| Dosing is a mess. Here is my advice: Start from good bud. Highest strength / weight ratio. You can get different sized capsules from GNC or similar stores. A given raw plant will be similar by weight, but does vary some. When you bake it, go until it is crunchy dry. Can be an hour, but watch temp. At 250, THC boils off into the air. I used an oven thermometer. Preheat, until you see 235, then put your stuff in there. I used foil in a shallow pan, and foil to cover it. Then fine grind when done. I used a good coffee grinder. You can test what you did by literally dipping your finger into the powder and licking it off. You will get a noticable buzz. That means it will work. Get one of those little scales. And weigh what you have and make portions. More in a bit. Ok, back. Had a kid crisis to manage. Fill capsules from a portion without packing down. They sell little jigs that hold the capsules for you to just scrape it in. Close them up, and you have doses. Then, someone has to take one. They take 30 minutes or so to hit, and can last for hours. Titrate from there. It is experimental, and best done on days where you have no commits and do not need to go out. The other simple thing you can do with activated plant material is make simple edibles. No bake cookies, hard candy, etc... Just toss the powder in and mix well. A mostly sativa plant is a head effect that leaves a person with energy, will remain awake generally. Indica is more of a body effect, and it is sleepy type. Mine prefers sativa because after mental adjustment and tolerance, she will still be active. We reserve indica for can't sleep nights. You can research these things online. I did and learned a ton. I tended to sample what I made as I do not use the stuff at all, but do want to know what it is capable of. Truth is, a little goes a long way for us not sick or hurting people. But for sick or hurting people, it takes more. Just know that. Be careful, be clean, don't judge, try to have fun, be positive. If it works for her, this is a special thing you can do, and it is just nice, human. Made our lives much better. This stuff is a mood amplifier. If you want it to be good, it tends to be. Every so often, I will have some and enjoy a meal we cook together, movie, music. Those are nice times we look forward to. |
To get started, I'd say eat an amount about the size of a pea then you can eventually find a schedule and dosage that gives desired effects. With more frequent dosing of smaller amounts, (4-6 hrs for me) you can have the benefits while keeping enough tolerance on the mental cloudiness to not get headaches/overwhelmed. There are definitely unique benefits to high-dosage meditative experiences though too.
As someone taking cannabis for breathing difficulties, when I realized I could use such a simple preparation to make it edible, it made life so much easier.