Help With Alleviating Dying Parent's Symptoms
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Luger187
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i got the chocolates from a dispensary, not the recipe. i edited the post so it makes more sense
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Dick Moser
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my bad hahaha a little high on the supply anyway when i read that, should have guessed, i was just like "damn man, holding out like that, dude should be ashamed" but now i feel dumb as a bag of stupid rocks. i always liked rice cripses over choclates or bakeables just cause you dont have you cook your butters or oils twice, and a long made tincure for slow oral ingenstion has always been affective with any of the patients i have known, but i would suggest a trial run by picking some up not making your own, so you dont waste anything (kinda hard to do right) good luck good bless and hope for happy holidays and harvests for years to come. stay medicated.
Luger187
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haha no worries
yeah i like baked stuff like cookies, brownies, etc. i made some butter from about 1 1/2 ounces of trimmings about a month ago. i used 3 buttersticks. was very medicated for about 2 weeks on just toast haha. also i bought some really grainy wheat toast, to hide the flavor. after about the second time eating it, they started tasting good
Dick Moser
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add some honey or cinnamon sugar (or BOTH) to that toast my man and you got a meal (i also LOVE sun dried tomatoes and guacamole on toast with some peanut or olive pot oil...heaven)
This is how I do it. I am a fan of Keep It Simple Silly ( KISS for short )
Get one ounce of quality trim, dry, and coarsely ground. ( or 1/4 ounce of good bud, dryed and coarsely ground )
Heat a large pan of water with around a quart or so of water. When it starts to boil add 1 lb ( 4 cubes ) of butter. Adjust heat for a Slow boil.
Add bud or trim. Stir it in
Keep it on slow boil for around an hour, stirring every 5 min or so.
You should see a 'green oily sheen' to the water after an hour of boiling.
Place a straining cloth ( some use cheesecloth, but I find cheesecloth to be too pourous ) over a large mixing bowl and carefully pour the mixture into the mixing bowl, straining it through the cloth. Careful It is HOT. ( I weight the edges of the cloth down with bags of flower so as to prevent the cloth from sliding into the mixing bowl from the weight, a second person helping at this point would be an asset ) let it cool for a while. When it is cool enogh, squeeze the remainder of the butter out of the cloth into the mixing bowl.
You should see a 1/2 to an inch of green melted butter floating on the top of the bowl.
Place the bowl into the fridge for a couple of hours to harden the butter. When it is hard you can just cut the butter out of the bowl and store it in a tupperware tub.
Discard the remaining water.
Use the butter as you would for any other recipe that calls for butter.
Note: This method does not remove the leafy taste from the butter, which can be done, but is much more complicated. I find that if I am cooking with this canna butter I should choose a recipe that will hide or cover the taste of the clorophile / green matter.
Choose a recipe that requires the amount of butter too satisfy. ( My oatmeal cookies take 3/4 cup, which gives me a moderate strength buzz, 2 cookies and its night night time ).
Know that by ingesting, rather than smoking, it is going to be around 2+ hours befor you feel the effects. Trial and error will get you the perfect balance that works for you ( or your father). And that the 'high' will be different from a smoking type of high.
Oatmeal raisin cookies are great with this recipe.
What works for me anyway....
Get one ounce of quality trim, dry, and coarsely ground. ( or 1/4 ounce of good bud, dryed and coarsely ground )
Heat a large pan of water with around a quart or so of water. When it starts to boil add 1 lb ( 4 cubes ) of butter. Adjust heat for a Slow boil.
Add bud or trim. Stir it in
Keep it on slow boil for around an hour, stirring every 5 min or so.
You should see a 'green oily sheen' to the water after an hour of boiling.
Place a straining cloth ( some use cheesecloth, but I find cheesecloth to be too pourous ) over a large mixing bowl and carefully pour the mixture into the mixing bowl, straining it through the cloth. Careful It is HOT. ( I weight the edges of the cloth down with bags of flower so as to prevent the cloth from sliding into the mixing bowl from the weight, a second person helping at this point would be an asset ) let it cool for a while. When it is cool enogh, squeeze the remainder of the butter out of the cloth into the mixing bowl.
