Yes, it is simple to make delicious marijuana brownies - of known potency - at home, for much less than buying them at the dispensary or pot shop. If you want six pot brownies for the price of one, read on - Stoner Living will show you how!
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| Thirty Six Lovely Brownies, Each with 18mg THC! |
Legal marijuana comes in many forms: cured flower, pre-rolled joints, extracts in cartridges and edible formats. Edibles are of particular interest to health conscious consumers because they eliminate the hazards associated with smoking: no smoke, no carbon monoxide, no smelly cloud.
In states with legal marijuana, edible marijuana confections and beverages are made with strict limits on the active ingredient. In Washington state, this limit is 10 mg THC per piece, with a maximum of 10 pieces in a package or 100 mg THC total. Having such limits is a prudent policy, and as somebody who has overdone edibles, I can attest that it isn't fun to overdo it. I've polished off a plate of medicated brownies and then slept for 17 hours. With store bought marijuana edibles, you know how much THC you will get per item, making for a much safer cannabis experience.
When cooking with cannabis flower, it is difficult to accurately estimate to estimate the quantity of THC in a given brownie. But, by cooking with extracts purchased at the dispensary, it's possible to make excellent quality home-made marijuana edibles of known potency. The ability to make these products at home is wonderful for vegans or other orthorexics out there.
The easiest way to safely make medibles is to begin with an edible concentrate, like RSO (Rick Simpson Oil). RSO is an alcohol extracted cannabis extract that can be added to anything you wish to cook. With a little simple math, it's easy to reliably calculate the THC quantity in each piece of your delicious, home made marijuana edibles.
RECIPE: Simple Stoner Living Pudding Brownies
Ingredients:
1g edible cannabis extract (eg. Rick Simpson Oil)
6 tbsp butter (most of a stick)
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup flour
1 package chocolate pudding mix (3.4 oz size)
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)
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| Wet Ingredients with cannabis extract (RSO) added |
Instructions:
Heat oven to 350 F.
Grease a 9" x 9" pan with plenty of butter.
Begin your brownies by creaming your butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until well mixed. Take your cannabis extract and mix it in with these 'wet' ingredients.
Meanwhile, combine your dry ingredients in a separate bowl: flour, pudding mix, unsweetened cocoa and baking powder. Mix these dry ingredients together.
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| Dry Ingredients |
Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and stir well. If desired, fold in nuts at this point.
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| Dry Ingredients Mixed into the Wet Ingredients |
Smooth ingredients into your well greased pan. Bake at 350 F for 20-30 minutes. Brownies are done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Carefully cut brownies into pieces of even sizes. This is very important if you want to determine the THC content of your brownies. In our example, we cut our brownies into 36 squares.
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| Carefully cut the brownies into EVEN sized pieces. |
Now - we do a little simple math. Our cannabis extract has a label stating that it contains 657 mg THC. Because we made 36 brownies, we calculate that each brownie will have 18.25 mg THC.
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| It's Easy to Calculate the THC per Brownie! |
657 mg THC total divided by 36 brownies = 18.25 mg THC per brownie.
Be careful, as these are stronger than commercially available brownies! I like to wrap these brownies in plastic wrap, making little 4-packs. Each 4-pack has a total of 73 mg THC, which experience has taught me is an ideal dosage for me, personally. I wrap my 4-packs of brownies in foil and store them (carefully labeled) in the freezer.
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| Brownies wrapped for Storage |
Making your own brownies offers considerable savings over purchasing store bought edibles. One box of edibles with a total of 100 mg THC costs between $10-$30. This recipe made the equivalent of six boxes of cannabis edibles, for the cost of one unit of extract (~$20). It's like getting six brownies for the price of one!
If making your own brownies is too much effort, you can just add extract to a batch of brownie mix from the grocery store.
To calculate the potency of any type of edible made from a cannabis extract, cut your final product into evenly sized pieces; then divide the total amount of THC in your extract by your number of pieces. Extract is often sold in 1g sizes (1g = 1000 mg). Potency is often expressed as a percentage of THC, so if your extract is 65.7% THC, your 1g of extract has a total of 657 mg THC.
Please be safe and responsible with marijuana edibles - mark them clearly and keep them away from pets and children. Remember that the effects of eating cannabis can take several hours to fully manifest.
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