It’s the Little Dipper by Crock-Pot! Let me tell you what’s so great about these things: They are small and hold only a limited quantity. That may not be great for cooking a big meal, but it’s perfect for processing a small amount of cannabis. It also subtly encourages you to make a reasonable amount [...]
The Reluctant Cannabis Patient
So, how did I get started with medical cannabis? I have asthma, PTSD, anxiety, and panic attacks. When Old Hippie and I went to a medical cannabis gathering awhile back, someone there said that smoking cannabis was good for asthma. I almost said bullshit to his face. Smoke, particulates, perfume all hurt my lungs. My [...]
Old Hippie’s BBQ Lobster Tail With Cannabutter Recipe
If you like getting high from your munchies in style, this is for you. OK, so there I was, sitting around on a pretty good day for January (California…January…sunny and T-shirt weather!). I wanted to eat something interesting. And then I remembered I had put a lobster tail away for just such an occasion. Given [...]
Ask Old Hippie: What Can I Do With Marijuana Cooking Oil?
Dear Old Hippie: I wanted to make some marijuana cooking oil. So I bought around a quarter ounce of weed and I ground all of it up. Then I put ¾ cup of canola oil in a pot and started to heat it. When it started to simmer, I put the weed in and added about [...]
How To Cannabinize Yourself To Prevent Marijuana Deficiency
Recently, I began a light detoxifying regimen, meant to gently clean out “stuff” that’s built up in my body over the last six decades without causing undue gastric distress (the dreaded “colon cleanse”). As I’m pretty sensitive to the effects of everything going on in my body, I noticed an inability to focus and mental [...]
Mom! Here’s How To Get Your Teenagers To Eat Their Vegetables!
…assuming that your teenagers have medical marijuana recommendations, of course :-) It all started, as many of these adventures do, with Uncle Buck and his cooking class at Magnolia Wellness in Orangevale (a suburb of Sacramento). This was a two-day cooking class focusing on making cannaoil and cannabutter, teaching people how to decarboxylate their cannabis [...]
How To Turn Water Into Wine Using Mind Power
Today is Friday, and yesterday was Thursday, and lately around here that means it’s time for Uncle Buck’s cooking class at Magnolia Wellness in Orangevale. Due to the festive nature of the season, Uncle Buck was showing us how to make Christmas tree decorations. OK, they were really Electric Rice Krispie Treat Balls, where “electric” [...]