FYI: happened like 2 months ago but just remembered this and regretted not posting it sooner.

So I like weed but have always preferred edibles to smoking. I usually get them from a friend of mine, but he moved out of the city so anytime I wanted some I had to wait for us to have a get together which can be infrequent.

At the time I was still living with my mum so I never wanted to try making any myself at home. Figured I’d be in university in a few months and could just wait till then. That was until I found out my mum was gonna be away for work for a week. I decided to give it a try since I’d have plenty of time to get rid of the smell before she got back.

So when you’re making edibles, the first thing MOST people do is decarb. This is basically you “activating” the THC so that when you infuse it into your oil/butter it’ll be stronger. You can do this in an oven. Different people recommended different amounts of time in the tutorials I’d been watching, but none were giving specific temperatures to decarb at.

I decided to just Google it and type Reddit at the end of the question, cause I trust you idiots for some reason. Turns out I was the dumb one cause I forgot that most people on this site are American, so I put my weed in the oven at around 250 Celsius instead of Fahrenheit for much longer than needed at that temp. £30 down the drain. I even still tried infusing the burnt cinders into the butter but then gave up cause I realised that was stupid.

Don’t do drugs kids.

TL;DR I burnt my weed on my first attempt at making edibles because I didn’t consider whether a redditors instructions were in Celsius or not.