Why Does Snoop Dogg Microwave His Blunt?

Did you know that Snoop Dogg puts his blunt in the microwave for 11 seconds before he lights up? In a 2010 interview with musician and media personality Nardwuar in Vancouver, Snoop can be seen rolling a blunt and popping it into the microwave for a few seconds. According to him, the microwave helps to “trap all the ingredients.”

If you smoke weed, you may be wondering if there’s any real benefit to microwaving a blunt or if it’s just a meaningless ritual that’s part of Snoop’s smoking routine.

It turns out Snoop may be on to something there.

If you’re familiar with edibles, then you’re not new to the process of decarboxylation, and it involves heating weed to activate the THC. But for those who are hearing this term for the first time and who may be a bit skeptical about all this, let’s get technical and break down what this means.

Decarboxylation is a chemical reaction that causes a carboxylic acid to release carbon dioxide. Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, THCa, is a carboxylic acid. During the decarboxylation process, THCa gives off one carbon atom and two hydrogen atoms (which forms carbon dioxide CO2). The decarboxylation process also converts cannabolic acid (CBDa) into CBD.

How Does A Microwave Fit Into All This?

Decarboxylation is usually done with an oven and not a microwave. When decarboxylating weed for edibles, the rule of thumb is to bake the weed at about 120º C for 30 to 45 minutes. But Snoop is using a microwave, and he is only baking his blunt for 11 seconds.

So, when he lights his blunt, he will already have some readily available psychoactive THC apart from the THCa that is being converted to THC when he takes a puff. This ultimately translates to a more intense high.

It’s not just the THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids affected when you put a blunt in the oven. The terpenes in the weed are also affected. Terpenes contribute to giving marijuana strains their unique flavor, among other things. Terpenes can evaporate when exposed to high temperatures for a long time.

Final Verdict

There are some benefits of microwaving your blunt for a few seconds before lighting up. This is not simply conjectured, and we’ve tested this out and know that it works.

Should you heat your blunt in a microwave before you light it? That’s entirely up to you. We don’t recommend that you follow anything blindly. If this sounds like something you’d like to do, go ahead and try it out, and if you like it, voila! You’ve found a new ritual to enrich your smoking experience

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