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Most of cannabis’s plant matter is in lipid form, so the best way to create an infusion is with another oil-based material — butter, coconut oil, ghee (a clarified butter), or whatever. This combination results in bioavailability, or your body’s ability to take in the chemicals. Soaking the plant matter for an extended period imparts the valuable chemicals and aromas are into the carrier or base oil. Heat can also create this transfer as long as the heat isn’t so high that it compromises the plant’s integrity.

You can use CBD flower to supplement almost anything. It’s a great addition in butter for cookies, ghee for curries, oils for salad dressing, and so on. You do want to know the actual concentration of full-spectrum plant chemicals you’re infusing into your oil. All reputable providers — at the dispensary or online — will provide you with the certificate of analysis (COA), which outlines the concentration of cannabinoids and sometimes even terpenes in what you’re buying. The CBD concentration is written as a percentage; common numbers range from 5 percent to 25 percent, with 5 being low strength and 25 being the highest.

You can also figure out concentrations yourself, as I explain in the following section.