Yesterday my middle daughter arrived here from Kansas. This is a piece of information that seems trivial, but marked a big day in my life. Oh, she has been here before and I am always happy to see her, as I am all my offspring. But yesterday was special in more ways than one. I had lunch with Michael McQuire and Teresa Cordova from church. Michael and Jimmy, his partner, gave me a homemade fruit cake with lots of frosting and pistachios, which I love. Thank you boys for a special gift. Then I hurried home as I had a plan for the afternoon. First I called to see where Dona was in her journey, and then I planned her surprise!
As you know, Colorado is home of the free and the brave, as is every state in our union. It is also legal for marijuana! Now, I have never tried marijuana as a recreational drug, but I do make a pain cream out of the leftovers furnished to me by a dear friend in Canon City. Some how he extracts the hallucinogenic properties and he is left with something that looks like a bunch of dried up leaves pressed into a block. I then take that, cook it and turn it into a pain cream that will put your sciatic into a deep sleep almost instantly. Very good stuff. It contains none of the hallucinagenic of marijuana and I have many people who swear by it, me included! But that is beside the point.
I know my friend, Shirley, used "gummies" to help her sleep, so I know pot has properties that are beneficial. I have heard of marijuana brownies and how the high is different so I have been researching that aspect. YouTube is full of information, so Saturday I made "cannabutter." (I should interject here that a friend of mine had provided me with a big bag of weed a month or so ago. His instructions to me were to turn it into something that could then be turned into cash. I told him I could not use it in my pain cream so we agreed that edibles was the way to go.) Thus began my venture into the world of marijuana edibles!
First another friend showed me how to remove the "buds", grind them into something I forget the name of and then take the "trash" that was left and use it for my pain cream. Every part of the plant is used for something. So I put the pain cream stuff aside and proceeded with baking with the "canna butter" when I got home from church. First I made chocolate cookies. Then I made chocolate cake bars. I left the bars in the oven a little too long so they came out harder then I would have liked. I will do those different next time.
So the unsuspecting daughter was met at the door with a cookie. At 4:20 (which in itself is symbolic) she ate one half of a 2 inch cookie. The following is the observation of subject:
1. It tasted like "weed", but that is not a bad thing because it IS weed.
2. At 4:50, she felt giggly.
3. At 5:00 she was "stoned". It was a very good "stoned", whatever that meant!
4. She remained in the euphoric condition of "mellow" until she returned to her normal state at 7:20.
Now it should be noted, that during that time frame, she and I visited in our usual way. So, I think I can safely say that this experiment was a success! I think my cookies will be useful. I do need to work on the preparation of the product, but that will come with time.
So all you people out there who think I am just your usual run of the mill grandma, please keep in mind that I still am. I approve of marijuana for its medicinal properties, but I do not use it. If you want to use it, I am here to help you enjoy it in a safe way and in the comfort of your own home. I am not quite ready to take this to market, but I can see how that can happen. It may be that this is as far as I go with it, but who knows.
In the meantime, I will put my baked goods in the freezer and when the time is right, I will proceed.
Or not.
As you know, Colorado is home of the free and the brave, as is every state in our union. It is also legal for marijuana! Now, I have never tried marijuana as a recreational drug, but I do make a pain cream out of the leftovers furnished to me by a dear friend in Canon City. Some how he extracts the hallucinogenic properties and he is left with something that looks like a bunch of dried up leaves pressed into a block. I then take that, cook it and turn it into a pain cream that will put your sciatic into a deep sleep almost instantly. Very good stuff. It contains none of the hallucinagenic of marijuana and I have many people who swear by it, me included! But that is beside the point.
I know my friend, Shirley, used "gummies" to help her sleep, so I know pot has properties that are beneficial. I have heard of marijuana brownies and how the high is different so I have been researching that aspect. YouTube is full of information, so Saturday I made "cannabutter." (I should interject here that a friend of mine had provided me with a big bag of weed a month or so ago. His instructions to me were to turn it into something that could then be turned into cash. I told him I could not use it in my pain cream so we agreed that edibles was the way to go.) Thus began my venture into the world of marijuana edibles!
First another friend showed me how to remove the "buds", grind them into something I forget the name of and then take the "trash" that was left and use it for my pain cream. Every part of the plant is used for something. So I put the pain cream stuff aside and proceeded with baking with the "canna butter" when I got home from church. First I made chocolate cookies. Then I made chocolate cake bars. I left the bars in the oven a little too long so they came out harder then I would have liked. I will do those different next time.
So the unsuspecting daughter was met at the door with a cookie. At 4:20 (which in itself is symbolic) she ate one half of a 2 inch cookie. The following is the observation of subject:
1. It tasted like "weed", but that is not a bad thing because it IS weed.
2. At 4:50, she felt giggly.
3. At 5:00 she was "stoned". It was a very good "stoned", whatever that meant!
4. She remained in the euphoric condition of "mellow" until she returned to her normal state at 7:20.
Now it should be noted, that during that time frame, she and I visited in our usual way. So, I think I can safely say that this experiment was a success! I think my cookies will be useful. I do need to work on the preparation of the product, but that will come with time.
So all you people out there who think I am just your usual run of the mill grandma, please keep in mind that I still am. I approve of marijuana for its medicinal properties, but I do not use it. If you want to use it, I am here to help you enjoy it in a safe way and in the comfort of your own home. I am not quite ready to take this to market, but I can see how that can happen. It may be that this is as far as I go with it, but who knows.
In the meantime, I will put my baked goods in the freezer and when the time is right, I will proceed.
Or not.
