Why doesn't everyone just eat marijuana? Instead of smoking it.

Have you ever had a pot brownie?

I had one on 4/20 because I don't like to smoke since it's bad for my running, but weed is legal in Seattle so I felt like I had to do something.

It was the worst experience ever. You have no control over how much you're consuming. You eat it, then nothing happens, then suddenly out of nowhere like half an hour later you're high off your @$$. At that point you can't do anything about it, so if you ate too much, it's game over.

I broke down laughing in Whole Foods with my friends and couldn't stop. It was scary. I had a stranger point out that he wanted whatever I was having. I decided I needed to get out of the public, so I went home with my two friends. I was sitting in my room and time was passing so slowly and I just wanted it to end. My friends said that it takes a few hours for it to wear off. But time was passing at quarter speed so those were the longest few hours of my life.

I was freaking out so badly that the only thing that calmed me down was the Bekele 5000 WR video which is not even in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSBtxvd5BI

I watched it over and over again for hours.

I don't think I'm ever eating another pot brownie.

First and foremost, custom. In part because smoking pot is a small pastime--can be a social thing.

Second, buy a gram and what's easier, smoking it from a pipe or joint, or cooking it in butter, stinking up the house, then using it in food with imprecise "doses?"

Which brings me to my next point, the effects of smoking are almost immediate, allowing one to better gauge how much they'd like to consume "I think I'm good on that, I'm already high as balls."

In my experience, there is a different high, and while I love edibles (I'm a 2 brownies, 2 cups of coffee followed by a 22 miler kind of oddball) I might prefer the high from smoking. More satisfying, in a way.

The taste of smoking weed is pleasant and who doesn't think bongs are super cool.

John Wesley Harding wrote:

(I'm a 2 brownies, 2 cups of coffee followed by a 22 miler kind of oddball)

Holy crap, how?

In no particular order:

1) It takes much more time and involves preparation, as it needs to be cooked in oil or soaked in alcohol for the THC & cannabinoids to be released.

2) It takes a long time after eating before it "hits".

3) It's very hard to titrate the dose properly for that reason--you usually eat too much or too little.

4) It's less efficient.

xenonscreams wrote:

It was the worst experience ever. You have no control over how much you're consuming. You eat it, then nothing happens, then suddenly out of nowhere like half an hour later you're high off your @$$.

Yep, that's exactly what happens. I bought a big pot cookie from a guy who bought it from some medical marijuana dispensary. Apparently 1 dose was equal to 1/4th of the cookie. I didn't know that, so I ate it the whole thing. A half hour later it hit me while I was in Walgreens looking to buy a soda. I walked around the store forever trying to decide which soda to buy.

xenonscreams wrote:

John Wesley Harding wrote:

(I'm a 2 brownies, 2 cups of coffee followed by a 22 miler kind of oddball)

Holy crap, how?

Ha, I smoke more than I should so I have somewhat of a tolerance. But I find long, easy runs to be very easy when stoned. I easily run according to feel, and get lost in thought till it occurs to me I've covered a lot of ground. So yes, I've done a 21, a 22.5, and a 26.5 miler when pretty damn high.

I ran a 10 mile trail race after some edibles this fall, and found it difficult to press harder than marathon pace, on that occasion. Thankfully, it was just a tune-up a week prior to the Twin Cities Marathon.

Very inefficient: Baking marijuana wastes a lot of THC compared to other smoking ways

Different high: Baked goods give you a body high compared to a head high

Tolerance: From my experience, my body builds a tolerance quicker to things I eat compared to what I smoke

Smell: Baking stinks up the house

Edibles are expensive. Making them yourself requires access to a lot of low-grade weed. Nobody is going to make pot-butter from good weed. You'd spend $100 to make a batch of brownies. So you need to be a grower or know one, first of all. Next, making it requires simmering it in a pot overnight, then cooking something (20+min at 375+) with the butter, and most people don't have the patience for that.

Then, the effect is a bit different and most people don't like it as much.

xenonscreams wrote:

I was freaking out so badly that the only thing that calmed me down was the Bekele 5000 WR video which is not even in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSBtxvd5BI

I watched it over and over again for hours.

Coincidentally I have watched that same video over and over again.

Except I was practicing Dutch not recovering from 4 doses of pot...

xenonscreams wrote:

I was freaking out so badly that the only thing that calmed me down was the Bekele 5000 WR video which is not even in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSBtxvd5BI

I watched it over and over again for hours.

Haha only on LetsRun

Because when you enhale very deeply taking the smoke of marijuana into your lungs...IT IS VERY VERY healthy for you. The smoke of pot fights cancer and actually stops all sickness. If you spike it before smoking it, is even more healthy! My buddy in Colorado...he sucks huge tokes of marijuana for a few hours..ALWAYS SPIKED OF COURSE, then he only has to drink a few shots...and he is ready to go out for the night! He is under the legal alcohol limit and sucking healthy smoke into his lungs! He is so funny...he says when he drives..he believes he is really the bug on the windshield...looking into the car...he has no memory of driving at all!!!! Hilarious!!!!

Pretty much what everybody's said. Edibles affect everybody differently tho. I ate a brownie and wrote my senior thesis. Every time I sat down to write it, I made sure to eat one first. I figured I was going to be sitting for a while anyway, so the body high would help keep me stationary. My paper was on the multiverse, kinda helped ;)

I liked eating it so much better than smoking. Smoking does so little for me that it's not even worthwhile, but the first time I tried edibles it was awesome. I think the people who have freakouts are just prone to that sort of thing.

MacDaddy wrote:

Very inefficient: Baking marijuana wastes a lot of THC compared to other smoking ways

Different high: Baked goods give you a body high compared to a head high

Tolerance: From my experience, my body builds a tolerance quicker to things I eat compared to what I smoke

Smell: Baking stinks up the house

FRYING weed is very efficient. just take a big slab of butter, and put it on top of broken up weed in a pan. by the time the butter melts and starts to boil, the weed is cooked. Butter works well because it burns at a low temperature. If you haven't burned up much butter, you haven't burned much THC. Toast or bagels work for dipping. It will probably taste bad to you unless you're a stoner though.

geez, are there any recipes that don't involve butter?

(asking for a friend)

Xenon,

WOW, what a story. I'm sorry for your bad trip.

You gave me a good laugh though!

You will get the weed equivalent of an acid flashback. If you have to work or do something productive don't ever eat pot brownies or cookies. For a prank give one to the biggest stick in the mud you know and have fun when the high kicks in just don't give them one pot cookie or brownie so they won't know it's you....

you only need about 0.25g/per person.it only takes 20 - 25 mins in frying pan with oil - just gotta be careful not to burn.you sound like you are part of the problem - talking a lot about things you know little aboutgood luck - be attentive to the accuracy of your statements, luckily this particular topic is of little importance

bun hugger wrote:

Edibles are expensive. Making them yourself requires access to a lot of low-grade weed. Nobody is going to make pot-butter from good weed. You'd spend $100 to make a batch of brownies. So you need to be a grower or know one, first of all. Next, making it requires simmering it in a pot overnight, then cooking something (20+min at 375+) with the butter, and most people don't have the patience for that.

Then, the effect is a bit different and most people don't like it as much.

I didn't read the thread, but smoking is more efficient in $$. You can a ton of people high off a small amount of good weed. Takes more weed to get high from eating it.