How to Make Stronger Cannabis Tincture: 3 Steps

Want to know how to make stronger cannabis tincture? Fordee’s method is a double infusion cannabis tincture — take your already-made Green Dragon tincture, add fresh decarbed cannabis (or hash), and run it through the Magical Butter Machine a second time. He went from 9.5 mg/mL to 14.4 mg/mL — a 51% cannabis tincture potency increase in one extra 4-hour session.

How to Make Stronger Cannabis Tincture: The Double Infusion Method

The concept behind a double infusion cannabis tincture is simple: alcohol can hold more cannabinoids than one infusion cycle typically extracts. By running a second infusion with fresh cannabis material — in this case, 11–12g of decarbed hash at ~40% THC — you push the alcohol closer to its saturation point, significantly boosting the final concentration.

3 Steps to Reinfuse Green Dragon Tincture

Here’s exactly how Fordee did the reinfuse green dragon tincture process to achieve the tincture mg per ml increase:

• Step 1: Add your existing tincture to the Magical Butter Machine. Pour in ~500ml of already-infused 190-proof (95%) alcohol tincture — the starting point was 9.5 mg/mL from the first infusion. You can see it’s that deep green color — the dragon is out.
• Step 2: Add fresh decarbed cannabis material. Fordee used 11–12g of decarbed hash (~40% THC). You can also use decarbed flower or concentrate — whatever you have. The key is it must be decarboxylated first. Set the machine to 160°F on the alcohol setting (4 hours).
• Step 3: Strain and test. After 4 hours, strain the tincture (a filter and syringe work well for TCheck testing). Use a potency tester — Fordee’s TCheck 2 read 14.4 mg/mL. That’s a 51% increase over the starting 9.5 mg/mL, without having to dilute the tincture down to stay below 15 mg/mL.