A Tip About Pot Brownies
The reaction to eating marijuana is a very different experience than when you smoke the stuff. For one thing, the THC takes a lot longer to kick in, almost an hour. For another, the effects when ingested are much more hallucinogenic than when smoked. The high is quite different: instead of feeling drowsy, introverted, and relaxed, you become gregarious. You see things that aren’t there. You can’t sleep at all. And finally, the high lasts a lot longer. If you’ve never eaten food laced with pot, take it easy: as they say on the Space Cakes in Holland, once you realize you’ve had too much, it’s too late.
I can recall two times I ate brownies.
The first time was at an employer’s Thanksgiving party in 1996 or so. Her husband had a large brown shopping bag filled with clippings from their friends’ plants, and filled up a 1 gallon sour cream container with bright green butter. I ate my first browni at about 6:00 PM, and my last at about 7:30: I was pleasantly out of my mind until 4:00 AM, where I fell asleep laughing to “Blazing Saddles.”
It didn’t turn out so well for my friend DJ, who left the party to buy some smokes at a nearby convenience store and never returned. I caught up with him the next day and asked what happened.
“Dude…” he began. “Let’s just say the flourescent lights at the Kwik-e-Mart were too much. I had a panic attack, went home, put on some Coltrane and turned out all the lights. I laid on the living room floor until I fell asleep.”
The second time, I learned just how powerful a little pat of butter can be. My friend Clarence and I had tickets to Leftover Salmon, a hippy/bluegrass band we both liked. I had some butter leftover from the aforementioned party, and spread a little bit on toast for each of us. Honestly, it was no more than one of those flat slabs they give you in a cheap diner.
That little slab, not even a teaspoon, had me flying high through a two-hour show, and then through the rest of the night. I didn’t get a wink of sleep, and when I showed up at 8:30 that morning for my job as a prep cook, I was still flying, and terrified I was going to lose a finger to the french knife.
Why am I going on and on about marijuana butter?
Watch this video.
h/t: Jeanna
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May 15th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
http://allspinzone.com/wp/2007/05/10/dumb-cop-gets-real-lucky/
yo brendan, i blogged this last week!
May 15th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I had some of those brownies back in the seventies, with a group of friends. It was hilarious!
May 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
wendy, i didn’t see your original post (being daddy for a week will do that to a guy), my apologies.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:36 am
that is freakin’ hilarious! I especially like the incredulous tone of the 911 operator (yea, sure, you’re dying, right). hee hee!!
May 18th, 2007 at 11:01 am
i like when the guy asks about the redwings score so he can tell if he’s hallucinating. comedy gold!