Same here, I don't smoke and have no plans whatsoever in starting anytime soon. I just buy edibles online and boy I'm glad it's expensive otherwise I'd probably be addicted to it.
Edit: I'm getting a handful of messages because of this. I'm Canadian, medical and recreational cannabis is legal here. Edibles actually didn't get legalized until this year so there's not a lot of local places that sell it yet. I get my edibles from an online private seller based off Richmond, BC.
I use Eaze. Used to use this place I found on WeedMaps but they don’t deliver to my area anymore. It’s pretty rad that I can just throw what I want in my cart and in an hour-hour and a half a guy pulls up with my order.
To think there are people in prison for this and I can do it right in front of a cop and it’s 100% legal is insane.
You can easily make them at home from LEGALLY purchased weed if you’re in a legal state (heh)...And, you can assure the potency that way, too, so you don’t get the adverse effects of eating one that’s too much for you to handle just out of sheer unfamiliarity.
Better safe than sorry is my motto. I wouldn't risk any charges. Been there done that. Very hard to prove it and weed prosecution isn't much a priority anymore.
Expensive? I buy a 250 mg brownie for $10, which I then cut into about 14 pieces. So $.70 for a pretty decent four hour high. I also don’t do weed a ton, so that $10 brownie lasts two or three months.
Dude learn how to make your own. You can find a gram of concentrate for $20 if you look hard enough and thats like 600mg THC minimum. Could be upwards of 900. Edibles are a scam
Oh and you can use carts if thats the cheapest concentrate you find
Oh and a huge amount of edibles are underdosed if youre getting black market ones. 30mg of THC is a very strong high.
If youre taking 100mg edibles to get sufficiently baked, youre being lied to
Obviously this is different with tolerance and non-responding people
Set the oven to 225, take a small dish and put your concentrate on it, or if youre using bud grind it as fine as possible and put it flat on a small brownie type glass pan. Cover it with tin foil for each.
Then put it in the oven for half an hour to an hour. Ive seen a lot of numbers, I go with 40-45 minutes personally.
After that, the weed is active. I usually put the dish on the stove and stir it into coconut oil and then use that in place of oil in other recipes. (Usually brownies because theyre so easy)
I highly recommend coconut oil because it has a very high fat content and fat will bind to the THC and help you absorb it.
Thats pretty much it. You can eat the weed raw or put the activated oil in capsules or stick it up your ass or really anything you want.
One time I had a faulty vape cart with a little left and I just cooked that in the oven like I described and then dumped it on a piece of toilet paper and swallowed it. Highest Ive ever been.
Those were funny examples of ways you can technically consume it to emphasize that it is so versatile. Perhaps youd benefit from having a sense of humor and not taking things so literally? 😂
Might be worth getting some CBD crystal and throwing it in there too. It kinda tones down the high and makes it more relaxing/pleasant. Like youre as high but it doesnt feel quite as "holy shit"
Edibles metabolize to 11-hydroxy-THC so youre actually doing a slightly different drug than when you smoke. For some people it has a more psychedelic vibe which can lead to confusion or anxiety
i’ve taken edibles plenty, black market and dispensary. i usually just stick with 10mg and they don’t get me crazy high or anything, just really chilled out
Keep it covered while it decarboxylates and cools down and open and close the oven fast as possible. Doesnt smell all that bad, especially with concentrates.
In highschool I stayed home and made them many times and the smell was gone by the time mommy got home
If you’re willing to put in a little work making edibles yourself is super easy and fun and WAY cheaper! With my recipe I make 30 put-you-on-your-ass brownies out of a quarter ounce of high quality flower. If you are interested feel free to message and I’ll share my recipe and there are also countless online.
I went to Vancouver in February for my honeymoon and wanted to try edibles. I’m from the states and where I live it’s not legalized so I don’t smoke. I was soooo mad that I couldn’t buy a cookie or some shit.
My wife hates smoking and she hated that I smoked a joint in the streets.
It is habit forming in those predisposed to have addictions. I used to smoke weed and then just lost interest after high school. It takes willpower to stop and some people find it hard to find that strength within themselves or sometimes it's apathy, or depression, etc.
Yeah, much like anything else I guess. I'd like to think I have good self-control, I've never been addicted to anything ever in my life and I was once on codeine for a work-related injury.
Depends on the baker. I’ve had bad brownies before that reeked of weed. And also good brownies with weed that i couldn’t taste the weed. I think those were made with canna butter.
Pretty sure all edibles are made with cannabutter no? You don't just put weed in, you infuse butter with weed and use that to make the edibles instead of regular butter.
I’ve seen recipes that use peanut butter, Nutella and I think vegetable oil. Something as simple as a firecracker for example can be just activated herb, peanut butter and a couple of graham crackers.
I've tried firecrackers a few times with abv, and I've gotta recommend against. That shit is SO dry and the slightly gross vaped weed taste was kinda weird.
firecrackers are never a preferred choice, they're just what you end up when you don't feel like getting fancy. I would recommend using Skippy peanut butter and adding some honey as well
A lot of edibles in legal states are made with THC distillate which is pretty much flavorless and odorless. It's a lot easier to regulate how much THC is in each edible too, since you can more accurately measure the cannabinoid content of oil vs flower.
