The average pot enthusiast is more likely to dump an ounce of shake into some brownie batter, rather than whip up something actually digestible and effective, so I decided to share some of the best edibles tips to up your cannabis cooking.   Concocting your own pot brownies has long been a haphazard and inexact science for recreational stoners—instructions will vary on the amount of bud and method of infusion, and often DIY cannabis cooks pay no mind to the potency of the strain they're...

From the Cannabis Medical Dictionary CannabisMD.net Diabetes is a condition wherein the body either produces inadequate amounts of insulin or fails to utilize available insulin properly. An estimated 1 million Americans suffer from Type 1 diabetes, which develops in childhood. Another 15 million suffer from Type 2 diabetes, also known as adult onset diabetes, which develops later in life.Symptoms generally include an imbalance of blood sugar levels and a high level of sugar excreted through the...

Tetrahydrocannabinol is insoluble in water, but soluble in oil or alcohol. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), often considered to be the primary active substance in cannabis, along with other psychoactive cannabinoids are hydrophobic oils, which are insoluable in water but soluble in liquids (oil/fat) and alcohol.Using either one of these to extract THC from cannabis is required to have the cooked product be psychoactive. During preparation the cannabis or its extract must be heated sufficiently or...

Cannabis Edible companies spend their mornings transforming flour, Cannabutter made from low grade weed, sugar and lots of other mysterious things, into pastries, cakes, cookies, etc. — so you don’t have to!? You bow down before them as if their dry, tasteless "treats" are the gods own Ambrosia. But every once in a while, you Think about grabbing the apron and whipping up a batch of brownies. Baking excellence Does not line the shelves of most dispensaries, there are now some restaurants or...

In a legal marijuana market, edibles are dosed in milligrams. For those of us who would smoke a joint here and there, upon entry into the legalized reality, you suddenly have to grapple with this fact. Sure, we’ve been buying weed in some hybridized state between grams (metric) and ounces (imperial) for a while, yet the concept of how much weed you need for edibles comes down to differences in how we understand weight as a measure of effect. In truth, seeing “10 milligrams” next to an edible is...

Whether you are making it for gift giving, parties, or just because it is Christmas, successful candy making is relatively easy if you know the tricks of the trade.   The holidays wouldn’t be the same without all the wonderful homemade candy. Divinity, fudge, caramels, peanut brittle…the list can go on and on. Whether you are making it for gift giving, parties, or just because it is Christmas, successful candy making is relatively easy if you know the tricks of the trade. 1. First and...

Another method is cannaflour. Grind the cannabis up as fine as you can get it,I like to use a spice grinder, and mix it with the following ratio: for every 1 cup of flour,mix a 1/4 cup of powdered cannabis. Your final product is cannaflour, and you can use it in just about every baking recipe in place of flour.  

(also: bud butter, ganja butter.....etc.) The most convenient way to use and store marijuana for cooking is to make marijuana butter, which can be cut into pieces and ziploc bagged for freezing and later used in cooking of all kinds.Here is the basic recipe: INGREDIENTS; 1 lb. of butter (no margarin) 1/2 ounce of marijuana BUD (or 1 ounce of shake or 2 ounces of leaf or 3 ounces of stems) DIRECTIONS; Place marijuana and butter in crockpot. It is convenient to cook 3 or 4 pounds of butter at one...