A professional cannabis chef has great advice to get you started on making cannabis edibles at home. This post from Philly420 shares tips on cooking with cannabis. Are you ready for dinner with Mary Jane? Perhaps we can start with a Waldorf salad made with freshly collect keef, then move on to marijuana butter mashed potatoes and generous slices of hash oil infused, ... Continue Reading
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Dosing Homemade Cannabis Edibles: Tough Task
Accurately dosing your homemade cannabis edibles is harder than you think. This post from Leafly explains why it’s nearly impossible to calculate the potency of cannabis edibles. Leafly turned March Madness into an excuse to determine the best cannabis-infused brownie of all time. Eight recipes were pitted against each other in our Pot Brownie Bracketology project, and ... Continue Reading
An Exploding Market for Tantalizing Marijuana Edibles
The growing popularity of marijuana edibles, more potent than marijuana itself, is leading to increased use among adolescents and increased hospitalizations. This post from NBC News discusses the challenges created by cannabis industry’s enthusiasm for these highly intoxicating edibles. Forty years ago, making a pot brownie meant crushing some buds into your batter and ... Continue Reading
STUDY: Anxiety – Heterogeneity in the Composition of Marijuana Seized in California
ABSTRACT: Background Marijuana contains multiple cannabinoids. Most attention is given to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which produces euphoria and in some cases anxiety and panic reactions. Research suggests that another cannabinoid, cannabidiol (CBD), may offset some of these effects. Thus, there is growing interest in the health consequences of the THC to CBD ratio ... Continue Reading