well, is it just plain bud you plan on eating? but even if it is prepared properly i dont think you'll get alot out of it. i woul dgo at least a gram. anyways, the high will be more body like and sedative. personally, i like smoking it the most.
make cannabutter and brownies. here's a GREAT video on how-to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OJh-M_HLC6s
You can make a pipe from almost anything. I used to roll one from aluminum foil. Tastes a little funny, but it's not bad. I just took an 8x10 piece (or whatever) and folded it down on one side. Tried to make it thick, so I might have folded it down a few times. You'll be able to tell if the size is right. Roll it around a pencil till it is a nice tube. Mush it a little in the middle so the weed doesn't fall out, and form the top half as roundly as you can without opening up the middle part too much. The foil should pretty much stay in place. This will make a bowl for you to stuff a little piece of weed in. These don't last forever, but they'll work for a few nights and after a few sessions it it'll work better than ever. The other way is to wrap some foil around like a milk top or something (anything really) and cut a hole into the top. Attach a straw to one side and make sure it's over the cap covered with foil and taped nicely. Stick some dope in the hole and light that bitch up. These seem handy. I hope this made sense. I hear you can smoke out of a coke can and make bongs out of water bottles but I'm not sure how to make those. Experiment! You can smoke out of almost anything.
the easiest and cheapest way to smoke is out of a ghetto bong. take a plastic bottle, burn a hole for the mouthpiece and one for a choke (but you don't have to do this), put tin foil at the top of the bottle (after taking the cap off obviously) poke holes, put the bud in, and blaze up :]