Wow, you've never eaten it before?
It's a totally different experience, imo, and you can ingest a lot more into your system than by smoking. Make some hash, and eat it with something fatty, like chocolate. Or make some hash butter.
I used to make tons of caramels with hash infused, I also made a bunch of chocolates. It's super easy, just warm up the caramel, or chocolate in the microwave, not molten hot (be careful) and add the hash, stir, and seperate into bite size portions, or dip pretzels in it etc. You get the idea.
Or you could just go oldschool and dump a sack of reefer into a pan of brownie mix, that works to, just make sure to remove all the stems and bake at a lower temp, don't burn them.
Be careful though, or you'll put yourself to sleep for 12 hours or more
My buddies dog ate one hash caramel and slept for 18 hours straight, got up a few times for water, and pissed herself in her sleep... I told him she had to have eaten more than one, and he swore it was just one. It's a black lab mix, like 50 pounds, a gram of hash put her out for a solid day.
--As far as Advanced being costly, I see it as an investment to allow Dr. Hornby and his team of genius do research, study and create better products.
Sure other companies are doing research, but Hornby is focused on thc% and resin production, not to mention taste, and yield.