How to Make Weed Tea at Home (and THC Hot Cocoa)

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Dose It by the Label: Grams × THC% × 10

Every New Jersey flower label lists THC as a percentage. Multiply the grams you use by that percentage and by 10, and you have the most THC your pot can hold, in milligrams. Divide by the number of cups. Use the THC line, not TAC (our label guide explains the difference).

A useful reference point: New Jersey caps a single serving of a packaged cannabis product at 10 mg of THC, and a whole ingestible package at 100 mg (CRC labeling guide). The worked example in this guide lands at up to 10 mg a cup. If you are new, drink half a cup first.

Read across: 0.2 g of 20% flower is up to 40 mg in the pot. Pour 4 cups and each holds up to 10 mg; pour 8 and each holds up to 5 mg. A jeweler's scale that reads to 0.01 g makes small amounts like this practical.

Recipe 1: Weed Tea with Flower (4 Cups, About 1 Hour)

Want a batch you can use all week? Cannabutter stirred into tea or cocoa works the same way, as long as you know its strength; the cannabutter guide shows the math.

Recipe 2: The 2-Minute Tincture Tea

No oven, no straining. A tincture is already a measured liquid, so the dose is whatever you put in the cup.

1. Brew a cup of tea the way you normally would.
2. Read the tincture label: total THC in the bottle and the bottle size in mL. Divide to get mg per mL. A bottle labeled 300 mg THC in 30 mL holds 10 mg per mL.
3. Measure your dose with the dropper's markings or an oral syringe (0.5 mL of that example is 5 mg) and stir it into the tea.

Tincture stock changes, so check the live menu or call (862) 415-1353 before you come in. Our tinctures guide explains how to read a tincture label.

Recipe 3: THC Hot Cocoa (2 Mugs)

Milk already brings the fat, which makes cocoa a natural fit for cannabis. Do the dose math for the whole pot, then divide by 2.

1. Pick one THC source and do the math first: decarbed flower (use the calculator above), a measured tincture dose, or a measured amount of cannabutter.
2. For flower: warm 2 cups of whole milk with the decarbed ground flower on low for about 10 minutes, stirring, without letting it boil. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer.
3. Whisk in 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar and a pinch of salt until smooth.
4. For a tincture instead: make the cocoa without cannabis, pour it into mugs, then stir the measured dose into each mug.
5. Divide evenly into 2 mugs and label any leftovers.

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New Jersey Rules for Weed Tea

From the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission, checked October 19, 2026; the links are in the Sources section.

• You must be 21 or older. New Jersey residents and visitors can buy at licensed dispensaries (Cannabis Regulatory Commission).
• No home growing. The CRC says current New Jersey law does not allow growing cannabis outside a licensed cultivation business, so the flower for your tea has to come from a licensed store.
• Per transaction: up to 1 ounce of flower, or 1,000 mg of ingestible products, or a combination. Adults may possess up to 6 ounces.
• Use it on private property. Property owners, including landlords, can limit or ban use.
• Do not drive after drinking it. Impaired-driving laws apply to cannabis, and tea can take two hours or more to show its full effect.
• From November 14, 2026, hemp drinks with more than 0.4 mg of THC per container count as cannabis and may be sold only by licensed Class 5 cannabis retailers.

More on the home-grow question in our New Jersey home grow guide.

Where to Get What You Need in West Orange

Since home growing is not allowed in New Jersey, every cup starts at a licensed store. The Library is at 5 Washington Street, West Orange, NJ 07052. Order on the live menu and pick up in store or at the curb.

This page names no products or prices: the live menu is the source of truth for what is in stock. Pickup details are on the curbside pickup page, and more kitchen ideas are in cooking with cannabis.

Weed Tea FAQ

Sources

• Tea Prepared from Dried Cannabis: What Do We Drink? J Agric Food Chem, 2024 (PubMed Central PMC11440496): delta-9-THC transfer into water-only tea 0.4–1.9%; 53–64% when cream was added during steeping; 1 g of cannabis boiled 10 minutes in 250 mL water; 20 g of 10% fat cream
• Wang et al., Decarboxylation Study of Acidic Cannabinoids, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 2016 (PMC5549281): below 100°C THCA did not fully convert within 60 minutes; THCA approached zero in 30 minutes at 110°C (230°F)
• NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission, Packaging and Labeling Guide (2024): single serving 10 mg THC or less; ingestible package 100 mg or less; required ingestible warning: “The intoxicating effects of this product may be delayed by two or more hours.”
• NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission, General FAQ: home growing is not allowed under current law; adults may use cannabis on private property, which owners can limit
• NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission, Recreational Use: 21+, residents or visitors, licensed dispensaries; 1 oz or 1,000 mg of ingestibles per transaction; 6 oz possession; impaired-driving laws apply
• NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission, Intoxicating Hemp FAQ: from November 14, 2026, hemp beverages over 0.4 mg total THC per container are cannabis and can only be sold by licensed Class 5 Cannabis Retailers

Facts checked October 19, 2026. This guide is general information for adults 21 and older, not medical advice. The live menu is the source of truth for stock and prices.