Thanks for the info Ricky! My wife has had her medical MJ card for a few years now. I bought her a Levo infusion machine that we use to infuse ghee and MCT oil. I also use the crock pot to infuse regular butter. We usually just make cookies with the butter and gummies with the oil but she'll put some of the ghee on toast or oil in here tea now and then. You can't taste the MJ as much when you use the Levo machine to infuse compared to ground buds added directly.

Now that Missouri passed the recreational MJ law we are going to try our hand a growing our own. Move over tomatoes and peppers and make room for the new guy in town.

Thank you so much for that. I saved, and printed so i can share this.

So much information is confusing. I have a few friends confused. One is PTSD having suddenly lost his wife to Covid. My SIL is dealing with long Covid in the worst way. She has lost her balance...went from daily bike rides to now a painful walk around the block with a cane. Not sure i'm qualified to recommend but so much is unknown and she is not getting much help medically. I need to learn more so please inform all you have time for.

Or link to the best information.

Using cannabis to treat long COVID

I have no association with said herb, but I still find your posts informative and interesting. I did know about fats being ideal, but that's about it.

Here's where I'm lost. Why exactly are we making buzzy meats and sauces? I get the cookies, and the easier to ingest than smoke, especially for many people who are ill. But after reading your previous posts about dosage control and all that, I wonder how that happens with meat. So...this is purely on the recreational side? Fine, less precision needed to get high. But how is culinary weed superior to other modalities? Or is it just a "why not?" situation?

Thanks for this helpful input. A dear dear friend of mine is dealing with pain from when he was hit by a car. His legs were mangled & the bones have been replaced with a lot of steel or steel attachments, and he was in a coma and as expected, ended up with a mild to moderate traumatic brain injury. I'll share your post with him.

plllog - Purely recreational when it comes to cooking with cannabis. The medical side of its value, which I deal with, is all done with edibles where dosage can be controlled.

As far as cannabis being superior to other modalities...just look at the damage caused by pain medication. Look at how many people have become addicted and then died from opioids. Cannabis is natural. It's a plant. No one has ever died from it. Many have had amazing results from its application toward pain, stress, and debilitating conditions. It was a "why not" situation for many years until people started using it seriously to treat illness. Now, it's become the first choice.

Thanks, Ricky, what I meant was eating cannabis hollandaise rather than a dosage controlled cookie or candy, or even (bad for the lungs) smoking modalities, not why cannabis. I understand and admire the usage of cannabis for all those things you mentioned. I was just asking about the dinner party aspect. It sounds like a lot of trouble for an uncertain outcome, and it's not like it makes the food taste good (operationally--I know it can stimulate appetite and affect perceptions) the way a (not enough to get any kind of buzz before cooking even burns off a little of the alcohol) splash of sherry or madeira can.

As to "natural" and "plant", can I interest you in tomato cousins (deadly nightshade), pennyroyal, the cousin of the delicious sumac commonly called poison sumac, oleander, hemlock.... Not to mention, whiskey is made from plants. ;)

For recreation, it's basically for fun, but for dealing with pain and disease management, people can have dietary restrictions or other medications/conditions that make sweets a no-no.

And even if it's for fun, the same restrictions might still be in play for some.

carol - We have plenty of folks that we bake gluten free and/or sugar free cookies for on request.

Carol - the infused MCT (coconut) oil can be added to just about anything. My wife adds it to her hot or iced tea.