I just made edibles. AMA
 

As the title suggests, I just finished making edibles. I've never had one, I've never made them before, and I have no idea what to expect, other than likely passing TF out lol. I've never been much into bud and hadn't smoked in years prior to Thursday.

I have (tremendous) chronic pain and received my MMJ card on Thursday after 2+ years of being on opiates. I bought a high CBD strain called Harle -Tsu, which I've been using along side tinctures during the day, and absolutely love it. Very little head high (which is what I was hoping for) but it does appear to be working pain-wise, despite simultaneously tapering off of opiates.

That said, I've also bought a few strains of (much) higher THC to help with my insomnia and, TBH, to utilize the fact that I can do so. One of which is 31% called Mag Landrace (which I haven't tried yet). I've been using an 80% Northern Lights pen to go to bed and holy shit ROFL.

Anyway... I know you're supposed to decarb, but I found a brownie recipe by Mario Batali. It calls for 4g. I got a deal on 1/4oz of AAA OG at the dispensary today for $25, which claims 16%, and opted to use it. I figured for my first time I likely wouldn't care about (potentially) tasting the greens since I've never had a decarbed brownie.
The recipe- https://www.leafly.com/news/lifestyl...infused-recipe



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TLDR- I have medical card, lots of pain, first time doing/making an edible, and pretty nervous/excited. I know I say a bunch of stupid shit here, so roast away.
AMA.

They don't work unless you talk shit on the first dose and then take another fyi.

Me and SR quit drinking and you have to post this!!!!!

I don't drink either fwiw. I haven't had a sip in 4 years. I knew SR quit but didn't know you had. Congrats and good luck, friend. I'm a buddy of Bill's myself.

Perhaps I skips steps 1 and 2 by proceeding to consume the entire pan?

Welcome, a whole new world now man!

Here’s the gravy train secret....

Use 1oz to 1lb of butter. Put the grass in the oven at 200 for 30 min to decarb... then double boiler the grass and butter for 3-5 hours. Then strain out all the butter with a cheese cloth. I normally let it cool a bit and substitute it in your recipe of choice. Easier to make a double batch of cookies with the 1lb of butter (4 sticks) . Or you can save he butter and use accordingly. For edibles remember that you can always have more so take it slow. If you make a cookie recipe I’d start with 1/2 a cookie and give it a couple hours depending on your metabolism and how much you had to eat before...

No questions, honestly.

gl hf

Thank you! I do want to do this, which I've read multiple times is the best (only) way to go, but my concern is with dosing properly. Smoking is easy enough because I just smoke until I get my desired effect. I'm kinda worried about overdoing it with butter because of my non-existent tolerance.

Then start with 1/4 Cookie. Use the whole batch of butter and you should make anywhere form 80-100 cookies. You won’t OD. My wife does 1/4 and she has no tolerance. I do one whole one. Like i said, only trick is to not dive in head first. Try a small amount and see how it hits. If it’s weak then try more the next day, don’t have extra because sometimes those extra bites hit you with some compound interest highs...... once you get use to how strong your edibles are you will know what to take. Just remember that sometimes it hits in 15 minutes...and I’ve had it take 2 hours...just don’t make the mistake of going oh nothings happening ...let’s have another cookie. That’s why there a bunch of memes about thinking the edible didn’t work so you ate the whole chocolate bar and now your getting dragged off to hell (remember that doctor who got dragged off the plane..that image was used in the meme.....funny and VERY TRUE)

Are u going to consume them anally?

Gosh, hopefully they are at least soft batch....

Would probably give the term "fudge brownie" a new meaning. Probably not on my first go, but I don't like to say never

R U GAY?

This is a winner.

Is there a particular strain or potency % you like to use? I've thought about decarbing this Harle-Tsu because of the high CBD. Admittedly, this was to have some fun, but I am on medical in hopes of pain relief.

I mean $20 is $20

I’ve done edibles many times but have only felt them twice. In Jamaica the ones we got were strong. Had me feeling really good. Then the other day the guy I work with made a couple brownies and he put a whole syringe worth of concentrates in them and I was blasted. Def the highest I’ve ever been off of them.

I'd definitely try the first batch at home.

Put on some headphones and listen to Pink Floyd.

:shrug:

Best batch I made was some $50 shake I got on special last time I strolled through Denver. It ranges anywhere from 26-30% just remember or pay attention to the type of grass. I like hybrids (both indica and sativa). Just remember....Indica=in da couch... and sativa it more mind high. I like things heavy on sativa with bits of indica...if your looking for pain mgmt try a hybrid the leans indica or full on indica. Don’t focus on the potency as long as it’s above 24%...focus of the type of grass (indica or sativa). Make sense?

Damn I can't wait until it's legal for recreational use here and the price drops so I can make some edibles. The Mrs and I went to Seattle in Feb to visit her brother. One of my first stops was a smoke shop. It was so cheap and the various edibles and bones were great. It's supposed to be on the ballot here next year, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Yes it does, thanks again man. I have been buying indica and/or indica dominant so far because that's what was suggested to me for pain. I REALLY like that Harle-Tsu, though I think the thc is very low. I love the body high with very little mind.

