Naturally Infused Canna-Honey.

Honey Bees, not to be confused with hornets, play a vital role in our world. The socialist system in which they hold within their hive is not worth over looking either. The hive is an all for one and one for all kind of hive.
First we should address the roles within the bee monarchy so that we may have a better understanding of the vocabulary that will be used in this article.

The Queen Bee

The green Dot in the middle is directly over top of the Queen Bee and all her glory.

Hard to find but easy to spot. She is the largest in the hive. Usually on the comb laying larva.

Worker Bees

These are the bees in the colony that get shit done. Think of them like the logistics, handymen, and designers of the hive. They have no stingers and sometimes can be found in swarms on tree limbs if their hive has been destroyed.

Drone Bees

Notice the stinger at the bottom of the bee.

If you are what you eat, I wonder if bee sweat tastes like nectar?

These are the ones we love to hate. They are the infantry of the hive. They protect and collect. Best to just stay out of there flight path unless you have the best bee cavilar known to man. (Bee suit)

Unlike humans who can survive on there own, though not preferred, bees cannot survive without their colony. The Queen does not hunt, nor do the workers. The workers don't lay eggs and the drones don't construct the hive or transport the nectar within their residence.

Hive Beatles

Dorsal view of an adult male small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray. Photograph by Lyle J. Buss, University of Florida.

These son's of Bee's, not literally, are the tornado to a wedding. They can destroy a hive from the inside out and eat all the honey the bee's are storing for the winter and feeding to the larva. The bees will flee before they will defend their home. (They are libral that way.)

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I was asked by both @riverflow and @buckaroo that I write a post about the very title when I mentioned a future goal I wanted to achieve. My initial post was an entry into a contest that @naturalmedicine made available to all steemians.

https://steemit.com/naturalmedicine/@cannabisguy420/all-natural-for-the-us-military-061f22ca8f6e6

So here is my attempt in explaining am untapped market of the Cannabis business and what beneficial advantages it has to mankind.

Naturally Infused Cannabis Honey

Now I know that you are most likely wondering what the hell I'm talking about. Honey after all is water soluble which means I'm not scientific enough to seperate the honey from the water and have the Thc-a hold to the honey itself and not just float in the water. Usually with oils you can seperate by cooling and allowing the process to occurred natrually.

Well, I gotta say that this is not a post for the people looking to find some new way to get high I assure you. The process is so simple that all you do is provide the resources for the bees to thrive and let them work it out amongst themselves. They are not going to listen to any of your input anyways. They just don't care. And chances are that their bee hive making abilities are better than all of us combined.

So how does this process happen?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.firstwefeast.com/eat/2016/03/weed-honey

If you follow this link you will see the head line, "This man trains honey bees." It's a lie beyond lies or it's just a sales pitch to get a reader.

I must admit that I have many skills and none of them are training bees to do anything. Millions of years of perfection can't be overwritten by a simple verbal command.

So let's explain why he is wrong and right shall we. Like i said, you can't train bees. Bees are as instinctual as the action of breathing. Drones naturally leave the hive to feast off of whatever vegetation is available within 2 miles; Or 3 kilometers for the cooler folkes out there.

So let's fill that vegetation with straight cannabis and what happens. The bees only have the ability to get their sugars, (THC & CBD's), from cannabis plants. Yeah us.

Now as far as my research has gone, which really hasn't been much because I'm more in this for CBD's than anything; I have not found any way of decarboxylating the Thc to Thc-a. I'm sure where there is a will there is a way, but CBD's are available without decarboxylation.

Thc decarboxylates at about 200°F and is a required process to get that high we all love and crave. Even when you smoke dried flower you decarboxylate the thc when you put the flame to the bud and inhale the smoke directly.

Well how does the CBD and Thc actually get into the honey?

Well let's go over the collection process first. Drones fly out from the hive and like said before collect nectar from the surrounding vegetation. That nectar is drawn up through their proboscis, which is like a cool mega slurpee straw from 7-11, except it's their tounge. They pull the nectar or resin into what is a second stomach reffered to as a honey sac.

The drone then transports the nectar to the hive and a worker bee takes his proboscis and sucks the nectar out of the other bees honey sac. (There really wasn't an accurate way to word that where it does not sound sexual. The next part doesn't sound any better.)

Once the worker bee has sucked all the nectar from the drones honey sac, the worker bees exchange the load between other worker bees until all the water has been drawn out and all that remains is honey. (Told ya so.)

This is how all honey is processed naturally. The only difference are the resources in which the nectar is derived from. Certain flowers have medicinal properties which can be found online and cannabis is the same, only one million times better.

One of the coolest things is that the resin within the cannabis plant is flowing with cbd's. Many of these CBD's are proving to not only be a great alternative medicine, it's becoming so that it should be the first medicine anyone turns too and make the expensive stuff secondary.

If your still lost why the CBD's are in the honey, CBD's can be thought of as mineral deposits within the nectar. Well when the drone initially picks up the nectar he picks up all of the CBD's that come with it as well as all the surrounding water. The only thing that changes in that nectar is the amount of water that remains from there. Each time it has that much less water until all the water has been absorbed out and all that remains is the CBD's and honey!

Why honey though. Honey is a super food. It is often used in facial scrubs salves and in skin moisturizing creams. It has no shelf life either. Honey found in King tuts tomb from over 2000 years ago was still edible straight from the jar.

Along with being a natural antibiotic, this super food can easily be mixed into any drink including straight water for that extra boost in the day. With Infused CBD's it's only that much better.

Any questions feel free to ask away, anyone with additional info I am always willing to learn more. Thanks for reading!