Quote Originally Posted by enjoicairo
hey guys, i've been smoking for a reasonable amount of time, almost a year now, but lately, i've wanted to try cooking. i've recently heard of a recipe where you simply place bud over cheese on a rits and microwave, and a recipe like this seems reasonable, but before i try cooking simple recipes, i have some questions

1. do the cannabinoids need to be heat activated, (if i just put bud on a sandwich would it work?)
Well... the cannabinoids doesnt need to be heated to work. BUT there are two reasons to heat it anyway.
One is that when the weed is freshly harvested, homegrown, not-so-high-quality (<mids) or not properly cured, it has large amounts of THCA, which is a cannabinoid that has no effect (doesnt get you high). Heating the weed transformes this THCA in THC (the one which gets you high), thus increasing (sometimes greatly) its potency.
The other reason is that the THC must be solved in fat to be better absorbed by the body. So when you mix the bud with the cheese and heat it, the cheese melts, and this molten cheese mixes with the weed and absorbs its THC. Yet if the cheese were not molten, it wont mix well enough with the weed.
One very important thing is that the weed must be ground as fine as possible, to help to maximize the THC absorption by the cheese.

Quote Originally Posted by enjoicairo
2. would a simple recipe such as heating in a microwave for around 15 seconds stink up the house?
It actually makes some smell... but its the smell of raw (or at most, a bit toasted) weed, and NOT the easily recognizable smell of burnt weed.

Quote Originally Posted by enjoicairo
3. how much herb do you need to consume to reach a high
It depends... the usual recipes we have here at cann.com says anything about 0.5-1g for each cracker... its enough for a great high.

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4. and lastly, how much stronger is the high?
If the weed were good, and if you eat on an empty stomach (cause eating weed on a full stomach simply does NOT work), the high can range from an usual high to a complete loss of contact with the reality. The high from eaten weed is different from the smoked weed. It takes far longer to start (2 hours or even more), and lasts far longer (some 4-6 hours or more). Thats why the amount of weed needed is large.

Anyway... look at the other threads in this recipes forums... there are a lot of useful informations there... for example:
http://boards.cannabis.com/recipes/8...ecrackers.html

So, good luck! And have a nice high! :thumbsup::stoned: