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Cannabis Edible Dosage: How To Choose The Right Amount

2023-01-04T12:59:00.002-08:00

Cannabis edibles, or food and drink products that are infused with marijuana, have a long and storied history. The use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes dates back thousands of years, and people have been incorporating it into their diet in various ways for just as long.

One of the earliest known examples of cannabis edibles is the Indian dish bhang, which is made with ground cannabis leaves and seeds and is often consumed during religious festivals. Cannabis has also been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, and it was often taken in the form of tea or mixed into food.

In modern times, the production and consumption of cannabis edibles has become more sophisticated. With the legalization of marijuana in many states, commercial producers have begun to develop a wide variety of cannabis-infused products, including brownies, cookies, gummies, and more. These products are often preferred by those who want to consume marijuana but do not want to smoke it.

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Cannabis Infused Ribbon Candy!

2019-01-04T13:55:00.003-08:00

Why make cannabis edibles? Well cannabis edibles hold many benefits; they are a natural alternative to the pharmaceuticals that we use to treat pain, insomnia and even depression. Cannabis hard candy is extremely useful for people with throat and/or mouth disabilities as they are extremely easy to eat.While most dispensaries offer your run of the mill jolly rancher or lollipop clones, those type of cannabis hard candy can get old and boring rather quickly. They also tend to not be very "fun." Trust us when we tell you that when you make cannabis infused ribbon candy for your friends, they'll be in awe. You'll be able to enjoy more than the effects they provide, but also the happiness that comes from sharing something that took love and hard work to make.

Cannabis infused ribbon candy is started the way most cannabis hard candies are started, with a simple cannabis sugar syrup. However, instead of just putting the melted candy mixture into molds and letting it sit. These are tricky the first few times you make them. We will include some photos to help you first time candy pullers out there. So without further ado let's get to the recipe!

How To Make Cannabis Infused Ribbon Candy

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Cannabis Infused Lip Balm Recipe

2016-05-02T21:08:00.000-07:00

Why use a cannabis infused lip balm? Well unlike the rest of your skin, your lips don't secrete sebum. Which happens to be the natural way our bodies balance moisture on our skin's surface. If your lips are severely chapped or if you are you are looking for a way to prevent your lips from becoming chapped, then lip balm is the answer. When you put on lip balm, you need to be absolutely sure it contains the safest and most beneficial ingredients possible. The best way to make sure that your lips are going to be soft and safe is to make the lip balm yourself!

When you purchase lip balm at the store you expose yourself to harsh cancer-causing petrochemicals. Some of the more common and dangerous ingredients are: alcohol, silicon dioxide, artificial skin softeners, and other manufactured chemicals. You should avoid products that contain artificial colors and flavors at all costs. Real fruit and floral extracts are superior providers of flavor and color. Remember, purity and quality are your most important factors in choosing all health products, lip balm is no exception.

This cannabis infused lip balm will not only leave your lips feeling soft, but it will also relieve any pain you have from chapped lips. You have the ability to use 100% safe, all natural, organic ingredients. You can choose additives that you want specifically for your lips. If you have any scars, then adding something like vitamin-E oil will help to reduce those scars over time. Vitamin-E oil also reduces wrinkles keeping your lips soft. Adding some eucalyptus oil will help to fight mental fatigue and it's also antibacterial, and antiviral. Eucalyptus has been used for flu, fever sore throats as well as skin and muscle pain. Combined with marijuana this lip balm is better for you than anything you can buy at the store and will totally eliminate lip pain.

This cannabis infused lip balm recipe couldn't be easier. It uses our recipe for Coconut CannaOil, so make sure you make a batch of that first. Using this medicated lip balm daily will save you money, protect your lips, and give you peace of mind.

Cannabis Infused Lip Balm

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The Best Hybrid Vaporizer Review Of 2016 | Flowermate V5.0S Mini Pro

2016-05-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

Vaping has taken the nation by storm. We are going to review the best hybrid vaporizer of 2016. Did you know that vaping shops and lounges exist? These shops equal about one-third of the whole vape industry. There are already more than 3,500 vape shops across the nation. (Source) The reason most people switch from cigarettes to vapor cigarettes is the fact that they think the e-liquid or "juice" is a healthier form of ingesting their nicotine than directly burning reconstituted tobacco. Once someone has started to vape, the allure of the unending variety of flavors keeps them enjoying their hobby day after day.

