Oh, it worked alright! I'm still buzzing from brownies I had over 6 hours ago. It put me to sleep it was so powerful.
Cannabis binds to alcohol; soaking it in Everclear for 2 weeks does the trick, and requires no further activation (although if it did, heating it to 315 degrees while cooking the brownies would do the trick, no?)
My brownies will screw you up. If I calculate it up, I'm getting only about a half of a gram of pot per little square of brownie. So I took only about a gram and it had me higher than I've ever been before. The effects are way stronger than the effects of the same gram smoked. Which is sorta weird cause everybody keeps saying that you need a whole lot more of the brownies to do the same thing as smoked. Next time I will only take one little square (a half gram) and see what it does.
My recipe was as follows:
One box of duncan hines mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup canola oil
a half pint my alchol/pot mixture that had been going for two weeks.
I mixed well and put in an 8X8 pan, cooked for about an hour. In retrospect, I should have cut back on the water, because they came out still pretty soft in the inside. And you can definitely taste the everclear, so probably next time I will make them with cannabutter. (although the alcohol taste isn't bad at all) But the mix didn't smell at all while I cooked it. I would have felt comfortable having mom over. She never would have known a thing. They just smelled like nice chocolatey brownies.
Drinking
One may extract the active ingredients from marijuana using alcohol and then use this tincture to make a potent drink. The highest proof alcohol available should be used, preferably 190 proof grain alcohol, since the water in the alcohol will dissolve other chemicals in the marijuana that one wishes to avoid. Some suggest soaking the grass in warm water for a period to remove those chemicals but that presents a whole host of other and is not really recommended. One may simply place the marijuana into a bottle of grain alcohol and let the canabanoids leach out, but this takes 2-3 weeks of time. A faster method is to heat the alcohol to sub-boiling and stir in the marijuana. Great deal of care should be taken if this method is chosen as the alcohol is highly flammable. The resulting tincture, often called "Green Dragon", is a light to emerald green liquid, which can be drunk straight, but this is not recommended. Highly lauded is a drink of 3 parts lemon lime soda, 1 part green dragon and a dollop of honey served over ice.