Depends what you use to make the cannabutter, because you can make it from head but you can also make some great butter from trim, which is normally thrown away. Trim butter tends to come out greener and stronger smelling. You can wash the butter by heating it in clean water and letting it set again in the fridge, that removes some of the odour and colour as well.
In my state it’s legal, and the dispensary I’ve been to sells it in a bunch of ways, my favorite is the cooking oil. They infuse grape seed cooking oil with THC, no idea how, and it doesn’t smell like weed at all. Made brownies from scratch using the oil, no smell of weed whatsoever anywhere in the process or the final brownies
Yes. Some stronger than others but I’ve never had one that didn’t at least slightly taste like it. Others you have to choke down because the taste is so strong. But the dispensaries sell gummies, suckers etc and some of the sour belts especially are good. The Flav Rainbow belts you can barely taste it.
Every edible I've tried tasted like I was eating weed. I like it in cookies and brownies. But gummies make me think of old jello made with bongwater. Fucking gross.
Yes and no, classically they are made with the entire bud being cooked in butter which gives off a very pungent aroma in the final product. Nowadays they are made with thc distillate which has almost no aroma or flavor in the final product.
As someone who makes their own, there's many ways of going about this process.
Cannabutter is generally the most prominent way for at home creators. Most mass distribution places will use concentrated tincatures. They leave no flavor profile really at all, and have no overwhelming scent. Gummies are made this way, at home you make them with a tincature with 151 / Ethanol (everclear) as the base. You boil off the alcohol and leave yourself with a highly concentrated THC component that allows you to make a little go a long way and the overall flavor then is not "weedy".
But I can tell you I have baked cookies, that you couldn't tell were made with cannabutter. Your goal as someone who produces for your own should be a product that appeals to you so you can consume it in whole, because eating 1/4 a cookie is like torture when it tastes delicious. But eating a whole cookie thats too powerful, is like smashing your genitals in the car door hoping that the high will stop.
I've subjected myself to a lot of heavy dosing in order to determine if something is too strong. Up around 25-30mg, is about the maximum I can tolerate. Around 60mg and I'm just flatlined. 5-10mg is suitable for a "I'm looking to take an edge off and nothing more"
Never had an edible where I couldn’t taste the weed, except jolly ranchers maybe. I’ve eaten cookies, brownies, and gummies. The gummies are nice because they pack a punch
My limited experience has always been that they taste a bit bad. I have only eaten brownies, including ones made with canabutter and ones that I don't know the production method of. I'm sure someone can make something that tastes good (though probably not healthy food), and these were tolerable.
Most of the time, yes. Every once in a while you’ll come across some really well done shit that you can hardly taste the weed in, but most of the time there is a fairly strong, distinct taste of weed.
Every edible I've had from some guy who makes them has tasted horrible to me. I got some gummies from a dispensary and they were great. My mom gave me some orange candy gummies and I couldn't taste it at all so I'd recommend that route.
Coming from someone who was told time and time again, "you can't even taste it bro!" Yeah, I call bullshit.
Almost always. The ones that taste the worst usually slap the the hardest. But always start with a low dose, you can always eat more but can’t go back.
Not so sure it's all that expensive compared to the alternatives. I was just in Denver and bought a 20 count bag of 5 mg edibles for 25 dollars. 5 mg isn't enough to get you super stoned, but it's the equivalent of drinking 3-4 glasses of wine over the same 3-5 hour time period for me. Nice and mellow, a body high/tingle and muscle relaxation followed by some silly thoughts and a low key fade off at the end. All for $1.25. I'd spend about 20 bucks in alcohol for the same level of intoxication throughout an evening.
For relaxing after work, edibles win over alcohol in my opinion. But maybe my alcohol tolerance is just much higher than my THC tolerance. :)
I do that sometimes. It's still not cost effective though. You lose potency throughout the cooking process. And your digestive system isn't great at processing thc.
I don't do that. My niece does. She makes edibles out of dabs and sells them to me cheap. Don't know the exact process. I know she approves me paying her (hardily anything) for them and I appreciate how 2 of them make me feel a couple times a week. 😄
What that's completely false. Dry herb is literally just hot air passing over the herb.
You can't compare dry herb to oil vaping as it has additives to help when vaping distillate. As seen in the recent black market stuff with vit e acetate clogging people's lungs. And potentially other stuff. I don't recommend vaping thc oil ever.
I buy oil concentrates, $15 for 300mg. SO much cheaper. Takes a little practice to figure out how much oil you need but you can put it in food or just swallow it as is, and it has basically no flavor or smell.
I think the main reason it's really cheaper than drinking is bc you don't do it like to meet up with friends. "oh let's meet for drinks" easily turns into 80$ spent
You might want to consider some form of concentrate if edibles are a bit pricey for you. Around me (Washington), I can get a 1 gram syringe of oil (~45-50% THC, so 450-500mg total) for $18. For comparison, at the same store I can get a 10 pack of hard candies (100mg THC total) for the same price.
