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Does cannabis have to be cooked?

hanky8r

hanky8r

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Does cannabis have to be cooked, example brownies. One day my friend asked me if he could just put some ground up weed on a peanut butter sandwich, and eat it.

I know this would taste like shit, but I have no gag reflex, and it got me thinking. It wouldn't be anything for me to eat some weed, I could do it easily.

Is their something necessary in simmering the weed or having it cooked? Does it do something to it that makes it active? If cooking itsn't necessary, i'd just pour some ground up bud into a protein shake and chug it.

What's the deal?
 
the amount of THC you would be able to absorb would be so little, that it would be extremley wasteful to eat it raw. plus it tastes like poop!
 
hey if it's good buds I think weed tastes great. I like to chew on the odd stem and eat a little bit of shake every once in a while.

But I'm pretty sure it won't do much if you eat it raw lol. I've never seen a definitive study or anything, but most people agree that it needs to be cooked.
 
I've eaten bud raw twice.. Once on a mini pizza, once on a piece of toast. Both times I ate a little less than a blunt's worth, and got absolutely trashed. Probably my two most intense marijuana experiences.

A while ago, I had some good buds (enough to get high smoking, like, 15 times) that I simmered in butter. I ate the butter and everything in the pan, and got absolutely nothing out of it. I know it was good bud, because I had already smoked quite a bit of the same sack... Still not sure what went wrong.

Anyways, eating it raw isn't out of the question.
 
Eating about a bowl's worth raw has worked for me. Just grind it up (or just grab some shake) and use some water or something to wash it down just like you would a pill.
It took about 2 hours to kick in, but it works. I always found eating it to be more intense than smoking. And I also wanted to see if eating it raw would waste it, it does not. It will still work fine (at least it has for me).
 
The word that needs to be brought up here is "decarboxylation"... cannabis contains THC-acids (THC-COOHs)... some strains and/or drying, curing processes can leave you a lot of of THC acids... THC-COOHs rapidly turn back to THC when they are heated... so cooking the weed one way or another converts the THC-COOHs back to THC, and makes the product more potent
 
thanks BilZ0r, i always thought that for some reason it had to be cooked. i guess the decarb thing is what it has to go through

i read another post about making cannabutter that was real helpful too. Is the reason that brownies or baked weed products get you so high because the THC is absorbed all in the bread product, and therefore absorbed by the body very well??
 
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