Is curing completely necessary?

[Doucheatron]

Let me preface this by saying that I am a non-smoker. Of any sort, due to allergies (dust, pollen, smoke) which give me the lungs of a baby. So, I make food and green dragon.

I'm just about out, and a guy I used to work with just harvested his stuff and it smells awesome. However, it hasn't yet been dried or cured, and I'm wondering if it will suit my purposes without this?

Does anyone know if relatively fresh, wet buds can be used to make cannabutter and/or an alcohol-based tincture? Or is drying and curing critical to potency and not just to smokeability?

[Weed420]

If you're a nonsmoker the smoke is going to be very harsh without curing.
You can use green weed for edibles. I would put it in the oven at the lowest heat setting it has and let it dry out for about 30 to 45 minutes. That will make it easier to put through a coffee grinder to powder it.

[diggler35007]

caution. when buying weed that has not been dried ! it weighs less when dried.

[anthonytaurus]

One of the purposes in drying is so the chlorophyl breaks down and doesn't impart it's taste to whatever you're smoking, cooking in this case. So the dry is necessary. But, you asked about the cure. No, the cure is not necessary if you're cooking or making drinks with it. Dry bud is good to go.

From the responses so far, it seems necessary to say that you can smoke it after it dries without a cure. The cure brings back the flavor and scent of the marijuana and helps to redistribute the remaining moisture throughout the bud.

[Firestone]

I have literally smoked bud and leaf plucked from the plant and stuck in a bowl. It does the job,so no it doesn't have to be cured or even dry to get you high.

If you're an outdoor grower and want a near pure THC high,pluck a bud/branch shoot in the mid afternoon on a hot day in the summer and smoke it raw. It's not a long high,2 hours or so at best,but damn it's trippy.