Eating Pot

Eating pot is such a fantastic way to get high. I don't know why but so many people tell me that it doesn't work on them. I've had friends who have smoked herb for at least ten years and have never had good edibles.

I think this happens for two reasons: the first, impatience, and the second, bad cooking.

This one time I went to a small gathering of friends and brought along some of my pot cookies. I offered them freely to anyone who was interested, but one friend kept asking for more. I told him to eat as many as he wanted, but to be warned: these fuckers would sneak up on him in about ninety minutes and eat his face off. He seemed reassured that this was what he was after and ate a few more cookies. Sure enough, a couple hours later he was nowhere to be found. After some searching, he was found in an odd part of the house staring at a empty spot on the wall. His deeply bloodshot and glazed eyes looked up at me, and he croaked, "I think I ate too many."

Impatience is a trait that does not mix well with orally-active psychedelics. For something like cannabis, which is typically baked into desserts, your body has to process the food before the THC will trickle into your system. It's not like smoking pot, where you can feel the effects in minutes. If you eat ganja-laced foods and you aren't feeling anything, think back to how much food you've had in the past three hours. How active have you been? A lot of food and little activity will seriously delay the onset of pot food. Before taking more, consider waiting a bit. A strong dose of oral THC can seriously ring your bell and leave you intoxicated for an entire day. The oral route makes it much easier to reach the psychedelic dose of THC, which can be every bit as potent as any other psychedelic. So if you don't feel like tripping on acid at the party tonight, don't eat more cannabis cookies until you feel the effects of the first one.

Bad cooking is pretty obvious. Some ganj-foods just aren't made properly. There are many excellent tutorials on the internet for making proper ganj-food, so do your research and make it right!

Here are some tips:

• Cannibutter is an excellent, general-purpose ingredient to many types of intoxicating meals. For whatever reason, butter seems to work better than vegetable oil, so try extracting your THC into butter instead of margerine.
  
• If you are using packaged brownie mixes, you probably extracted THC into vegetable oil. Unfortunately, brownie mixes don't call for enough vegetable oil to make very potent brownies. Luckily, you can safely increase the oil by 150% without making the brownies overly weird. Also, seriously consider making a oil-based chocolate sauce for pouring over the brownies. This will definitely increase their potency.
• Use more, less-potent herb over less, more-potent herb. See if you can get bud clippings from a grower, and failing that, see if you can get leaf. Cooking a bunch of cheap leaf into butter can set you up with potent cannibutter for a very long time. I think many people get discouraged after cooking up an expensive eighth of premium marijuana and not feeling much. This process requires volume, but fortunately the volume doesn't need to be made up of very strong buds.
• Cook some non-ganj desserts at the same time as your ganj desserts. This will give you some tasty treats for when the munchies strike that won't knock you out for several days.