As the marijuana/cannabis enters your body through a different channel (e.g. your stomach lining rather than your lungs), the hit will be different and take anything up to an hour to reach your brain…

That’s right, an hour to reach your head – maybe more – as your stomach first needs to digest the food in which the marijuana/cannabis is contained. However, once the hit arrives, it will be much stronger than for smoking an equivalent amount of pot, basically because you get 100% of it rather than losing quite a lot in the smoke and ash.

I advise eating it only with some discretion, particularly for the inexperienced user. Let someone experienced, who you trust, help you with preparation the first time so you can judge the strength, and will be on hand if your high gets too intense. The point being that unlike smoking, you can’t just stop. Once you’ve taken it, you’ve taken it, and you just have to see it through.

Don’t let that put you off eating it, however. Because it is an “invisible” hit, you can take it then just forget about it, and as long as the dose is right, just relax and enjoy the high. There are also some very tasty recipes around, and cannabis actually tastes quite nice in its own right! Add fruit and nuts ( see recipe below) for tea time treats.

Eating marijuana is also the healthiest method of taking the drug. You just need to be careful, that’s all, and the best recommendation there is to not take any more on top of what you’ve taken, until that high has arrived – don’t be impatient, it will come within an hour or so. If it hasn’t by then, question what you’ve been eating! Also, don’t mix it with alcohol.

ADVANTAGES OF EATING MARIJUANA

As I said, it is healthier, and acceptable to those with strong objections to smoking. You can take some and then go out for the evening while the high comes up, thus getting high in public (a rare pleasure for some – though would cause great paranoia in others). There are many different ways of preparation so even those who treat some with distaste would probably like others.

DISADVANTAGES OF EATING MARIJUANA

Also covered above. Cannabis is not dangerous, even if you take too much – there’s no such thing as an “overdose” (you need to take about 10,000 times as much cannabis as it takes to get you high to be reaching potentially fatal levels – the equivalent with alcohol is as little as 10 times). But a deep hit from eating too much can be quite unpleasant – at the same time it can be quite mind-bending in the best sense of the word. Do it at your own risk, but don’t run scared of it either.

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