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There were very
good reasons in
the past to reduce a
lot of trim into butter,
but today’s baker has
more freedom to let their
imagination run wild without
greening anybody out.”
baking a fool
OF MYSELF
by Watermelon
Edibles have come a long way since the full legalization of cannabis in several states
as well as Canada. Watermelon looks back on a time when growers would infuse crazy
amounts of THC into their cookies, all in an effort to thwart the law.
Cannabis has become so mainstream now that the
time-honored tradition of hiding five pounds of ‘B’ grade
weed in two pounds of butter has grown obsolete. One can
practice subtler methods of prepping and storing their cannabis
in these epochal times. Low-dose infusions are much more
popular than the heroic doses of yesteryear.
The tradition of reducing and disguising cannabis in butter
came about as a clever way to camouflage lesser grades of
weed lying around after harvest. Try burning it, and you invite
all your neighbors into your business; try throwing it away in
garbage bags (careful not to leave fingerprints) and now you
are littering. Remember, the trim contains a lot of THC content
but it’s not so nice to smoke.
When cannabis was illegal nobody wanted to get arrested
with a bunch of garbage bags full of leaves and stems
because the cops would weigh up everything, good or bad,
and charge you with that amount. When I got busted for pot
cookies, they weighed up the whole tin of cookies (probably
the tin, too) and charged me with that weight. “She was
trafficking three pounds your honor,” makes one seem like
a way bigger dealer than “she was trafficking a dozen pot
cookies your honor.” You see why getting rid of stuff not worth
getting busted for in the first place was high priority for
growers, trimmers, and bakers... back in the day!
One day in the early 2000s, bubble bags came into existence
that made hash making quick and easy. The “hide/reduce
the trim” problem was solved overnight. Bubble bag hash
flooded the market and bakers now had to pay for shake
where it was once free.
I witnessed edibles back then that were super-high dose.
Probably because the butter was so potent, one tablespoon
could be 800mg or more. Nobody was being scientific; they
were following a recipe that called for half a cup of butter.
Potentially you could have a 2,400mg brownie on your hands
designed to serve eight people.
Making low-dose dishes, and using anything but butter is the
future of homemade edibles. There were very good reasons
in the past to reduce a lot of trim into butter, but today’s baker
has more freedom to let their imagination run wild without
greening anybody out.
WM
Watermelon is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who loves to tango, tell jokes, bake, get baked. You can find her Baking a Fool of Myself
videos on YouTube and her backstory at maximumyield.com.
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