Is Soaking Your Cannabis Strains in Water a Good Idea?

Whether you are growing cannabis at home or relying on your nearby dispensary for your weekly stock, finally getting your hands on your favorite strain would more or less feel like a key to your vantage point. You are likely to take care of those buds and would either put them in an airtight bag or a container with an airtight lid.


With the increasing popularity of marijuana, it's now easier than ever to apply for a medical cannabis card in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami or any city which lies in the state where medical cannabis is legal.


In case if you get curious like me after getting high and like to experiment or in case if you accidentally find your strain landing in a puddle of water somehow.


You would ask yourself, is it any good?


Well first things first, the answer is NO. Even if you dry it with one of the methods mentioned below or find another method to get it dry, you are likely to end up with a degraded quality bud with further loss in its terpenes content(responsible for the odor of your cannabis strain and are volatile in nature).

Through my experience I can tell, getting your marijuana wet isn't a good idea for obvious reasons. It's almost ruined for smoking purposes and getting it dry is probably going to be your first priority.
So what happens if you come across such a scenario?


Let us have a look at,

What Happens When Your Strain Gets Drenched in Water?

It's a Pain to Grind it

If you have smoked cannabis before you would have an idea that to smoke cannabis you need to grind your strain into small particles to either put it in a rolling paper or a pipe. When your bud is wet it is close to impossible to grind it as you would imagine, it would get stuck in your grinder and would even generate extra work of taking it out from the grinder's spokes.

It's Not Easy to Burn

If you try to light up some damp cannabis bud or even a soaked piece of paper the outcomes are not going to be very different. Even if you use a blowtorch lighter on your moist bud, after burning down the extra moisture will light up super smokey and would be terrible in taste.

Your Tasty Bud is Now Something Else

If in case you do get to light up your soaked bud, you will find that it tastes really bad . It doesn't taste the strain you expect it to be and this is not because of the loss of cannabinoid content in it but the excess of water vapours in your bud makes your cannabis taste terrible.

So as we are clear that getting cannabis wet is not going to turn up in your favour and rather would taste terrible, the question arises,

What All We Can Do if it Gets Wet?

The Rice Way

Using rice to dry cannabis is a traditional and reliable way to eliminate excess moisture in cannabis strains. It is tired and tested over the years and could also be a crack if you accidentally drop your phone in a puddle of water.


You can start by getting rice in a big vessel and put your cannabis bud in it. Through osmosis, rice has a tendency to soak moisture from a substance until the equilibrium is achieved in their concentration. Basically the water in your strain will get transferred to rice.


Although one drawback we have of this method is that it will leave your cannabis strain with a faint rice smell and would burn quicker, which in my opinion is a good trade than the moist terrible taste it had developed earlier, and was almost impossible to burn.


But what if you don't have rice at the place you are at?

Osmosis through paper

It's easier to get your hands on paper towels or a bundle of old newspapers home. The idea is to keep your soaked cannabis strains wrapped around the paper until it soaks the moisture out of it. Dry papers work in the same way as rice through osmosis, leaving the cannabis dry.


A good quality toilet paper or tissue paper could also work well in this case.


Though one problem we could face in this case is that the moist papers must be removed from around the strains after some water has been absorbed by the papers to avoid the development of any fungus.

To avoid this keeps the area dry and well ventilated or use a dehumidifier if you have one.