How To Make a Cannabis Pill

We're all used to going to the drugstore and picking up a jar of pills when we need medications. Those of us who use cannabis to treat our ailments don't have that luxury.

But making your own pills isn't hard at all!

By making your own you can be assured of freshness and quality ingredients. You can also add other herbs to the mixture to create the medicine that works best for you such as Valerian root to help you sleep, ginger to settle your stomach etc.

OK! Let's get rolling!

Powdered Cannabis Pills

Make sure you heat your cannabis at 300 degrees F for 15 minutes to decarboxylate the THC before grinding. It will also make the herb more brittle and it will powder more easily.

Weigh the cannabis after drying in the oven. After you make your pills simply divide the weight by the number of pills to establish the dosage.

I've found that the easiest way to powder herbs is in a blender or coffee grinder.

Put your herbs in the grinder and pulse until they are reduced to a fine powder.
Sift this powder through a fine metal strainer to remove small stems and other coarse particles.

When you have a fine even texture put them in a bowl (preferably glass or stainless steel) and add a small quantity of honey or food grade glycerin.

Easy does it when adding the liquid, it will take less than what you would think.

Add a little at a time until you have a slightly sticky mass that will hold it's shape when you roll it in your hands.

Knead and roll the mixture in your hands until it forms a cohesive mass. Then roll it into a snake just like you used to do in kindergarten.
Be careful to roll this to a uniform thickness, generally you will want the finished pill to be about the size of a pea.

Lay the snake next to a ruler and cut it into pieces as long as they are thick.

Roll the pieces into balls and then dust them with slippery elm powder.

Put them on a cookie sheet and let them dry. If you have a food dehydrator you can put them in that.
Or, if the weather is humid put them in the oven on low heat for a few minutes.

Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator. These can be swallowed or chewed.

Herbal Flea Powder

I don't know about you, but I hate the idea of sprayin'  my hound with pesticides when he gets fleas hitchin' a ride on him.
Fortunately  I don't have to.

The best thing to do is try to prevent the little critters from latching on to him in the first place.

Put some Cedar shavings or Black Walnut leaves in their bedding and it will repel the fleas.

If you feed your pet Brewers yeast and garlic all year round the fleas won't like the taste of his blood and they'll move on to greener pastures.

Feed about a teaspoon to small dogs and a tablespoon to large dogs.

Garlic will do the same thing but don't give garlic to your cat.
Garlic can be toxic to those little fellas but the yeast will help them out.

Here's a recipe for an herbal flea powder.

Herbal Flea Powder

1/4 C.     Eucalyptus
1/4 C.     Fennel
1/4 C.     Rosemary
1/4 C.     Wormwood
1/4 C.     Pennyroyal
1/4 C.     Lemonverbena
1/4 C.     Sassafras root bark
1 Tblsp.  Garlic Powder
1 Tblsp.  Onion Powder
Grind the herbs to a fine powder.
Add Garlic and Onion powders.
Mix well and store in an airtight container.

Comb into your pet's coat in the opposite direction from which it grows.
Sprinkle the flea powder into the base of the fur until you have covered your pet's entire body.
Use as necessary. 
Discontinue use if your pet develops a rash or allergic reaction to any of the herbs it contains.