Cannabis brownie
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Cannabis or hashish can be cooked into a sweet cake, cookie, brownie, or other baked product to produce a psychoactive food. These items may be known as a hash brownie, special brownie, magic brownie, space brownie or space cake. Eating such a food can result in a similar psychoactive effect or "high" as smoking marijuana, although it may be delayed or mitigated due to slower absorption of the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) through the digestive tract. Some believe it imparts a smoother "high". However there are many accounts of stronger, sometimes frightening, longer lasting highs resulting from eating cannabis. Whereas the effects from smoking cannabis are usually felt within a few minutes, it can take up to a few hours to get high from ingesting it. Contrarily to smoking, where one can feel the high coming gradually; the way the THC is digested can result in a significantly stronger, instantaneous high that can last for hours. Products containing cannabis are widely available in cannabis coffee shops in the Netherlands (and various European cities), where consumption use of marijuana is effectively legal.
[edit] In pop culture
- The brownie lent its name to the 1968 film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a character portrayed by Peter Sellers becomes disillusioned with his mainstream life after falling in love with a free spirit, only to become just as disillusioned with the hippie subculture. Marijuana-spiked brownies are a key plot element.
- In "Garage Sale" - the second season premiere of the FOX sitcom That '70s Show - Steven Hyde makes "special brownies" that end up being consumed by Red, Kitty, Midge and Bob.
- In the movie Eurotrip, Scotty, played by Scott Mechlowicz, and Jenny, played by Michelle Trachtenberg; eat some brownies that they assume are hash brownies, but they are not.
- Ethan Embry's character in the film Empire Records consumes hash brownies while watching television.
- In the movie Never Been Kissed, Josie eats a load of pot brownies.
- According to many weed and brownie "fans," December 8th is allegedly National Brownie Day in the United States. While not an actual or official holiday, many users of the drug recognize it as an annual celebration, much like 4/20.
- In the movie Can't Hardly Wait, the stoner character played by Eric Balfour is eating hash brownies with his friends when his female friend feels tricked and throws her hash brownie at Lauren Ambrose's hair, where it sticks. Eric Balfour's character runs over to the thrown hash brownie and licks it off her head, saying, "I don't wanna waste any."
[edit] See also
| Cannabis resources (edit) |
| Use: recreational drug, pharmaceutical drug, spiritual, culture, 420, health issues, legal issues, cultivation, pipe smoking |
| Preparations: bhang, hashish, kief, shake, hash oil |
| Smoking: blunt, bong, chillum, dugout, gravity bong, hookah, joint, shotgun, smoking pipe, steamroller, rolling papers |
| Vaporization: vaporizer, knifers |
| Food: cannabutter, dope cake, Ganja goo ball, hash cookie, Green Dragon, Leary biscuit, cannabis brownie, Cannabis tea |
[edit] External links
- The Straight Dope column on Alice B. Toklas brownies (includes original text of recipe)
- Erowid.com recipes for cooking with cannabis, including Cannabis Brownies and Hash Brownies
