Make the butter FIRST according to an accepted extraction technique, and THEN make the brownies. There's a distinct possibility that your cooking technique is lacking, and that your friends might even be experiencing somewhat of a placebo effect.

It should not take a whole ounce to get 8 people high off brownies if you do it correctly. When I make truffles using correctly extracted cannabutter or cannacream, it only takes 0.2 GRAMS equivalent to get to a VERY noticeable high, and I'm a pretty heavy smoker.

Try dosing your brownies at 1 gram per person, so take the amount of butter the recipe calls for and dose it at a gram of bud per person, extract that amount into the amount of butter you will be using, and then cook with that.

If that doesn't work, I'm at a complete loss, lol!

And can we not bicker too much? Pretty please with chocolate on top?