Let’s face it. Smoke from anything—a cigarette, a toasty campfire, the rusty tailpipe of the 36 Broadway bus—isn’t good for your lungs. That’s especially true now that they’re the primary target of a deadly virus.

You better just eat it instead.

There are a million cannabutter recipes online, many of them flawed and overcomplicated, resulting in green, swampy-tasting over- or underdosed butters, stripped of the full spectrum of the plant’s properties. When you’re getting started, it’s best to keep it simple.

Then you need to decarboxylate it, heating it gently in the oven—GENTLY—to activate the THC and CBD.

1 cup water

Cannabutter with RSO by Angelina Bastidas