9 Easy Steps to Make Weed Brownies

With Marijuana becoming legal, products like edibles and THC concentrates will continue to grow in popularity. My guess is that people will use the stores to buy these products, as the weed will be just as good and cheaper on the streets.

Concentrates are difficult and even dangerous to make at home so I suggest avoiding any home made expirmenting. Edibles however, are an extremely easy and safe home project!
With Marijuana becoming legal, products like edibles and THC concentrates will continue to grow in popularity. My guess is that people will use the stores to buy these products, as the weed will be just as good and cheaper on the streets.

Concentrates are difficult and even dangerous to make at home so I suggest avoiding any home made expirmenting. Edibles however, are an extremely easy and safe home project! Edibles can really mess you up if you are not careful. If you are not expierenced, try just eating a small piece every 30 minutes.

There are many different ways of making your own edibles and I am excited to share my experience with you guys.

What you need:
Crock pot
1 Stick of butter per 7 grams of marijuana
1 box of brownie mix
1 pack cheese cloth
Rubber gloves
Plastic Tupperware

Depending on how strong you want your brownies, you can use less marijuana. Typically I use an ounce and 4 sticks of butter in my recipe to make an entire batch of strong brownies.

Step 1

Put crockpot on 'low' setting and allow sticks of butter to melt

Step 2

While waiting for your butter to melt, grind up your weed and throw it on a cookie tray. Pop it in the oven and allow your weed to 'decarb'. Set the oven at about 300 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15 mins.

The decarb process is vital if you want good brownies!

Learn more about why we decarb: https://herb.co/marijuana/news/decarboxylate-your-weed-for-the-full-psychoactive-effect

Step 3

When the butter is melted, add the weed directly to the crockpot. Add about a half a cup of water to the mixture. This will help when you seperate the butter later.

Step 4

Leave on low, stirring occasionally for the next 10-12 hours. Takes a while but it is important to let the butter absorb as much of the THC as possible.

Step 5

You might need the help of a friend to complete this step. Pour the marijuana mixture over the cheese cloth to strain out all plant material. Be careful as the liquid will be hot (use rubber gloves). Squeeze out all remaining liquid into your plastic Tupperware and dispose of plant material. If you try to dry it out and smoke it, you really need some help!

Step 6

Place Tupperware into fridge and allow a butter to form. This process can take anywhere from 5-8 hours.

Step 7

Remove Tupperware and remove butter and allow it to soften

Step 8

Follow instructions on brownie box from here, just use your butter anytime the recipe calls for butter or oil. This butter will work great with any baking product. Go crazy with cookies, muffins or banana bread!

Even submit your recipe to our site for a feature!

Step 9

Enjoy!

Opinions and Opposition Week 3: When In Texas

Hello, Regulated Weed Culture Readers! If you’re in college I hope you’re enjoying Spring Break, and if you aren’t then I hope you aren’t stuck in the snow! For my spring break, I got the change to spend 5 days in Houston, Texas and for the week’s blog on “Opinions and Opposition” I wanted to talk about the Regulated Weed Culture of Texas and what the people I spoke too thought of it.

First, it was very interesting to learn that in Texas, the use of medical marijuana has been lawful since 2015. This treatment, however, is only meant for those with epilepsy. The first dispensaries, however, didn’t open until January of this year. It may be just based on stereotypes but I didn’t think Texas would be like that.

After learning this information, I was curious about what the rest of the state and the Governor of Texas thought of the issue. As it turns out many people in Texas take it medically even though it is against the law. When I was visiting my friend in Texas he told me about a co-worker he has that had to use it on a sibling for medical reasons, and that the sibling and parents had moved to Colorado because of it.

When I researched Governor Greg Abbotts view on the issue he seemed to be like many other politicians who believe that Marijuana is a gateway drug that should never be used. This seems to be a running trend with politicians who don’t believe in legalizing marijuana.

What do you think? Do you know anyone from Texas or a surrounding state with a similar story?

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MA Laws on Marijuana

Greetings folks, for those in the New England or Greater Boston Area I hope you're snowed in comfortably and safely! Perhaps you may be laid back, relaxing, and smoking something nice! But have you ever wondered what the laws are pertaining to the thing you're smoking, if so this post is for you. 

