Smoking makes you smell. Of course, body odor and yellow teeth are the least of your problems when you’re dead. But, with a beer in hand, what are your other options? Unfortunately, it is a cigarette or nothing. Luckily, when it comes to other smokables, there are more viable options because “special” food is everything Nicorette gum is not: indulgent, tasty and more effective than smoking. Plus, it’s a good use for the unsmokable brown shwag that is all too common on Georgetown’s campus.
Ganja food has more hallucinogenic qualities than smoke and can knock out even the most seasoned smokers, producing what one veteran called a “total body high.” When asked what the food does to him, he replied, astonished, “It makes me not need to smoke … at all.”
Effectiveness aside, food and marijuana have always been a natural pair. What’s more, THC, the active compound in marijuana, can be added to any item with fat. This is not only a great excuse to skip over low fat garbage, but it also means that aside from the standard brownies, any baked good containing butter or oil can be made “special.” You can even boil it in milk and add it to Earl Gray to make a skunky Chai latte.
Bhang is a millenia-old Indian drink made from hot milk, pot butter, cardamom, honey and, if you are a glutton for punishment, alcohol. Goo Balls, a heady mixture of pot butter, peanut butter, Rice Krispies, chocolate and other trail-mix items were made popular by jam bands and could be had for only a dollar apiece in parking lots at Phish shows. By comparison, Marvelous Market’s cookies are $2 a pop, often stale and most definitely do not get you baked.
Marijuana can also be extracted into heated alcohol, but this method is far less tasty and packs a superfluous punch. Stick to baked goods like cookies; you’ll be good and ready for them because Ganja food should be eaten on an empty stomach. One or two pieces of Ganja food will be enough, but they can take several hours to kick in.
Adam Gottlieb, the author of The Art and Science of Cooking with Cannabis, warns, “One may eat ten times too much and still be eating more before the first effects of the high have even arrived. If he does so, he may eventually lose consciousness for anywhere from 12 to 48 hours, depending how much is taken.”