For those who enjoy both nicotine and marijuana there exists what is known as a "hybrid vaporizer."
The hybrid vape pen will be a device that allows you to vape juice and concentrates, as well as dry herb. We have done a few vape reviews here on the 420 shack, and there exists a ton of hybrid vaporizer reviews on the net. The one main problem that all these hybrid vaporizer reviews agree on is that after sometime the ceramic heating chamber gets too dirty and the effectiveness of their portable hybrid vape pen wears off.

The Flowermate V5.0S Mini Pro is the hybrid vape we will be reviewing today. This vape has current industry standards when it comes to it's base technology but it has a few special characteristics that set it above the rest of the vapes I've tried this year.

Flowermate Hybrid Vaporizer Review

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Marijuana filled tampons!?

2016-04-15T14:04:00.000-07:00

This may seem rather strange, but according to Whoopi Goldberg, medical marijuana is the reigning winner when it comes to remedies that battle menstrual cramp pain. Goldberg partnered with Maya Elisabeth, the founder of Om Edibles, which happens to be an all-female medical marijuana dispensary.

Together, they worked for over a year and half, combining medical marijuana with other superfoods, and natural healing herbs. The end result of their efforts came to be a product line of medical marijuana infusions, called "Whoopi & Maya Pain & Menstrual Relief" The product line includes a tincture, a bath soak, body balm, and some raw cacao powder. Goldberg says her products won't get you "High high" that they are made with higher amounts of CBD than THC, as the focus of these products are to relieve pain, not get you high while you are at work.

Her line of products is available for purchase now, however only to CA residents who have a medical marijuana card. Though she intends to research further, at the time of this writing Whoopi and Maya do not have a cannabis tampon.

Looking to fill a hole in the market where companies like "Whoopi and Maya" fail to deliver, FORIA Relief has been hard at work "crafting a delivery system intended to maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis." In other words, their intention is to create a weed tampon. Foria says they want to "standardize purity and potency, thereby ensuring a safe and accessible experience for all women."

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The Ultimate QWISO Shatter Hash Recipe

2016-04-11T13:30:00.003-07:00

This is the hash tutorial where we show you how to make some of the cleanest and strongest shatter you can make, without the need for expensive vacuum purging systems. All you need is some household cooking utensils, this hash recipe, and some marijuana, and you can make shatter that will rival what you can find at the cannabis cup and destroy whatever your local dispensary has in stock.

Hash comes in lots of forms, and we have a tutorial for ICE HASH you might like as well. Shatter is a unique kind of marijuana concentrate, as it solidifies enough to be pliable, and you can work with it with your hands, but it doesn't melt enough to drip off your dabber at room temperature. Shatter is normally the cleanest and purest form of a cannabis concentrate and when all the solvents have been purged out you are left with a translucent piece of hash that can be broken into tiny pieces for easier dabbing.

A lot of people have made shatter by using butane as a solvent. Remember, not only is using butane as a solvent dangerous, and in fact can be deadly, it is also illegal and you risk jail time even if you are a medical marijuana card holder. This recipe uses ISO alcohol that you can find at any drug store, and this recipe is perfectly legal for medical marijuana card holders. QWISO stands for quick wash ISO.
So if you are looking for a cleaner way to smoke, or you just enjoy dabbing, then read ahead and see how easy it is to make QWISO shatter!

Step-by-Step Qwiso Shatter Hash Recipe

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Cannabis Infused Coffee Recipe

2016-04-06T17:35:00.000-07:00

Every stoner or medical marijuana consumer out there knows there’s nothing better than a perfectly brewed cup of coffee first thing in the morning to go with your wake and bake toke session.What if there existed a world in which you could combine the two, and have a wonderful cop of coffee that also got you stoned? Even better what if it was a vegan cannabis infused coffee? Well we are here to give you a marijuana coffee infusion recipe that Starbucks could only dream of having.