Massachusetts Laws and Penalties:

Possession for Personal Use

An adult may have up to one ounce of marijuana; up to 5 grams of marijuana may be marijuana concentrate. Within a primary residence, adults may have up to 10 ounces of marijuana and any marijuana produced by marijuana plants cultivated on the premises.

Possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana is punishable by a fine of $500 and/or imprisonment of up to 6 months. However, first offenders act will be placed on probation. Subsequent offenses may result in a fine of $2000 and/or imprisonment of up to 2 years. 

Possession with Intent to Distribute

First offenders, possessing less than 50 pounds of marijuana with the intent to manufacture, distribute, dispense or cultivate is punishable by a fine of $500-$5,000 and/or imprisonment of up to 2 years. 

Subsequent offenses are punishable by a fine of $1,000-$10,000 and/or imprisonment of 1-2.5 years.

Cultivation

Adults may grow 6 marijuana plants at their residence with a limit of a total of 12 plants at the residence.

An adult may not grow marijuana plants where the plants "are visible from a public place." A violation of this section is punishable as a civil offense with a penalty not to exceed $300 and forfeiture of the marijuana.

There you have some basic information on some of the penalties and fines for certain actions. If one wants to learn more about this, visit the link above which is where all of my information was obtained from. It is important for people to have knowledge on the substance their consuming therefore I hope this post was indeed helpful! 

Any "Vice" to the Extreme is Bad

This is the last picture I had taken with my father before he died of a heart attack while driving cross-country on February 27th, 2014. This was a selfie he took of us while waiting in line to get my face painted at the Topsfield Fair in November of 2013. And yes, though it was not technically legal yet (decriminalized in 2008 & medically approved in 2012), we were high.

This is not a story specifically about this fun day at the fair, but rather it is a warning about how any vice we choose to use to the extreme can hinder our lives, whether it be alcoholism or in my daddy's case, a cannabis habit.

If you talk to cannabis smokers, most will say the same thing, that marijuana is not habit forming and a safer alternative to other legal vices. However, around the same time that we were having a high-old time at the fair, there was actually a study being done about Marijuana Use Disorders (MUD) in the U.S., which was later printed in JAMA Psychiatry in 2015. Their study found that 30% of users had some form of MUD, which is described as a dependency where the user will feel withdrawals when not smoking regularly. If I was to be totally honest with myself, I would say that even I probably have a small level of MUD because it has been a pretty long time since I was last "out." My father on the other hand definitely had MUD and made some terrible decisions during his lifetime because of it.

For starters, how does a man making over $80k a year in the 90s have a hard time paying his bills? Since I was so young, and there are certain things you just don't ask your parents, I'll never know exactly how much he spent a year on cannabis, but it had to be quite a lot to get into the type of debt he ultimately incurred before his death. And no, marijuana did not lead him to harder drugs, nor was he an alcoholic, but still his chosen vice cost him dearly.

His money is not all that he lost due to smoking weed. Around 1993, my father took out a loan behind my mother's back, from their join bank account, in order to come up with bail money for his dealer (it was still very illegal then, which is why he was called a dealer instead of a salesman). This choice, along with choosing to smoke just way too much, lead to my parent's eventual divorce. My mother was his fourth wife, but I cannot comment as to why his other relationships ended.

It's really sad to think about the pain he put himself and his loved ones through over his lifetime use and abuse of marijuana, because at the end of the day he was actually a really kind, silly and loving man, whom I absolutely adored. Over the last four years, the couple of weeks between 2/27 and 3/10 (the anniversaries of his death and his birthday) are especially hard for me and brings up a lot of these thoughts about my father, both the good and the bad.

My daddy never made it to his 65th birthday. Of course there is nothing to prove that my father died because of his marijuana use, but I have seen the proof of what smoking too much cannabis can do to someone's life, and it's not pretty. So though I too enjoy days of wake-and-bake and smoking a bowl before watching a movie, going out to eat, or even just before bed, I am aware that cannabis can be habit forming and that I need to limit how much and how often I smoke.

So just remember that any vice used to an extreme can be bad for you, and smoking weed is no different.