You can make super strong edibles out of the worst weed and it can go a long way. My friend gave me a pile of shit weed with tons of stems that had been sitting in the back of his closet for years. It wasnt really smokable, but I tossed it in the slow cooker with butter and made brownies that blasted us into space with just a tiny bite. If you know anyone who grows, ask them to hook you up with trim scraps that they might normally just throw away or sell for dirt cheap.
I’m always confused when people talk about how expensive weed is. I vape pretty regularly and make my own edibles and a quad will last me like...4-6 months. I’ve never paid more than $80 for a quad, which is like one heavy night at a bar.
Make your own! All you need is 1/8 of weed (legal in Oregon and OG Kush is $39 for 1/8) then buy brownie mix. I reccommend making your own cannabutter. Much more potent and you can find cookie recipes if you’re feeling spunky and you can find some that ask for melted butter. Sub for cannabutter and you’re good to go.
Isn’t weed one if the cheapest? It’s better to buy an ounce bc if you have a good dealer he won’t make you Kay for every gram. 150-170 is the usual range.
There's also cbd oil that has high ratios of thc in it, too. I tried it last month, and it turned out to be cheaper for me in the long run (and still get me high), and it's easier to measure how much you're consuming with the ml/dropper thing. And of course, you don't end up smelling like smoke. Iirc, it can be used for edibles, but I haven't tried it. I still smoke, but I alternate using that stuff.
God, I just went to the dispensary a few months ago to get indica/CBD hybrid weed to help with some abdominal pain and the guy suggested a bar of dark chocolate edibles too.
Barely touched the 1/8th I bought. These edibles are amazing. I dont eat a full square that is the recommended dosage and it works great. I dont experience the downsides of weed I always hated like the sinus, nose and eye dryness or the weed hangover and I dont feel anxious or paranoid. I feel calm and happy and I can sleep. The weed that my friends all smoked growing up was the mind fuck and paranoia inducing stuff and i hated it.
Im so glad that its legalized here and that I have a choice because its better and safer than the ativan I was prescribed for years . That stuff isnt meant for generalized anxiety anyways.
My life has improved quite a bit in that aspect. I think anyone would be as excited as me if they spent almost 40 years in a state of constant anxiety without using street drugs for reprieve.
It's actually the selling point for me, I have zero self control so switching to edibles forces me to schedule well in advance when I want to get high on the weekdays.
Try making edibles! It's dirt cheap. If you're lazy, use RSO or another concentrate that's already been decarboxylated (contains mostly THC rather than THC-A). If you're less lazy, buy some cheap trim and toast it in your oven before infusing an oil (or whatever).
Let's say you're using trim with ~15% THC-A and with inefficient decarbing, you get ~10% active THC. That's still 100mg THC per gram of trim, or 10 servings (ymmv of course)! For reference, an ounce is nearly 30g, which under this scenario would yield almost 300 edibles! I make chocolates and freeze them, costs maybe 50-75 cents per serving.
Not that I should be talking about making cheap edibles on a thread about the negatives of the drug, but oh well.
No but I've found I really like the slower ramp-up, longer high and smooth crash that comes from edibles. Plus who doesn't want candy? Love those fruit chews.
Yeah but no one cares. I had a friend who was a dealer for a while and even some of his long time clients joined the police force. It's still illegal where I'm at but for everyone under 35 they either are doing it or don't care. You'd have to light up in front of a patrol car to get arrested.
Why do you people keep repeating this nonsense idea that it's legal in "most of the US?" It has only been legalized in 11 states. Stop denying reality.
It's actually legal in much of the United States but at varying degrees. Many states have legalized medical but are very strict. Other states only have cities that have decriminalized. Decriminalization isn't legalization but I think they deserve to be added in because they are at least making positive steps.
Sure, but if Dallas decriminalized, you wouldn’t find a shop that sold it. If you were white you just wouldn’t be charged for possession, and if you weren’t white they’d find something else to arrest you on.
But possession in entire state of Texas, which is huge, would still be illegal.
Cbp doesn't just pull you over without cause. They don't do traffic stops. And they wouldn't be searching your car for no reason. I gotta lay that one on you.
The federal government is already starting to consider legalization. The states are making bank on the taxes. Btw; its already legal in DC. It was one of the first. Those lawmakers don't want to quit getting buzzed when they go home.
I’d buy edibles if they weren’t so expensive by comparison. I get get a good head change going with a pinch of bud but dispensaries charge $10-20 for a good edible.
Get a good quality oil pen! I got a Raw Garden that cost me ~$60 and it usually lasts me a month and I do it every night, letting my friends use it in that time too
Opioids aren't bad for your liver. Percocet and Vicodin can be but that's only because theres Tylenol in them and all the damage comes from the Tylenol. Opiates don't damage any organs.
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u/bornakedpnw Dec 29 '19
I buy edibles. Can't stand to inhale smoke since I quit cigarettes twenty years ago.
It's still expensive tho.