My friend Ethan is the “cook,” “baker,” and “candy maker” at a medical marijuana facility in Albuquerque. In other words, he makes the edibles. Ethan commented, “Right now I make about 15 different sweet products not including the several products in the developing stage. I also have an extensive list of savory products to add to our menu as well as about another dozen sweet items coming up which we are all excited about.”
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- Sandia Botanicals is a full-service medical marijuana facility, meaning that it grows the plants, processes them and runs a dispensary that both wholesales and retails the finished products.
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- Here are young plants growing under lights. They currently are growing around 2,500 plants.
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- These are flowering plants. The color is off because a different spectrum is used for them, which our eyes can’t detect, but the camera can.
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- After harvesting and drying, the tops, inaccurately called “buds,” are hand-trimmed by live human beings. Machine-trimming damages the tops too much.The trim gets extracted into distillate (and BHO and RAW oil).
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- The tops are strained into a coarse powder, again by hand.
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- This automatic rolling machine makes perfect joints called “pre-rolls.”
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- This is the laboratory that extracts the THC and CBD from the marijuana.
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- Here are two of the finished edibles, hard candy on the left and toffee on the right.
