Advanced Techniques

Many thanks for the kind words guys.

I thought it might be useful to add a few extra details, tips and techniques for those people who are either new to ??space?? products, or who have struggled to produce good Cannabutter in the past. Also, I wanted to include some ??Master class?? information for the advanced users and outline the typical results and effects you??ll experience when following my recipe.

Recipe Guidelines

Firstly, the primary aim of this guide is to provide forum users with an easy tried and tested way of creating premium ??space?? products, each time, every time, with the minimum amount of time, effort and hash.
Please note, although the recipe calls for 2 grams of hash you can adjust this up or down easily depending on how many cookies you want to bake. The formula is to allow .25 of a gram per cookie (no more, no less). Usually I bake 4 at a time using just 1 gram and only half the cookie mix (1 tablespoon of clarified butter instead of 2 etc).
From a ??value for money?? point of view this produces extraordinary results.

Bear in mind that a single gram of hash when smoked (even when rolled by the most economical of tokers) is only going to make two, maybe three joints. On average that number will get someone high for perhaps an afternoon or an evening. Four space cookies from the same gram however, will give a trip length of 6 to 8 hours each! Giving an overall combined total somewhere between 24 and 36 hours! Not only that but you??ll be significantly more ??stoned?? than is possible by only smoking (More on the effects later).

Hash not green, why?

There are already several excellent recipes on the site for making Cannabutter from weed, however I generally advocate using only hashish for several reasons:

Firstly, most of the Cannabutter recipes call for fairly large quantities of quality green to be used (half an ounce or more). This is potentially a large financial outlay for most first-time bakers to invest in (particularly if it goes wrong and all they end up with is some foul tasting green coloured butter). It??s understandable that people might be cautious about making that kind of investment/commitment. I know I was. Therefore this recipe was developed to generate guaranteed results of the highest quality using only small amounts of precious stash.

Secondly, quality control issues. The nature of plant material means that my ounce of ??trim and shake?? may only have a fraction of the THC content of someone else??s, therefore, although we might both follow the same recipe, the differences in the various strengths of Cannabutter can give very inconsistent results. Hash is generally much more stable and consistent.

Thirdly, in order to make good cannabutter, you have to cook the green for quite a considerable period in order to break down the structure of the cellulose material and release the THC so it can bind with the butter. This is a fairly time consuming process that can easily fail to produce results for an inexperienced baker.
Hash, due to its production methods, requires little more than dissolving in clarified butter in order to achieve its potency. Much less likelihood of anything going wrong.


Effects and duration!

I wanted to give an explanation of the type of trip, duration and effects you??re likely to experience with this recipe. To a certain extent factors like your size, metabolic rate and how recently you??ve eaten will have a bearing, but generally, the timescales are as follows:

One hour (ish) after eating you??ll start to be aware of the first signs of the trip. Often described as a kind of metallic taste inside your head.
During the next hour you??ll feel the effects slowly start to build almost like waves washing over you.

Two hours (ish) after eating you??ll be experiencing ??Phase 1?? of the trip. Generally a similar feeling to being very stoned, heightened sense of hearing, smell, taste, etc.

Three hours (ish), and you??re entering ??Phase 2?? of the trip. Depending on the Sativa/Indica mix of your hash you??ll be either laughing your ass off or planning to start a new religion based upon worshiping the band you??re listening to.
Even David Schwimmer will seem hysterically funny at this point.
Some people report incredibly high levels of ??horniness?? at around this time (particularly women!).

Four to five (ish) hours after eating and you??ll be entering ??Phase 3?? (The highest phase) of the trip. At this point you??ll notice what can only be described as time distortion. For example: a 45 second TV commercial will seem as long as a feature film, you??ll no longer just be hearing music, you??ll be feeling it in rainbow coloured vibrations throughout your body. If you??ve waited till this point to indulge in ..ahem.. physical relations, you??re in for a real treat. So good in fact that I don??t want to spoil the surprise for you.

One note of caution however, for some people (even hard core tokers) this can be overwhelming phase, and may cause them to get anxious or panicky. Try and reassure them (They??re not going to OD, so for Christ sakes don??t let call for an ambulance. Lol).

If they??re finding it too much, sweet and sugary foods will help bring them down and/or shorten the trip.

From this point on, the phases reverse. You??ll drop down to ??Phase 2?? in about an hour or two, and ??Phase 1?? an hour or two after that etc.

The next day you??ll wake up feeling very mellow and chilled indeed. One thing to watch out for, if your working the next day you may find that an hour after having your first cup of coffee it??ll start all over again. Don??t worry; it??ll only last for about an hour or so and usually around ??phase 1?? in effect. Just don??t start giggling to yourself, employers don??t like it, they think your laughing at them.

Any questions please feel free to ask.

I??ve experimented with various strains and types of hash over the last few years to determine how much they alter the taste of the cookies, what different effects can be achieved, and for how long. If anyone??s interested I??ll put together a post detailing my findings for those who want to control whether they become ??space cowboys?? or ??time travellers??.

Anyhow in the meantime enjoy!