If you're sitting in that location, waiting for your loftier 
and thinking, "Peradventure I didn't accept enough…" Finish.

50ast month, New York Times writer Maureen Dowd traveled to Colorado to investigate the state's new commerce in legal marijuana for recreational use. She wound up lying paralyzed in a hotel bed while locked in a psychological staring contest with the grim reaper (or at least someone in a very convincing grim reaper costume). The cause of Dowd's morbid paralysis: just a few nibbles of a marijuana-enhanced candy bar she'd gotten at a Denver dispensary, the surprising strength of which led to widespread discussion of the dangers of ingesting pot.

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These dangers are real. Yes, Maureen Dowd could've done more to investigate proper dosage, and yes, the clerks who supplied her with the multi-dose candy bar could've done much, much more to fairly serve the needs of their customer. But until the day comes when marijuana sellers take proper responsibility for the experiences of their customers*, and/or personal marijuana dosages are as ingrained as those of coffee and alcohol, how to enjoyably experience edible pot is something all users must figure out for themselves. Here are some tips.

Know What You're In For

Eating pot is very dissimilar than smoking it, with an edible loftier taking up to xc minutes to hit and lasting much longer than a smoking high. Edibles typically give three to four hours of peak stonedness, compared to an hour or ii from smoking. If you're looking for a quick-hitting high that's gone in a couple hours, stick with smoking.

Figure Out Your Dosage

In the past, getting a precise dose of edible pot was complicated, if not incommunicable. Previously, edible marijuana popularly took the form of pot brownies, in which the THC followed the butter, to be spread among the batch willy-nilly: One credibility might exist weak, some other could be stiff, and who knows the force of the pot that went into the butter in the first place? Simply thank you to advances made in the medical marijuana sector, getting a precise dosage of edible THC is at present totally doable.

Example in signal: medicated viscid bears, each one of which is infused with exactly 10 mg of THC and packaged in bags containing x or 25 bears. Thus are customers given precise buildings blocks to construct their preferred loftier.

Think of ten mg of THC (i.east., one medicated gummy bear) as i serving—say, a single shot of espresso. Some people like double espressos. Some like quadruple espressos. Some have the smallest sip of an espresso and stay upwards all night pooping. I tin can't tell you how to feel about this espresso metaphor, I but want you lot to empathize the math:

x mg THC = "one serving" (particularly for new users).

Nonetheless! Even within this precisely dosed globe, there are vast differences in feel. A friend of mine—a non–pot smoker—eats just the feet off a single gummy bear and goes somewhere sweet and happy and totally navigable. Some other friend, an occasional pot smoker, eats ii bears and does the same—merely the time she tried three bears, she crossed over into over-stonedness. A friend who is not a pot smoker impatiently ate five bears and spent an entire night having what she described as "rolling orgasms." The average pot smoker typically gets a good, stiff, memorable experience from iii to iv bears. Start with one and build up.

Be Patient

This cannot exist stressed enough, specially since "getting high" is not typically an endeavor associated with careful impulse control: Nothing will transport y'all toward the hell that swallowed Maureen Dowd faster than overdose-by-impatience. Any size of dose yous make up one's mind upon, it will take roughly one hr to hit. So if you're sitting there, waiting for your loftier and thinking, "Maybe I didn't take enough..." End. Make sure yous've waited a full 60 minutes earlier you even consider upping your dose. Set a timer. If yous forgot to set up a timer when you first ate your dose, start the full 60-minute countdown every bit soon as you remember. Not 50 minutes. Not 55 minutes. Non 59 minutes. Sixty fucking minutes. Don't permit impatience send you to a hell of your own stoned making.

Have Fun!

Beyond all the in a higher place warnings lies the fact that, in terms of ease of use and duration of effect, edible marijuana is a total dream, perfect for rock concerts, sporting events, cultural festivals, the movie theatre, high-school reunions, nature hikes, weddings, funerals, Bumbershoots, and any other place you want to be high for several hours direct without having to duck somewhere for a puff. (And if you're a parent, hide your medicated gummies like they were loaded guns—kids are designed by God to eat any candy they find anywhere.) recommended

* I'one thousand not talking about anything huge, just a pot-store equivalent of a food server saying, "Hot plate." It'south in a business's best interest to ship customers away happy, non psychotic and burnt, and hopefully marijuana capitalists will implement industry-broad standards ASAP.

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