For all you experienced growers and smokers out there, I was wondereing if you could help with a myth I have heard since the 70's.

Back in the day, everyone assumed that the leaves were just as good if not slightly less so, to smoke. Popular culture also "thinks" that pot is just dried leaves. Now I know that the most THC comes from the well ripened female buds but...... do the leaves, male or female, actually produce any THC.

If so, how much?

Links to articles and such are also welcomed along with your informed opinons. Thanks!

the leaves closest to the bubs are covered in thc I clip them off some times and somke'em you get a nice buzz.you can see the thc on them!

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All the leaves and steams have some amount of THC in them but the amount is small compared to the other compounds in the leaves. The beast you can hope from smoking raw leaves is a short lived buzz followed by a lasting headache. Vaporizing would be better idea if you have to, but beast of all would be to do some kind of extraction method.

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Thanks, I was thinking along those same lines, using the vaporizor and all for extraction. I have also now read that the Male (or Femal for that matter)plant does not manufacuter significant amounts of THC until it is toward the end of sexual maturity (flowering).

Yes, the leaves can be covered in trichomes, and although they have less resin than the flower, they can be very potent, especially when concentrated. I use almost all of the leaf that I produce to make cannabutter. If you eat a couple of my cookies, you could find yourself sitting on a curb watching traffic while drool drips off your chin.

HTH

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Care to share your recipe for cookies? Also, what is the process for making cannabutter?

go look in grofaq

Ive smoked leaves off of my plant when noone had any weed... gives you a buzz (if your tolerence isn't too high), and it didn't give me a headache.

Of course it's not my preference.

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If get a pretty good buzz off the trim that is poking out of the buds. Not the full leaves but the trim. It rolls up nicely mixed with a little bud. Makes a leisurely smoke with a cup of Joe on a cool fall evening. Just smoke like a cigarette. It doesn't give me a headache.

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Well, this is the Harvesting forum, there's another forum for that, Cooking with Cannabis. Check it out, everything you want to know is there.

HTH

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