From oral tinctures to transdermal lotions to cocoa-butter suppositories, infusing cannabis medicine at home allows consumers to figure out their own perfect doses and avoid the high costs of constantly stocking up on pre-made products. Making usable DIY cannabis oil or salve takes some real scientific know-how. It's easy and expensive to mess it up. But if you can master it, you can make and store literally any marijuana product that's helpful for your ailments.

So how do we properly extract the medicine from the cannabis flower? How do we infuse that medicine into a medium that's safe to ingest? And how do we store our new homemade salves and oils so we can continue to find relief in place of pharmaceuticals for issues like pain, inflammation, skin problems, gastrointestinal troubles, and much more?

This week, host Brit Smith gets an At-Home Infusion 101 class from Shanel Lindsay, the CEO of Ardent (ardentcannabis.com) and Billow (whatisbillow.com); two biotech device companies that help consumers more easily and effectively extract and use cannabis medically at home. Shanel explains the essential steps to properly heating cannabis flower (decarboxylating) and getting the good stuff off the plant, how to infuse it into oils, milks, or alcohols, how to figure out your personal dosing, how to keep your homemade infusions fresh for longer, and how to do 'infusion boosting.'

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