Bhang is said to relieve anxiety, boost meditation, and cause transcendental states of mind and spiritual ecstasy. If taken in “proper” quantities, Bhang has many medicinal values, including improving digestion and appetite, decreasing pain, clearing the mind, improving moods, and aiding with sleep.

PROTIP: This recipe calls for 1 ounce of bud to 6 cups of liquid! This is very potent! Start with about a shot glasses to a shot glass and a half’s worth and wait to see how that effects you before drinking more. You have been warned!

If you’re looking for Cannabis Milk, not Bhang, check out EdibleMJ’s cannamilk recipe.

Directions:

1. Bring the water to a boil in a clean teapot.
2. Remove any stems or seeds from the cannabis, add to the teapot, and cover. Let simmer for approximately 7 minutes.
3. Strain the water and cannabis through cheesecloth and squeeze the wet cannabis to extract as much water as possible. Save this water.
4. Place the cannabis in a mortar and add 2 tablespoons warm milk. The milk should be really hot but NOT boiling. Slowly but firmly grind the milk and cannabis together.
5. When the milk has cooled, put the cannabis through cheesecloth and squeeze out as much weed milk as you can. Save this milk.
6. Repeat this process until you have gathered 1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) of marijuana milk. The cannabis should look pulpy at this point. Put the cannabis back into the mortar.
7. Add the chopped almonds and enough warm milk to completely cover the chopped almonds and cannabis.
8. Grind the mixture in a mortar until a fine paste is formed.
9. Put this through cheesecloth and squeeze out as much milk as you can. Save this milk also.
10. Repeat until dry.
11. Throw out the dry mass. Combine all the liquids that have been saved (water and milk).
12. Add garam masala, ginger powder, sugar, rosewater, and remaining milk. Stir.
13. Chill, serve, enjoy.

Remember: BE CAREFUL. This drink is potent — know your limits!

This confectioners’ sugar lollipop mold tutorial from King Arthur Flour is one of those great ideas that will stop you in your tracks with how simple it is. Instead of getting hard cannabis candy stuck in molds, why not just use confectioners’ sugar to make your own? Plus, depending on what object you use to make the indentations, you can get really creative with shapes and color layering! What an amazing idea!

Marijuana candy, cannabis candy, weed candy — no matter what you call it, everyone loves it! Marijuana hard candies, a sure hit at any party due to the sheer novelty, are also really great for discrete dosing: just pop one in your mouth and you are good to go, with no one the wiser! Use this cannabis candy recipe to get you started:

1. Add sugar, syrup, and water to a pot on the stove over medium-heat. Stir until all ingredients have dissolved. Bring to a boil. KEEP STIRRING.
2. Bring to 300 degrees (F) and slowly stir in color and flavorings. KEEP STIRRING.
3. Turn off heat and, as quickly and as SAFELY as possible, stir in your marijuana tincture (Stoner Jerry works great!) and pour into candy or lollipop molds.

That’s it! Really! Making candy is EASY, you just have to make sure you pay attention to your temperatures. Sugar liquefies into a brown goo (caramel!), so if you are seeing this you are doing it right. Make sure you don’t over heat it, though: burned sugar is a mess and smells like ass! It really helps to have a candy thermometer. To help you out, we have a few nice ones in the EdibleMJ Shop if you don’t already have one. We’ve also added some cool candy molds for you to pour into! There are TONS of molds available online, especially on Amazon, so feel free to browse. Picking your candy mold is half the fun!

WARNING: Melted sugar will solidify very quickly so you must move very fast when pouring. If you have never made candy before, please heed this warning and BE CAREFUL. Sugar, when melted, is EXTREMELY FREAKING HOT and WILL burn the crap out of you! Trust us, don’t get high before hand if you are new at this!

This weed recipe is SIMPLE! You will need some nice hashish for this. Even soap bar will do, and really soft crumbly pollen works in a pinch as it has a nice flavor (and has already reached that crumbly stage with out any extra work). You could also use some weed but you will need to grind it down as fine as possible (after all, no one likes picking bud out of their teeth!). This is going to make enough for two people to get really, really blazed if they eat it all in one sitting.

1. First, warm your hashish! Use a large metal spoon over a gentle low heat and it will soon begin to crumble to a fine powder. Set aside.
2. Break the chocolate up into pieces. Using a small pan, heat the cream to just boiling and then remove from the heat.
3. Immediately add the chocolate, butter (or cannabutter), booze and hashish.
4. Mix well until the chocolate has melted and is smooth.
5. Pour into two small bowls (or cups) and set in the fridge.
6. Now for the hardest part, waiting! At this point you can wash up the ONE dish you’ve used… and take a couple of tokes from the vaporizer!

