Beyond Buds: Marijuana Extracts Hash, Vaping, Dabbing, Edibles and Medicines

by Ed Rosenthal, David Downs (Primary Contributor)

Beyond Buds is a handbook to the future of marijuana. Prohibition’s end has led to a technological revolution that’s generated powerful medicines and products containing almost zero carcinogens and little smoke. Marijuana icon Ed Rosenthal and leading cannabis reporter David Downs guide readers through the best new consumer products, and demonstrate how to make and use the safest, cleanest extracts. Beyond Buds details how award-winning artisans make hash and concentrates, and includes modern techniques utilizing dry ice and CO2. The book is a primer on making kief, water hash, tinctures, topicals, edibles, and other extracts from cannabis leaves, trim, and bud bits, and it goes on to explore and simplify the more exotic and trendy marijuana-infused products, such as butane hash oil (BHO), shatter, wax, and budder. More complex than lighting a joint, these innovative products call for new accessories — special pipes, dabbing tools, and vaporizers — all of which are reviewed and pictured in the book. Beyond Buds expands on Rosenthal’s previous book Ask Marijuana Trash to Stash. Completely updated with full-color photographs that are both “how-to” guides and eye candy, this book enables not only the health-conscious toker but also the bottom line–driven cultivator.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2014

Reviews

[Ed Zirkwitz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good information do with the entire cannabis plant.
Pretty much everything you need to know about preparing, processing and using.
the plants for personal use products: kief, vape pens, shatter, whatter, dabbing, BHO, tinctures.
Good explanations of cannabinoids and terpenes.
The book does not look at the growing or horticulture side of things.
Some basics are provided regarding what different cannabinoids will do
for various health concerns such as cancer but it does not provide comprehensive information
for the reader who wants to deal with medical and health concerns.

[Dmitrii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good reading to start. That's 5/5, in that case. The book provides an introduction to almost every aspect of marijuana extracts, including some science-backed information. However, if decided to proceed, this book is only a starter (but the hell of a good one!), and the one needs to dig deeper, especially given that this whole industry is on its peak, with new scientific data and methods and tools appearing.

[Spencer Sosebee]

Good books but some of what he says I believe to be incorrect statements by quoting Robert Clark whom is claimed to invent Ice Wax when in truth it was Reinhard Delp(think I spelt his first name right) but does have great information other than that

[Kirill Igumenshchev · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent book to start things off. There are a bunch of ads and you can skip them. Gives a good overview. You can find most of this info in blog posts but obviously it's not organized as well. Beyond this book, I just read science papers, patents, blogs, YouTube.

[Justine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely informative!

[Debra Lowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so this is a subject I know nothing about, seriously. I can't tell you if the information is accurate, or if the methods and suggestions work. I just can't. Readers will need someone with more expertise than I if you are looking for an expansion on the knowledge you already have. I can tell you though, that Rosenthal made it easy to read; there was a lot of information in the book complete with illustrations and pictures so that I really felt like I took in a lot of information about a subject that was new to me; and, the book was interesting.

[Jessica]

*I received a free digital copy of this book from Edelweiss.

[Glenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

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