Actually NebulaHaze has an article written on this in which she points out the very things you'll find if you try to use them to dry your bud... they won't work the way you hope and it will expire the Boveda packets very quickly as well... You need to dry the bud, cure the bud and then afterwards after its cured then add the Boveda for long term storage... why? Simply put because if you do it to dry the bud, the bud will run into humidity issues because the Boveda doesn't pull the humidity out fast enough from the buds. During the cure you need the cannabis to lose water for some acid to change into another chemical compound by losing the water molecule which is when bud go from being okay, to the points it gets amazing... if you use the Boveda during this time it will cause the bud to slow this process of change way down to a crawl. I did an experiment where I cured the bud all from one plant differently and people swore it was all different strains from different plants until faced with the facts I cured it all differently accordingly to what I learned from Nebula Haze's articles on the main GWE site. Look under Drying & Curing over there... its the best information I've ever found anywhere on this subject and try it for yourself she really knows her stuff.