The most ideal cup of coffee is one that is crafted to absolute perfection, a pursuit that takes both determination and precision. While you can go all out barista by taking the time to measure your water on a scale and use a stopwatch to clock your brew times, we are going to do this a little easier. So for this recipe, you’ll want to cold press the coffee you’ll be using. Cold Pressing coffee decreases the acidity levels of your coffee by 3/4 and contains less caffeine than a normal cup. Upon consumption, cold pressed coffee will give your digestive system a break, and help keep your PH levels in balance.

Making a weed coffee drink with the cold press will give the cannabis infused coffee a very strong coffee flavor, as it concentrates the flavor elements of the coffee. This will help to mask the plant flavor from the marijuana, and provide a smooth, sweet flavor that you’ll enjoy. We use a Hawaiian Kona light roast vanilla macadamia nut coffee, and it's cold brew concentrate counterpart. Kona coffee only comes from Hawaii and is one of the best tasting coffees in the world. You can use whatever coffee you like, however the end result with our full recipe is a warm, nutty, sweet, organic coffee, with subtle hints of vanilla and cannabis. The aftertaste will leave a distinct light vanilla coffee flavor. This is a cannabis infused coffee drink you owe it to yourself to try if you consider yourself any type of coffee drinker.Any kind of stoner will enjoy this as well.

This cannabis infused coffee recipe is vegan, gluten, and dairy free. This cannabis infused coffee recipe uses The 420 Shacks recipe for Vegan Coconut CannaOil. You can adjust the CannaOil recipe to the desired amount of THC, and then adjust this coffee drink recipe accordingly for dosage. Following our exact recipes will get you about 3-4 cups of coffee with each cup containing 10-15mg.

If you are looking for something special to drink your cannabis infused coffee out of, then check out this mug that you can smoke out of while you drink!

Vegan Cannabis Infused Coffee

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Healthy Hash Gummy Bears Recipe -Warning: Incredibly Potent-

2016-04-04T13:39:00.001-07:00

This is a Non-Vegan, Organic, Dairy, Nut, Gluten and Fat Free recipe. This recipe will make around 63 gummy bears with about 110mg of THC per gummy bear. The THC content in these gummies is quite a lot. The average pack of gummies you can buy from a dispensary will contain roughly 10mg per gummy bear. These packs normally come with 10-15 weed gummies. This recipe will make each individual gummy a single dose. If you are the kind of person who wants to binge eat these hash infused gummies, lower the amount of hash you use.

As usual, this will be a quick and easy tutorial. These hash gummies will be better for you than a bag of Haribo, but they are still candy, and use gelatin and sugar. If you have never made or tasted fresh squeezed juice gummies before, let me be the first to tell you that the taste is overwhelmingly sensational. When the hash gummy hits your tongue you will instantly taste a tart, almost sour apple flavor. The tart apple flavor is complimented by a subtle sweetness from the coconut sugar that allows your taste buds to savor the natural sour apple juice. I cannot put into words how delicious these hash gummies are. You can use this recipe without the hash as well for just awesome healthy gummy candy.

Healthy Hash Gummy Bears Recipe

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Guide to every weed subscription box service with prices and info

2016-03-30T23:29:00.002-07:00

Every smoker, old or new, loves to test out new products designed to make their smoke sessions easier and more enjoyable. Marijuana subscription box services aim to fill that inherent desire, and for a one time or monthly fee, you can simply wait at home for a box to be delivered to your door filled with cannabis related items.

We have compiled a list of every current cannabis subscription box service we could find. This list includes boxes that have actual medical marijuana in them, as well boxes with CBD oils. Most boxes however are perfectly legal in all 50 states, and 98% of this list contain weed subscription boxes that are just cannabis smoking accessories.

All prices, and services will be laid out so this post will serve as your one stop shop guide to picking out the right marijuana subscription box that fits your smoking lifestyle, from cannabis activist, to first time toker, there is a subscription that fits into all marijuana lifestyles.

At the end of the post I will leave amazon links to the most common items found in these boxes. Most of these vendors give you a lot of paper products, or other small novelty items such as stickers, and snacks. Some do give you glass pieces.

Weed Subscription Box Services

GreenBakeBox
$30 w/ free shipping
10-15 items

These guys skimp hard on their contents. Majority is paper and dollar snacks. They normally include 1 chinese or indian wholesale glass piece as well. Sometimes it's a chinese or indian knockoff grinder or torch lighter.