That’s it! As soon as your mixture cools and solidifies a bit, eat it and enjoy your day! Eat it sooner if you’d like it to have more of a pudding consistency, and leave it in longer if you’d like it thicker (almost like fudge). Medibles couldn’t be easier!

There aren’t many rules regarding marijuana consumption, except for those laws that make it illegal. In the past week, though, marijuana keeps appearing in food news. And it’s not just pot brownies giving people the munchies.

Well, in one case it was pot brownies. Last weekend in Huntington Beach, California, three elderly people were sickened after unknowingly eating marijuana-laced brownies at a funeral. The pot came from the deceased’s leftover medicinal marijuana, which the man’s daughter announced, but apparently two 71-year-old women and an 82-year-old man missed the message. They went to the hospital with nausea, dizziness and difficulty standing. (For the record, the venue that hosted the memorial claims the incident didn’t happen there.)

Pot food’s not just for old people, though. The kiddies love it, too! Just in time for Halloween, parents are not pleased about the appearance of candies shaped like pot leaves, even though the candies do not contain marijuana.

The candy, which includes pot leaf-shaped lollipops, ring pops and gummies, is being sold to promote the legalization of marijuana. It’s produced by Kalan LP of Philadelphia, and it’s been on the market since last spring.

While some parents are appalled at the idea of their kids being offered marijuana candies, a few are taking it as an opportunity to discuss marijuana use with their children.

For more sophisticated tastes, marijuana-infused wine is making headlines. It only makes sense, considering California’s wine country is near pot country. Gourmet exposed the marriage of the two inebriating industries last week, while noting that eating marijuana is “a bit of psychoactive Russian roulette with a strange aftertaste.”

Nevertheless, the story focuses on “medibles” — marijuana-laced foods sold at medicinal marijuana dispensaries — and “green wine” or “tree wine.” That’s pot-infused wine, and apparently California’s rife with it. But only if you know the right people.

Twirling Hippy Confections owner Jessica LeRoux says a Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division inspector with the state has been telling shops that her packaging doesn’t meet state regulations, writing up at least one for a violation. But LeRoux says he’s misinformed and mistakes like his could cost business owners like her money by scaring off future purchasers.

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D.F. Dickerson wrote a great — though perhaps a bit colloquial – write up on how to make cannaflour. The directions are super easy and gives you a great cannapreparation that doesn’t involve butter or oil.

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Steve Elliot reviews Puffless Soda’s new awesome line of cannacolas for the Incredible Medibles blog at Seattle Weekly.

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The word “migraine” is one of the most frequently searched terms here at EdibleMJ — and if you suffer from migraines then you already know why. Debilitating and demoralizing, migraines can instantly turn an awesome day into an awful day. There is hope, however: with a proper cannadiet and a little science, you can help prevent migraines before they have a chance to develop.

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Steve Elliott (from Toke of the Town fame) posted his Top 5 Marijuana Medibles list in his Seattle Weekly blog. It’s a little generic but still worth a look for a few fresh ideas. He writes: “There’s been an incredible flowering of creativity on the cannabis medibles scene. Almost every time I visit a dispensary or a farmers market, I find at least one medicated edible I’ve never seen before. From sweets like brownies, cookies, and cake pops to salty snacks like Chex mix to healthy options like granola bars to cannabis drinkables and sodas, it’s an exciting scene to witness. Here are five of the tastiest, most unique, and lest we forget, the most potent edibles available in the THC-attle area.”

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Rut roh, Shaggy! These cookies are going to get you super stoned, plain and simple. Treat yourself with this classic chocolate chip weed cookie recipe and a tall glass of cannamilk and you’ll be good to go!

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This is a very complicated question. The strength of an edible depends on a great many variables: the recipe and what you are making, the strength/quality of the cannabis used, which part of the plant you are using, the amount of plant material used, method(s) of extraction, the recipes and its portion size, etc. Obviously this leaves room for lots of variation among these elements, so as you can probably guess there is no easy scale for potency when it comes to cannacooking. So how do you figure out how to dose your medical marijuana edibles? We decided to do some science and find out.

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“I have had severe migraines for three decades along with daily headaches that would be a migraine to most people,” writes Shauna Osborn of Chico. ”When I was young I had melanoma in my eye, optic nerve and brain tissue, which they removed all three. Since that time I have been on a doctor rollercoaster. I have been to headache clinics, therapy, trials, you name it. I’ve tried recommended diets, natural alternatives and every medication they could think of including migraine [medication], antidepressants, high blood pressure, anti nausea, etc.”

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Apple cider is not only useful for cooking  but cold cider is also delicious by itself on a hot summer day. This recipe calls for hard apple cider but don’t worry — alcohol-free cider works just as well! Make sure you are using the highest quality (best filtered/most powdery) keif or hash you can get your hands on and prepare for blast-off!

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