Drying and/or Curing:
What I do is, right after harvest, cut off the roots, trim the leaves off as much as possible, put the stalks in a brown paper grocery bag, and put the bag in a cleaned empty vegetable bin in the refrigerator, and stir the stalks around once per day for about ten days, and your crop will be completely dry. And, you will know that the crop is dry, when you can put a bud between your fingers and press with your thumb the middle stem will snap in two with little effort.
Also, to increase the potency, remove some buds after fifth day from refrigerator, and fill a coffee can with 50% bud and 50% Dry-Ice, poke about 10 holes or so in the coffee can's lid, and store in freezer until dry-ice has evaporated, about two days, return buds to a brown paper bag, and store in the refrigerator's empty vegetable bin until buds are completely dry.
* Vegetables can and will permeate the buds if vegetables are kept with/near/around buds [which no one wants].
* This method is suppose to increase the potency exponentionally. And, just by storing the buds in a freezer after the buds are dry, also will increase the buds potency.
Storage:
Cut buds from main stem, and put buds in masons' jars, and store in freezer
Refrigerators draw moisture from the air, causing anything inside one to dry out, pretty quickly.
Ever put an uncovered piece of meat in the fridge?
You get jerky in a few days.
Most, if not all refrigerators have a shallow pan underneath them to catch that extracted moisture