Add in 1/4 cup of Prestone.

Damn son I’m on my way to your house.

Np man! My fav strains thus far is black ice (hybrid), blueberry headband( hybrid), recon (full on indica), and some special jawa-pie hybrid strain that tastes JUST like key lime (no clue what type but it was dank)!

I don’t focus on strains because unless your growing your own....the dispensary will rotate there stock constantly so you won’t be able to focus on just one or two. That’s why i look for the type and the % of THC. GL man and hopefully your not doing that stuff alone...I mean you can but someone else with ya is funny because it can hit them in different ways. Be safe brotha!

#par-tay at Naptowns....LOL!!

my last crop was laden with seeds, so i intend to work on extracting as much as i can. am just having a hard time pulling the trigger. i will eventually make the time :D

Don’t tell us unless you’re sharing :)

My only experience with edibles is eating half a cookie, bitching about feeling nothing, then literally getting hit with a tidal wave of highness. Ended up puking like a bitch LMAO

Feminize seeds might solve that.

no where around here to get, and illegal to import. its all bush seed :D

I’ve never heard of puking. However, I have had a few experiences where if you described your high on a scale of 1-10 I was at about 47. Did not enjoy that.

I've never liked edibles. Too difficult to control the dosage and timing. I'm a much bigger fan of vaporizers, personally. Good luck, though - hope it helps.

Are the leavings in the cheesecloth good for anything?

Get a good grower contact. They know that stuff, I’m too lazy to learn (plus it’s illegal here as well). But in OK it’s not and it pays to have family there ;) always a good time to visit the fam.!

My brother says he makes them into dog treats...I never tried it because I have small dogs but after double boiling for 3-5 hours there can’t be much left in it so the logic seems legit. Also it won’t be leavings in the cloth it will be like a small brick of wet grass ...ya know that stuff that gets stuck under your mower when you cut the grass while it’s wet.

If you overdo it you will think you are having an asthma attack and are going to die.

I thought it.

Willy Nelson thought it.


Take your blood pressure, realize you're just high AF and you'll be fine.

https://youtu.be/CL2a8fos5NI

You’re welcome.

Why not “trans Europe express”?

****. I knew I left something out!

I'm not stingy :)

I do have tinctures, a dry herb vaporizer, a few bowls and a Northern Lights pen that's ~80% for bed time. I just wanted to try something new.

Vaping it is nice storz- bickle FTW. Love he mighty and the volcano

Damn man. Thankful GA is a bass ackward state.

Buddy of mine has a volcano. The first time I tried it was after I hadn't had any for a month because of a piss test. All I can say is OMG!

IKR!!!!

Heh. Kraftwerk will always be one of those bands that I should like, but somehow never do. Not sure why, but they just don’t do it for me.

What is a volcano?

I've actually never used a Volcano. I've got a Silver Surfer, which probably isn't as smooth, but I like the experience. Seems more organic than inhaling from a bag.

I hear ya and understand. It’s just “one of those songs” ya know...lol

Oh the bag is totally obnoxious...LMAO, my friend always makes a super long bag(like three ft) so your walking around the house carrying a giant looking cotton candy bag. But it’s good stuff!

I made some 10-15 mg capsules and damn did those work good. It was the easiest thing. Just grind up weed, put weed and coconut oil in Mason jar, then I Sous Vide the mason jar. Can't remember the temp but it's the best way to infuse the thc into oil. You have complete control of the temp and it's impossible to burn it. No need to decarb doing it that way. Plus by making the capsules you can control your dosing way easier than you can by putting it in a brownie. I always thought edibles tasted like shit lol.

But good luck, hope everything goes well. Start out low and give it a bit of time. I used to love those capsules and would love to party on them. It's a complete and totally different high than you get with smoking. Ingesting>>>smoking imo

Dafuq I just watch?

Yeah, looks fun.

We had a party at our company a couple of weeks ago and we gave away cake doughnuts as party favors. We had a bunch left over, so the next day we went around and gave them to other companies in our building to say hello.

One of the companies makes marijuana candy, so they gave us three marijuana candy bars, which are now in our company kitchen as a snack. That seems odd, but whatever.

But here's my dilemma. I've never had or used marijuana. I've been tempted to try the candy bars, but I've got a 50+ year streak of being drug free. I'm not sure that I'm interested in breaking that streak.

As a caveat, my wife says that there's no marijuana in the candy bars and that it's only THC or some such thing. But the label says that it contains marijuana, so I'm skeptical.

I'm a little concerned too that I would have the same experience that Jim Ignatowski had.

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Hmmm...yes, capsules are great, but what you are saying doesn't make sense.

If you don't decarb it, then the THC isn't active, which means you would need to heat it up during consumption (like bowl/joint or vaporizer).

If you don't do that, it really won't do much, if anything at all. So yeah, I'm a little confused by your comment here.

