Want to know how to make CBD gummies at home? You’ve come to the right place.
These chewy candies are a quick, easy, and delicious way to get the medicine you need without many of the hassles of other consumption methods.
In this article, the all-things-cannabis experts at Honest Marijuana give you the rundown on how to make CBD gummies in your very own kitchen.
First, though, we’ll start by discussing the components of these tasty treats: CBD and gummies.
What Is CBD?
CBD (short for cannabidiol) is one of a group of chemical compounds called cannabinoids.
THC (short for tetrahydrocannabinol) is probably the best-known cannabinoid, but CBD is rapidly growing in popularity and notoriety.
Other cannabinoids include:
And that’s just for starters. Scientists have isolated 113 different cannabinoids so far. Who knew the cannabis plant held such a plethora of chemicals, right? But back to the topic at hand.
Once it enters your bloodstream, CBD interacts with neurons (or receptors) in your brain — and in your body itself — to produce a variety of beneficial effects that make it very useful in treating some very difficult medical issues.
That’s why CBD has become the go-to ingredient in everything from creams and patches, tinctures and oils, coffee and honey, and even water.
It’s also why you’ll find it in one of our favorite treats: gummies.
What Are Gummies?
The first gummy candies — which, incidentally, were shaped like bears — were invented in Germany in the late 1920s. Back then, they were basically just sugar and fruit flavoring.
In the 1990s, though, two natural-food advocates thought to include healthy vitamins in their gummies as a way to get kids to take a daily multi.
That was the inspiration for adding all kinds of extra ingredients into the mix.
Now, you can get gummies in a wide variety of flavors, shapes, and sizes and with a wide variety of additives…including, of course, CBD gummies.
What Are CBD Gummies?
As the name suggests, CBD gummies are chewy, often fruit-flavored candies that contain a small dose of the cannabinoid CBD.
Creative manufacturers form their CBD gummies into bears, fish, fruit shapes, and anything else that comes to mind.
But, honestly, CBD gummies can just be a small square or sphere (or any other simple shape, for that matter) if you don’t have access to fancy molds.
As long as they contain the right amount of CBD — and taste good going down — most people don’t care what the gummies are shaped like.
That brings us to the main topic of this article: how to make CBD gummies at home.
How To Make CBD Gummies At Home
Learning how to make CBD gummies with CBD oil is one of the easiest ways to get the medicine you need in a chewy candy coating.
Here’s what you’ll need.
Ingredients And Supplies
- 1 cup of fresh, 100% fruit juice (we recommend pomegranate juice)
- 2 tablespoons of unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 milliliters (3,000 milligrams) of CBD oil/tincture
- Kitchen utensils
- Small pitcher or large glass measuring cup
- Candy molds (any shape will do)
- Baking sheet
- Room in the freezer or refrigerator
Instructions
- Heat the fruit juice in a medium saucepan over medium heat until the liquid reaches a gentle simmer
- Turn off the heat
- Whisk in the honey and gelatin until all the ingredients are combined
- Transfer the mixture to a small pitcher or large glass measuring cup
- Stir in the CBD oil
- Pour liquid into candy molds
- Set the molds on the baking sheet for support and place them in the freezer or refrigerator
- Wait at least 30 minutes before attempting to remove the gummies from the molds
- Enjoy!
Will CBD Gummies Get You High?
When it comes to CBD gummies — or any CBD product, for that matter — this is what everyone wants to know. The simple answer is no, CBD gummies won’t get you high.
They won’t get you high because they don’t contain the cannabinoid THC — the chemical compound that causes the psychedelic effects that make marijuana so famous (or infamous, depending on how you look at it).
CBD gummies are typically made from high-CBD, low-THC strains, so there’s no reason to worry that you’ll suddenly start feeling words or laughing at Adam Sandler movies.
If you do, there was more than CBD in those gummies you popped.
Side Effects Of CBD Gummies
1) Dry Mouth
One of the most common side effects of the CBD in CBD gummies is dry mouth.
But in a world full of medications with side effects that are worse than the original problem, a bit of dry mouth doesn’t seem all that bad, does it?
2) Possible Interference With Other Medications
CBD interferes with your liver’s ability to process other drugs.
So if you take a heart medication and add CBD to control your blood sugar, the CBD could negate the benefits of the heart medicine and cause more harm than good.
Be sure to talk to a physician about whether adding a CBD gummy to your diet is right for your condition.
3) Biphasic Characteristics
Biphasic means that at low levels CBD will provide certain effects, while at high levels it will provide different effects.
If this seems foreign to you, think about alcohol which is also biphasic. At low levels, it’s a stimulant, while, at high levels, it’s a depressant.
CBD doesn’t act exactly the same as alcohol — stimulant on one end, depressant on the other — but the effects will change as the dosage level increases.
Most people don’t have to worry about the biphasic characteristics of the CBD in their gummies because they won’t take enough of the fruity treats at any one time to reach the level where the effects change.
That said, it’s still good to know exactly what CBD can do and that those effects exist so you can get the experience you’re looking for from your CBD gummies.
How To Make CBD Gummies: The Right Strain
A big part of learning how to make CBD gummies is picking the right strain to add to the mix.
It’s pretty much a given that you’re going to use a high-CBD/low-THC strain to make your chewy goodies — otherwise, they’d be THC gummies, which is a completely different animal.
Even if you’ve never tried CBD products before, you know you’re going to feel a bit different after popping your first gummy — that’s the whole point, after all.
But knowing how different you’re going to feel is an important part of having a good experience. And the only way to predict the results is to get familiar with the strains available to you.
That’s why it’s so important to try a variety of strains, including:
It’s even beneficial to learn about cannabis ruderalis and hemp so you can make an informed decision about what you want to put in your recipe when learning how to make CBD gummies.
While you’re doing your research and learning everything you can about the wide world of weed, here are some suggestions for high-CBD strains to get you started.
- Charlotte’s Web
- Ringo’s Gift
- Harlequin
- Cannatonic
- Sour Tsunami
- Harle-Tsu
- Canna-Tsu
- ACDC
- Warlock
- Zen
- Pennywise
Once you understand the effects of a certain strain, you’ll be better able to make a better decision about whether or not you want to include it in your CBD gummy recipe.
How To Make CBD Gummies: Quality And Purity
As we touched on in the previous section, one of the many nice things about learning how to make CBD gummies at home is that you can use any strain you like.
You can use your favorite strain. You can vary the strain from one batch to the next. You can experiment with new strains. You can even use a landrace strain if the inspiration hits you.
It doesn’t really matter. What does matter is the quality and the purity of the strain you choose. Those are key.
For quality, we always recommend headies and beasters over mids and regs.
And for purity, we always, always, always recommend an all-natural, organic strain like those we grow at our Rocky Mountain-based grow facility.
There, we employ world-class organic growing methodologies to provide you — and all cannabis connoisseurs — the purest marijuana experience on the planet.
We grow our plants the way Mother Nature intended: in organic soil without chemicals or pesticides. We even hand-trim our plants so that they’re organic from the ground up.
So don’t settle for an inferior strain or an inferior final product when learning how to make CBD gummies.
Get the best buds on the planet — Honest Marijuana buds — and experience cannabis and candy the way they were meant to be.
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