Notice how you said if you eat an 8th of quality bud, youll get stoned. If you cook .25g of quality bud youll get stoned. You would need to eat so much raw bud in order to get high that you would be wasting your money. It will work, but it would be expensive and not worth it. Not to mention it would taste like shit and take a long time to take effect. When you bake THC into anything with another kind of oil in the recipe, the oils in whatever your baking absorb the THC oils and the heat activates the THC's hallucinogenic properties. Not only does it take effect faster, but it makes it more powerful because its releasing everything it has as opposed to eating un-heated THC which isnt strong at all. If it was worth it everyone would just be eating raw bud, if it was worth it no one would be killing their lungs and going through the trouble of baking for 20mins in an oven. Go ahead, spend however much you want on an 8th of bud and get high, or spend however much you want on a gram and make four cupcakes and get stoned four times. The choice is up to you.
later-radefactor
PS: It is a proven fact that chocolate (or cocoa) oils strengthen the effects of THC. They not only absorb the THC, but they have a safe reaction that makes it more powerful and creates a stronger, longer lasting high. I've known kids who've eaten as much as a gram of un-heated pot and have felt absolutely nothing then got pissed off when they told me later and I said they were morons and should have asked me. Waste your pot, its your money.