Final verdict: Better ones out there, move on.

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Cannabis Science Documentary - How Weed Cures Cancer

2014-07-05T15:50:00.001-07:00

THC is promoted to relieve pain, control nausea and vomiting, and increase appetite in people with cancer or aids. THC also decreases pressure within the eyes, which reduces the severity of glaucoma.

Some researchers claim that marijuana has anti-bacterial properties, inhibits tumor growth, and enlarges the airways, which they believe can ease the severity of asthma attacks. Others claim that marijuana can be used to control seizures and muscle spasms in people who have epilepsy and spinal cord injuries.

In April of 2009, a team of biochemists at the School of Biology at Complutense University in Madrid investigated the use of cannabinoids in treating cancer. Although similar investigations have been conducted on lab rats and tissue cultures many times since the original 1974 study in Virginia, this time the researchers used actual cancer patients and analyzed their results with methods used to gauge the progress of chemotherapy treatments. Their findings were published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and are available free online.

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Cannabinol Secrets: The Cure For Insomnia And MRSA?

2013-12-10T13:54:00.000-08:00

Insomniacs everywhere can rejoice! Although already widely known in the medical marijuana community, cannabis has been used as a sleep-aid for many people who suffer from insomnia. What most people don't know, is the science behind why it helps.

Cannabis contains over 80 different cannabinoids. Most of you will be familiar with the abbreviation "THC" otherwise known as tetrahydrocannabinol. With the introduction of medical marijuana testing labs, in-depth studies have begun to learn the individual properties behind each cannabinoid.

Cannabinol, or CBN, is the cannabinoid responsible for causing the sedative effects that aid the onset of sleep. You might be surprised to learn that cannabinol is actually a product of degradation. When THC is exposed to oxygen over time, it begins to degrade and lose it's psychoactive properties, it transforms into CBN and gains incredible almost tranquilising effects.

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Cannabis Infused Chocolate Peppermint Eggnog Recipe

2013-12-08T19:58:00.000-08:00

It's December, so for most of us that means bundling up warm and enjoying time with the people we care about and indulging in some holiday treats. Eggnog is one of those seasonal drinks that just seems to spice up those boring evenings at home, complimenting a roaring fire and friendly conversation like no other holiday drink. Even though we are going to show you how to infuse your eggnog with cannabis, you can still include your favorite spirit, whether it be rum, bourbon, or brandy.

There are multiple parts to this recipe, and it can become quite intensive. Don't let that get you down. This recipe is worth every bit of love you have to put into it. If you know someone who uses medical marijuana, then let this drink be the highlight of their holiday.

Cannabis Infused Chocolate Peppermint Eggnog

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How To Make Organic Vegan Coconut CannaOil

2013-12-07T18:42:00.001-08:00

The health benefits of Organic Vegan Coconut CannaOil are practically endless. Coconut oil contains antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-fungal, and antibacterial qualities thanks to lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid. These acids help to provide relief from all sorts of debilitating illnesses like diabetes, HIV, cancer, some heart diseases, and kidney problems. Coconut oil helps to improve dental quality and bone strength, skin and hair appearance, it boosts stress relief and immune response, regulates cholesterol, and aides proper digestion. To see a wonderful list of the health benefits of coconut, check out http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/.

Organic virgin coconut oil is derived from coconut milk obtained from fresh coconut meat, by processes like fermentation, centrifugal separation and enzyme action. Little heat or no heat is used to extract the coconut oil. When coconut oil is produced in this fashion it smells and tastes the best.
This variety of coconut oils is one of the most trusted. It's also booming with antioxidants.

More than 90% of coconut oil consists of saturated fat. This is perfect for making edibles, because THC is fat soluable. The more fat we have, the more THC we can contain. Commercial butter is normally anywhere from 75-82% saturated fat. So theoretically, coconut cannaoil would be stronger than cannabutter made with the same amount of marijuana, as coconut oil will absorb more THC.