You should see a 1/2 to an inch of green melted butter floating on the top of the bowl.
Place the bowl into the fridge for a couple of hours to harden the butter. When it is hard you can just cut the butter out of the bowl and store it in a tupperware tub.
Discard the remaining water.
Use the butter as you would for any other recipe that calls for butter.
Note: This method does not remove the leafy taste from the butter, which can be done, but is much more complicated. I find that if I am cooking with this canna butter I should choose a recipe that will hide or cover the taste of the clorophile / green matter.
Choose a recipe that requires the amount of butter too satisfy. ( My oatmeal cookies take 3/4 cup, which gives me a moderate strength buzz, 2 cookies and its night night time ).
Know that by ingesting, rather than smoking, it is going to be around 2+ hours befor you feel the effects. Trial and error will get you the perfect balance that works for you ( or your father). And that the 'high' will be different from a smoking type of high.
Oatmeal raisin cookies are great with this recipe.
What works for me anyway....
Thank you everyone. My father passed on February 4, 2011. He was a WWII vet (drafted, not by choice) who was wounded 3 times in the Phillipines, the last time taking shrapnel through his trachea. Fortunately there was a medic nearby who did an emergency tracheatomy and he spent many months in a military hospital recouperating, but making it through. My 87 year old dad wasn't stupid! When I offered him this alternative, he tried it. After the first day of chemo and trying the chocolate chip cookie method, he called me on the phone and asked, "Do you have any more of those cookies?!" He developed a very severe case of shingles as a result of the chemo, and the marijuana was the only thing that helped with the horrific pain and discomfort. It broke my heart when the leukemia took over and shut down symptoms so he could no longer eat or drink, and I didn't have the time, or ability to research different delivery methods, much less the ability to obtain safe product. I know a contributer gave me information on tincture but I just didn't have the ability to do it. This is such an abomination that there was something that could help my father's suffering and I wasn't able to get it for him, or obtain the equipment like a vaporizor. I would like to start advocating for the legalization of marijuana. We just laid my very beloved father to rest yesterday and I don't have the time or energy to research the subject. You all seem to be a community of great people who care deeply about the subject and have wonderful ideas. Could you please chime in with some reputable resources that I could make contact with to join in the fight? Peace to you all, and thank you. (And BTW, I told my dad that I planned to start being an advocate for legalization after his death, and he was was completely supportive!) Love you all, thank you so much. Jodi
Dick Moser
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first off...my sympathy's. god speed and blessings on your family brother. but all i can say my man is vote. your story is one of MILLIONS!!!!! some just heart wrenching, most involving the law. i hate to be insensitive, but you are not alone in your pain and loss, and im glad to have you joining the real "war on drugs" sorry your dad was a casualty. imagine a world (a hundred years ago and withing the next ten) when you could go to the store and buy medicine without having to pay HUNDREDS of dollars to prove you have an "acceptable illness" to buy pain relieving and potentially live changing medicines to improve the quality and length of life.
420n00b
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I'm sorry for your loss and thankful that another person sees the medicinal benefits of marijuana. As for advocacy groups theres none better than Norml -> http://norml.org/
Thanks. I hadn't thought of the prescription drug problem quite that way, so thank you for a great perspective. I will think about that and use it when I have more time to become a better advocate. I am a social worker who sees the misery of the people who are caught in the fight between food and health care and shelter, and it is appalling. I sincerely do not want this to be a political debate although I could argue that. My point is that my father fought HARD for his country, he was an upstanding member of the community who did many many good things such as build affordable housing, he went to church, he was a good neighbor, he supported his community, he was a good and faithful husband, he was a wonderful father, but he was denied medicine that could have helped alleviate his suffering. I do not say all of this because he is more deserving, quite the opposite. I say all of this because for those folks who want to judge, then judge my wonderful father who suffered so very much, and could have been helped by a simple herb that costs our country our lifeblood to try to irradicate. It's so STUPID! My father was a hero and it was an abomination that I had to sneak around to get him something that would help him in the final days of his life. I'm ANGRY, and you all should be too!