For all those still not grasping it, THC HAS TO BE HEATED TO ACTIVATE!
When you bake brownies, cupcakes, bread, or anything else, the oven you cook it in is heating the cannabis (or cannabutter more than likely) and releasing the THC into your food. If you eat a straight bud, you will not get high, if you do it is a placebo high. Straight trichomes and hairs are called kif, they make devices called kif catchers which do nothing but get the kif off your bud. If you smoke kif, it is a much more potent high. So, just smoke it.