be decarbed first and then you’d have to do more math to determine your final strength so we’ll just discuss with activated product. I also use coconut oil, but you can, AFAIK, use most oils. So here is my recipe

I started with 3 grams of 80% purity cannabinoid distillate or isolate for a total of 2400 mg, and slowly melted that on a coffee mug warmer (any gentle heat will do the trick) with appx 15-20 grams of coconut oil. Make sure the oil and the distillate are fully melted and fully homogenized.

Then in a big stainless steel bowl I put about 2/3 cup of this maltodextrin powder and about a tablespoon of lecithin and pour the oil in to this and with a whisk I whisk it all up. You have to really mix and mix it, it should absorb and still be a powder—if it looks wet and clumpy add more maltodextrin powder—I add a couple of tablespoons at a time until all the oil is absorbed and it is light colored and pretty fluffy. To ensure that I have a very uniform final product I really mix it well and run it through a screen once or twice and just whisk and stir it a lot. So now you have to weigh your final product to determine how much of it to use for dosing. When I made this batch my final product weighed 120 grams. I figure out how much of the powder will give me 100 mg of cannabinoid so I take two zeros off of the mg (so 24) and divide my weight in to that so: 120 grams of produce divided by 24 mean that 5 grams of powder is equal to 100 mg. From there it is easy to figure out that 1 gram is 20 mg. If you like to take smaller doses just start with less distillate or add more oil and maltodextrin to dilute it further, but the math is the same.

Here is a couple links to me making small (2000 mg total) batch of CBD and a larger (5000ish mg) batch of HHC powder.

https://youtu.be/J1Xzi-JX2_Y https://youtu.be/1U87Pi-EGWg

TLDR: use maltodextrin & lecithin to make cannabis oil water soluble and much faster acting.