THE LOTUS EATERS CORNER---( for all of us who don't smoke )

[Sam Slambam]

Welcome everyone!


I thought it would be nice to start a general thread for those of us who either rarely smoke or don't smoke at all. A place for everyone to share thoughts, stories, memories, information, ideas, experiences, and whatever else we can associate with the act of orally consuming cannabis.


I for one have been orally consuming cannabis as my main method of ingestion for around 10 years. I find that smoking brings on the effects too quickly for my tastes and much prefer the smooth glide that oral consumption provides. To be honest, I don't know why more people don't prefer it as well!! I find the effects to be far more satisfying on all levels.


The main misconceptions I encounter from those not in the know are generally related to bad experiences people have had trying to eat cannabis. Usually this means, they either TOTALLY overdid it one time, ( I know I have quite a few times), OR, they claim to never be able to achieve any effects from eating cannabis.



This boils down to a pretty simple solution, keep it simple.

People seem to either try the whole brownie thing and then give up when they get waaaay too high or not high at all.


Here is my favorite and simplest way of getting the old gal into me,



Coffee + Hash + Steamed Half and Half = good to go!



I simply make my morning cup of coffee, steam the half and half in a small sauce pan, throw in a piece of hash and let it get nice and mixed into the cream, pour into coffee and voila!


The main caveat I can give from my experience is that it is most effective on an empty stomach with as little sugar as possible. I usually have my cup of coffee and eat 20 - 30 minutes later just to give the hash enough time to get worked in to me.


This has never let me down, but just be careful not to over do it!!!




How about anyone else?


Am I the lone Lotus Eater?

I mean, I know a lot of people like to eat cannabis once and a while, but I want to hear from those everyday folks.....!!!

 

[Guest]

Incredibly simple, going to have to give that one a go when I have some decent stuff to deal with. Good post.

Gonna have to come back and rep you later, I'm out!

 

[hippie_lettuce]

i agree with you there sam i like eating cannabis better than smoking it. although..sometimes when i ate it i'd get a little nauseous..should i be doing something else? i have mainly treated the herb like...an herb! great on a pizza, that's for sure..

 

[Megas]

i agree with you there sam i like eating cannabis better than smoking it. although..sometimes when i ate it i'd get a little nauseous..should i be doing something else? i have mainly treated the herb like...an herb! great on a pizza, that's for sure..

Are you just mowing down on it like a rabbit on a bush? I could see that giving you nausia. Grind it up and cook it in something. Even like warm sauce for pasta strir it in and bam!

 

[Sam Slambam]

hey hippie,

the only times i can say that eating cannabis has ever had an adverse effect on me would be if I overdid it, or if say i was eating something with cannabutter in it that had kind of gone sour. I now prefer to avoid cannabutter as much as possible, only because, well, you know, eating lots of butter everyday just ain't all that good for ya. Which is why i like hash, it seems to be easier to activate than ground up bud. I have no hard science to back this up, it's just my personal opinion based on my personal experiences over the years. BTW, I have to make my own hash as that shit RARELY makes in on the mersh scene.

 

[jaykush]

i make a similar drink

black chai tea, milk, butter, and a drop of honey as well as hash. works like a charm and gets u real toasted.

i agree with eating hash over buds. much more effective and taste better and is all around better.

 

[hippie_lettuce]

< rabbit on a bush LOL!
i guess maybe i shouldn't have put so much on my pizza that one time..! next time i want to dedicate one whole plant to food-related items. i can't afford a vaporizer so i guess cooking with it is the way to go.

 

[Sam Slambam]

Jaykush,


Butter in the tea eh? I tried that once, making a spiced chai with butter in it. It was way too oily, how do yours come out?


That's my main gripe with coffee's and tea's, all the oil we want seems to constantly float to the top and sort of form an oil slick.

I'm still looking for the easiest method of ingestion, I'd much prefer the ability to even just have a geltab of some sort that could do the trick.

 

[robotwithdreams]

so about how much hash do u put in a cup of coffee? I tried this a few a years ago and it was pretty ineffective. Butter on the other hand , with just about anything has always been exceptional.

 

[Unsane]

I have always found that putting .5 to 1g of ground up bud (high quality) in a glass of warm milk makes for a good high--not too strong, not too weak.

I usually don't consume cannabis however. I usually don't have time to be high for more than 1.5 hours.

 

[darklands]

That's my main gripe with coffee's and tea's, all the oil we want seems to constantly float to the top and sort of form an oil slick.

I'm still looking for the easiest method of ingestion, I'd much prefer the ability to even just have a geltab of some sort that could do the trick.

I find that the key to ingesting butter in a hot liquid like coffee or tea is to minimize the volume of liquid. A shot of buttery espresso goes down a lot easier than a bigass oily latte.

Cannabutter capsules are my main ingestible, though, because you don't have to taste them and they store indefinitely in the fridge. They're easy to make without special equipment, but you need the butter to be as potent as possible so that you're not eating huge amounts of fat just to get off.

I often see people asking how much weed they should use to make, say, a pound of butter, which to me is going about it the wrong way. The better question is how much butter should you use to extract a given amount of weed. One capsule is certainly enough to get high, and that's probably only about a quarter teaspoon of butter. So first I determine how many times the given amount of weed will get me high, and then I divide by four. That's how many teaspoons of raw butter I'll need to extract the weed.

Great thread idea, Sam!

 

[Sam Slambam]

Howdy folks!!!

Sorry to have been so neglectful of this thread, but offline life took priority for the last couple months.


@Darklands---

Awesome! I love your suggestions! Now, one question, how the hell do you go about getting the butter in the capsules?! Isn't a big greasy mess?!



I recently did an experiment. I took a stick of butter, and an eight of some really potent/ sativa'y Mountain Jam I had kicking around, ( and some kief), and cooked up a batch of cannabutter using the usual methods kicking around on this site. I let that butter congeal and the next day, I took that same butter, and repeated the process, only this time I added yet ANOTHER eighth to the mix. Cooked, strained, recongealed. THEN, I took a half stick of butter, added that to the mix from the previous two batches, and added a whole 1/4 oz and some more kief. The next day I made about 14 simple sugar cookies out of this butter.


WOAH

That is ALL i can say.


Everyone I know who I have shared with, ( i only share, NEVER sell), was blown the fuck away. I have one friend, who claims that he cant get off from eating cannabis... I invited him over, he ate a whole cookie, and in about one hour was way off in deep space some where! Haha. He ate his words to me the next day when he recovered.


Let me put it to you all like this, one little bite, about the size of a nickle is plenty good enough for me and most people. I tried eating a whole cookie, and let me just say, unless you are ready for some sort of Terence Mckenna, crossing over to the other side type of experience, it is NOT recommended to eat a whole cookie of this sort!!!!


Hope everyone is enjoying the Spring!!