Baked. Yzabetta Sativa

       Introduction

      I tried to quit smoking for over ten years to no avail. Every time I quit smoking cigarettes it would be smoking a joint that would bring me back to the habit. The most delicious thing, my favorite cigarette of all, was the one I would smoke after I had smoked a joint. As time passed I developed asthma and found during heat waves it was impossible to breathe. I felt horribly guilty for smoking and mentally raked myself over the coals for every cigarette I smoked. I figured it was only a short amount of time before I was going to go insane and take all those around me along for the ride.

      One day I was being harassed by an avid non-smoker about when I was going to quit and I decided to disclose my vice so as to explain why I had been failing at quitting for over a decade. Well, he looked me straight in the face and in a laissez-faire tone of voice asked “Why don’t you eat your pot instead of smoking it?” A light bulb went on and the sky opened up and for the first time I thought it just might be possible for me to quit smoking.

      I did some research and found out that THC isn’t water soluble. I studied the history of the use of pot, especially its Indian past. I experimented with different kinds of cannabis and eventually got Baked Butter down to an art form. I quit smoking and commenced with the eating of my pot. I was astonished to find that I now prefer the high I get from eating it. Whenever I smoked it there was this moment, right before the baked feeling set in, where my heart would palpitate and I’d feel like I’d had too much coffee and for a few moments would have to confront my own mortality. I’m happy to see that part of the intoxication vanish.

      Another up side to eating my pot instead of smoking it is that my $140 a week habit is now a $140 a month habit. Combine the reduction of that cost with the money I saved by quitting smoking I managed to save, in a year and a half, a down payment for a house. I bought the house, moved my trusty crock pot along with all my other worldly possessions and, quite frankly, never looked back. I quickly got sick of pot brownies and started developing other yummy concoctions which I have put together in this cookbook.