The easiest way to do this is to put 1 oz of material in a crock pot with 4 cups of coconut oil on low heat. There is coconut oil that will remain liquid, and also the kind that hardens up. You can use whichever you prefer, but coconut oil is best because of the high fat, which absorbs the THC.

If you don't decarb, you can leave it sit for 6 - 8 hours (or however long you want to make it a little stronger). Stir it every hour or so. It actually will decarb during the first couple of hours this way.

If you do decarb it, then the whole process will be much quicker because you can have it in the crock pot for a couple of hours and get the same affect, or again, leave it a little longer for a little stronger.

To strain, use an old t-shirt that you cut a large piece out of, or a rag that's thin so you can see the tiny holes in it. Lay it inside a large bowl so it lines the inside of the bowl, and then carefully poor the oil into the bowl. Pull the sides of the shirt piece up all around, and then you lift it up and see most of the oil fall right through. Then you can twist it up really tight and squeeze as much as possible out of the material.

Best to use a bowl with a pouring spout on it, and then you can easily poor back into the original oil bottle. You'll see you didn't lose much in the process.

At this point it should be a dark green, almost black, and you'll know you did things right.

To make all of this even easier...

1. Ardent Decarboxylator - https://amzn.to/30gqXHK
2. Magical Butter - https://amzn.to/30ekFsg

Put the material in the Ardent, and let it sit for about an hour.

Then put it in the Magical butter with your butter/oil/alcohol/vegetable glycerin, push the matching button, and wait another couple of hours.

You can easily make butter, oil for cooking or capsules, or tinctures for gummies or just to consume directly.

Also, side tip, if you use your oven for decarb and/or a regular crock pot this will stink up the whole house for a couple of days. Using the Ardent and MagicalButter will avoid that.

Heard it from a friend of a friend...

Days no, afternoon (few hours) yes.

The only time I ever tried edibles was when I had a medical card and bought it from a medical shop, what a rip off. $30 for a brownie that didn't really get me high.

What's interesting about that video is there is a very young Tom Hanks on it too... Maybe you are too stoned to notice...:D

I actually started to mention that, but then I started the video after he staggered out of the room.

I was figuring this was before his Bosom Buddies show, but it must've been a late Taxi episode, because it's credited in 1982, which was when Bosom Buddies ended. It was only two years after his first movie credit as well.

Damn Nickhead gonna give me epilepsy.

My woman doesn’t like smoke, but she takes the capsule from the dispensary. Some nights she’s so high and giggly I’m thinking, damn wish I got high like that still. Low tolerance where did you goooooo.....

You still got that old school vape I sent you?

So it does work as advertised? I've seen that thing mentioned a couple of times now. I'll have to give it a shot.

Granted I didn't decarb, but the brownie didn't get me high. It did, however, put my ass to sleep. Next time I make edibles I'll definitely decarb first. Still, not a bad experience for my first time.

Still got it, though I don't use it much these days. Anymore if I want portability, I just go with a CO2 oil cartridge. It was great to have for a long time though!

I like this guy :)

I guess I worded that wrong. It's usually a 2 step process, but with sous vide you just add an extra hour for decarb. Another good thing with doing it the Sous Vide way is there is no smell. The mason jar keeps all the smell hidden.

Underwear?

Can confirm, lol. You crack me up.

Do they not sell edibles at your local pot shop? Seems to me that might be a whole lot easier.

Not quite. They, according to my MMJ doctor, just authorized making them (medicinally) legal here in MD and are setting up the infrastructure. They do sell gummies but it's absurdly expensive for just a handful of them.

TBH, I just wanted to do edibles to try something new. I don't foresee it being a staple of my pain management. I'll periodically make some just for shits and giggles, but next time I'll do it right and decarb. That ardent setup that DRU linked looks like something I'll eventually purchase.

Yes, works great.

I haven't ordered it yet since my bday is next week. I did, however, decarb 1/4oz of high CBD flower today. It's called cannatonic and boasts 22.5% CBD (4x as high as the Harley-Tsu I liked). It also only has 0.5% THC so I don't have to get stoned.

I've been simmering it in 1/2lb of butter for 1.75 hours and plan to let it go another 1.25. I've been looking at numerous recipes, some sweets and some foods, and will start with ~ 1/4tsp per serving as a base. The good news is, due to the low THC, I won't have to worry about overdoing it.

I'll likely repeat this process with a 1/4oz of Mag Landrace (that 31% THC stuff I have) and start with the same 1/4tsp per serving. I'm on disability for the foreseeable future so I don't have to worry too much if it is too strong a dose lol.

Edit- I read that you can make tinctures with the green after squeezing the butter out so I'm also going to pick up a 1/5th of everclear and a mason jar. I read to store it in a cool/dark place and let sit for 3-4 weeks, or until the booze is green, shaking it up once a day.

I was also looking at this sous vide cooker on Amazon. I may try that as well, though smell is a non issue. I'm close/at least friendly with my neighbors and I told them ahead of time that I was going from opiates to MMJ. Didn't want it to be a shock but none of them care anyway

I will PM you my address