How To Make Organic Vegan Coconut CannaOil

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The Best Way To Buy Marijuana Seeds With Bitcoin

2013-12-05T18:08:00.003-08:00

Bitcoin. The worlds first de-centralised crypto currency. This may sound like a mouth full, but in actuality it's a very easy concept to understand. Bitcoin, is an electronic form of cash that works on a peer-to-peer system. Online payments can be passed from one individual to another without dealing with any financial institutions. A digital signature protects your currency, while the network timestamps all transactions. It does this by hashing them into a perpetual chain of hash-based proof-of-work, thus becoming a record that can't be changed without redoing the proof-of-work.

What does this mean for you? Well, you have access to a new form of currency, that is not in direct control by any entity. You can send and recieve bitcoin anonymously, and you can generate multiple bitcoin addresses. In order to start you need to install a wallet on your computer or a mobile device. This will generate your first bitcoin address. Once you have your wallet, you need to get some coins. One of the Fastest way to get coins is to use CoinBase, which is an international digital wallet that allows you to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoins.

So now that you understand bitcoin, and you have a wallet installed, and you have some coins, let's get to the good stuff. Spending your bitcoins on your hobby.Full article after the jump...

Denver: Legally Smoking In Your Front Yard

2013-12-03T17:02:00.000-08:00

As you know, the state of Colorado has allowed the legalization of marijuana. This is an event which requires new legislature to come into play. On Monday, the Denver City Council entered a new bill on marijuana which allowed for residents to smoke in their front yards without fear of consequences.

On November 12th, Both the Mayor Michael Hancock and Councilman Chris Nevitt drafted a bill that could have placed strangling limitations on the act of smoking cannabis outdoors, even on private property.

Yet two weeks later, The City Council held a hearing that invited public opinion. Half the council was split on if they should allow residents to smoke freely on their front lawns. Some Council members really wanted to restrict this right.

"I don't want to see a bunch of pot parties on front yards." -Councilwoman Jeanne Robb
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How To Handle Cannabis Predators and Pests

2013-12-03T11:22:00.002-08:00

If you are growing outdoors, or indoors, you will have to combat pests or predators at some point during your grow. It does happen that sometimes the bugs win. No matter how much you might spray them or try to kill them, they keep coming back to your grow.

Mites and other small pests can lay their eggs in cuttings and these can be missed when you look for pests because they are not obvious. Pesticides should kill them, but some pests like the powder bugs lay their eggs inside the stems and seem to always come back. If you can't get rid of bugs like this then you may have to toss your genetics away and get new ones. For breeders this can be a daunting task. A long term project can be terminated by a few bugs wreaking havoc in the grow room. Breeders should pay strict attention to keeping their grow rooms clean at all times.

Outdoor growers, should pay especially close attention to keeping fences, and mesh flooring up at all times. Outdoor grows have to combat not only bugs, but animals as well.

Today we are going to teach you how to effectively eliminate all of your pest problems.

Marijuana Predators and Pests

Groundhogs and Woodchucks -- Their presence and intentions can spell disaster for your garden. Woodchucks will nibble your stems and collapse the plant. The way to solve this is by using predator urine or by building a mesh fence around the bottom of your outdoor plants. This will keep the chucks from eating your stems and branches. Use more than one rap of mesh and make sure that you keep it tight. Also planting Marigolds near your grow will also help keep the chucks away. Epsom salts can be sprinkled on the vegetation and fruits of your garden plants to render them foul-tasting to groundhogs. You can also drop rodent gas bombs in their burrows.

Rabbits -- Rabbits can reduce a marijuana crop to nothing in a couple of days and will continue to feed from the same garden until they are stopped or the garden is destroyed. Predator urine and small fences work wonders to deter rabbits from eating your crop. Shake-Away Small Critter Repellant Works great as it is made from Fox urine.

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The Most Advanced Vape Pen Ever: The Grasshopper

2013-12-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

"Grasshopper is built to be part of your life. Whether you're climbing a mountain, sitting at a cafe, or just lounging around the house, Grasshopper will always provide a durable and ergonomic design making it perfect for just about everyone.

