Cannabis as food, major effect with no harm
Marijuana, for the presence of cannabinoids, is consumed for recreational and medicinal purposes. Let the medicos do their parts while we find ways to recreate the delight of consuming this herb through the food pipe rather than the wind pipe. The alternate delivery of the cannabinoids into cake, cookie, brownie, or other foods gives an all new mesmerizing effect of marijuana intake.
This channel of directing ‘high’ power of cannabis stands on the fact that the primary active substance, THC, present in cannabis is friendly to mix with lipids like oil, alcohol etc, the property scientifically called ‘being hydrophobic’ (water repelling and oil soluble). For this affable quality, it can be used as a dynamic element in many recipes. From the ancient times, when good quality cannabis with its resin could be boiled with milk to prepare the traditional bhang to the modern times, when it can be baked to prepare space cakes (common name for hash cookies), it has exuded its essence in all possible realms.
Talking of slurping it, cannabis can simply be heated with the butter for less than 30 minutes per 8grams at not more than 99*C to obtain butterjuana or canna butter. With a mere replacement, a lot of bakery foodstuff can be “cannabised”. If this magical butter substitutes the normal butter in preparation of chocolate muffins, cookies, cakes and brownies it can transform them into the charge-food. However, his butter alone will not make you high, as it absorbs compound called TCHA which is not very psychoactive and hence this needs to be baked to around 122*C to detach the ‘A’ from it so it exudes the psychoactive effect of THC. And this isn’t just limited to butter. There are cannamilk, cannaoil, cannacream which are prepared in a relatively similar fashion and can be used as a replacement to the ingenuous ingredients for turning the innocent drinks, sweets, snacks, munchies and dips wicked. This amazing derivative, if left openly on a kitchen shelf for experimentation, can do wonders
Another version of awesomeness is hash cookies which are similar to marijuana cookies but stronger as almost half the quantity of cookies is contributed by hashish as a direct contributor. This however needs more methodical steps to be taken for the psychoactive effect to not diminish.
Oral consumption, this way, saves the respiratory track the efforts of sending the highness in the blood streams as they can now be progressively absorbed in the digestive track creating the well-liked “head high”. This is because of its innocuous persistence into the system that gives more powerful and long lasting effect. Moreover, it is preferable to take this food-stuff to the places where smoking is inconvenient like parties and cafes. Indeed, this is an indisputable way of marijuana consumption. Those, for whom smoking is a taboo, we have weed feed. Because, good things come in small packs.