We worked hard to create a device that was simple, powerful and rugged. These attributes are at the very core of Grasshopper, and are the key to unlocking your freedom to roam." -Grasshopper Team

With vaporizer pens currently dominating the cannabis culture, it was only a matter of time before a startup took the idea of building the best vape pen, and ssuccessfullyaccomplished that. The guys over at http://grasshoppervape.com are not your typical stoner stereotypes. They are hard working, diligent guys, with aerospace engineering degrees, who happen to think the current market is over saturated with inferior products. Check out their Indiegogo video, let your mind be blown by the revolutionary concepts behind the newest and best way to get medicated.

The Grasshopper Vape Pen

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The Simplest Way To Make Marijuana Seeds

2013-11-29T11:51:00.002-08:00

You may want to produce seeds from your crop to continue a cannabis strain that you obtained. By breeding two plants together you can produce seeds. How easy is it to make seeds? Well it's extremely easy provided your plants are healthy and you have a stable growing environment. When your male plants pollen sacks burst, they will pollinate all of your female flowers. At the end of your flowering cycle, the buds will contain seeds.

Pollen which is needed to pollinate the females, can be collected and stored. Pollen lasts for about a month, but can last longer if kept in the freezer.

Assuming you are breeding to continue a custom strain, you should know that you will not completely replicate the plants genes again unless they are IBL (an Inbred Line.) You will generate seeds however, that contain most of the parents’ genetic traits, but there will always be some variance in characteristics such as potency, taste, smell, color, and terpene profiles.

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Kief, keef, Kif, and Keif: The Dry Ice Hash Tutorial

2013-05-26T16:02:00.000-07:00

Kief, keef, Kif, and Keif: The Dry Ice Hash Tutorial

Today, we are going to go over a recipe so simple you will wonder why you've been purchasing your concentrates, or throwing away your trim. You are probably used to your grinder catching all the trichs the marijuana drops as you grind away at it. This gold powder is what we call "Keef."

Depending on your locality you may spell it a number of ways. No matter how you spell it though, keef is an extract. The same as ice hash, bubble hash, wax, bho, shatter, etc. When making concentrates, we want to eliminate all of the green plant material, but save only the parts that get us medicated. The THC. This tutorial will guide you step by step through the process of making your own dry ice hash.

What you will need

- bubble bags
- 5 gallon bucket
- lid to the bucket
- dry ice
- plastic scraper
- container
- gloves

Tutorial on how to make dry ice hash

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The Cannabutter Secret: Potency And Flavor

2013-05-25T19:28:00.000-07:00

The Cannabutter Secrets to Potency And Flavor

If you have been smoking for a while, you undoubtedly have found your regular dosing method.
While everyone's ailments are different, and require different applications of meds, everyone can benefit from less smoke in the lungs. Let's face it, there will always be some inhalation of small amounts of carcinogens from smoking. As we turn to alternative practices to help cope with our symptoms, we need to lessen the toxins we allow into our bodies.

Edibles allow us to mitigate those nasty carcinogens. Cannabutter is a great base for whatever recipe you can think of that uses butter.

Here are the questions that every person faces as they stare into an empty bowl, next to a bunch of ingredients they are unsure about, and the small bag of medication that they need. "How much marijuana do I use?" "Is this wasting the cannabis?" "Are they sure this really works?" "How do I make a tiny batch of edibles to test?"

Let me stop your trailing mind right there, stop worrying, everything will be okay.

So here is the scientific explanation behind "smoking weed vs eating it:"

As you can see from the chart, the THC reacts differently in your body, but nothing gets wasted, the effects are changed from a "quality of high", to a "length of high." Since there is less of a drop, edibles provide a smoother, longer, more relaxing high, without that "burnt come-down feeling," that many complain of that comes with smoking marijuana. Since there is no smoking, this is a much safer way of taking your medication.

Most people, in not understanding the chart, don't use the correct amount of medication in the butter preparation. Well the 420 shack is here today, to help guide you and hopefully get you into a better frame of mind.

This is not a picture "how to" as you will not need pictures. Every item you will need, except your own medication, is linked to multiple times in the tutorial. Follow the guide step by step and even if you are the kind of person who normally burns popcorn in the microwave, you'll be able to make cannabutter like a pro.

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How to Treat Cannabis Root Rot

2012-11-22T21:41:00.003-08:00

Hydroponics solutions need to be changed regularly.

What is root rot?

Root rot is when your marijuana plant's roots start to die. As they die they turn from white to brown, they also start to break apart and give off a pungent aroma.

Root rot normally comes from a couple of sources, one is a prolonged exposure to over watered conditions. As the roots rot away, the rot can then spread to healthier roots and kill those also, even if the soil conditions are corrected.

Another source of marijuana root rot can come from fungus in the soil. Fungus can lay dormant in soil indefinitely, which can have harmful effects on your marijuana plants. Over watering one or two times can be enough for the fungus to flourish and begin attacking the roots.

What does root rot look like?

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Colorado and Washington, The Uphill Battle After Legalization

2012-11-10T16:04:00.000-08:00

Over 20 million people in America have been arrested since 1965 for marijuana offenses. In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states in history to repeal marijuana prohibition. This comes as a stark blow to the federal governments "War on Drugs." Especially seeing as Washington has officially dropped marijuana from it's D.A.R.E program, which teaches kids about the harms of drugs and alcohol.

“The passage of these measures strikes a significant blow to federal cannabis prohibition. Like alcohol prohibition before it, marijuana prohibition is a failed federal policy that delegates the burden of enforcement to the state and local police. Alcohol prohibition fell when a sufficient number of states enacted legislation repealing the state’s alcohol prohibition laws. With state police and prosecutors no longer engaging in the federal government’s bidding to enforce an unpopular law, the federal government had little choice but to abandon the policy altogether. Today, history begins to repeat itself.” -NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano

In Colorado, Amendment 64, allows for the legal possession of up to an ounce and the cultivation of up to six cannabis plants by anyone 21 and up. In Washington, I-502, regulates the production and sale of limited amounts of marijuana for adults. The measure also removes criminal penalties specific to the adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana.

Cannabis, though now legal in these two states, and legal for medical use in multiple other states, is still federally illegal. The fact that all the laws only allow for small possessions of marijuana and limited cultivation means that people are still set up to fall. If the medical marijuana industry in California has taught us anything, it's taught us that the federal government does not keep their promises to allow the states to operate according to their laws.
In 2009 The Obama administration's drug czar , Gil Kerlikowski said he wanted to remove the idea that the U.S. was fighting a war on drugs. Even Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that came out with the release of new policy guidelines, "It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana." and yet in 2011, 45 dispensaries operating legally in California were ordered to shut down.

"Under United States law, a dispensary's operations involving sales and distribution of marijuana are illegal and subject to criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions, real and personal property involved in such operations are subject to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States ... regardless of the purported purpose of the dispensary." - Read the letters signed by U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in San Diego.

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Happy Valentines Day

2012-02-14T12:01:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day!

Make sure to spread the love today, and take care of that "Special Someone" in your life.

Everyone deserves some "flowers" today. ;]

Don't forget to check out http://regulatemarijuanalikewine.com/ and like it on facebook!

It's time for some positive change!

California Wants To Regulate Marijuana Like Wine

2012-02-10T15:47:00.000-08:00

For anyone living in California, this information is extremely pertinent. After years of fighting an uphill battle, 2011 marked a significant change for the course of medical marijuana. California failed to pass a legalization bill by less than 5%. It's time to stop procrastinating, and time to start caring about your future as a medical marijuana user, or as a normal citizen who wants to use marijuana for your own personal benefit. 2012 witnessed the birth of new California legislature. Without further ado, I present the shortened version of the initiative.

REGULATE MARIJUANA LIKE WINE

(http://regulatemarijuanalikewine.com/)

This California Voter Initiative for 2012 intends to:

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U.S. Government Patent Proves Marijuana Is Medicinal

2011-12-22T11:41:00.000-08:00

"Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" Is the title of the patent. Filed in February of 2001 with a PCT pub. date of October 28, 1999, this patent proves without a shadow of a doubt that our government recognizes marijuana as having extremely beneficial medicinal properties. It's a terrible travesty that, although the government has been holding onto a patent that shows marijuana is useful in a wide range of neuroprotectant applications, they have continued to persecute and incarcerate thousands of citizens, bringing shame and loss to countless families across our nation.

"Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention." -Quoted text is the patent definition.

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