Hi I am a 27 year old male and have been enjoying Marijuana for about 7 years. I have a disability called Cerebral Palsy. It is a a form of brain damage that I suffered from birth that causes the signals from my brain to not reach my muscles in my legs properly causing muscle spasms, a tone (locking of the muscles which constricts movement) This also causes me to walk with a limp and having to use a cane for balance. Smoking has had such a positive effect on my quality of life that I cannot imagine my life without it. I recently bought a vaporizer to use with my herbs and I LOVE IT!.. I started doing this because I use herbs almost exclusively for pain management at this point. I find that only after a few tokes using my vaporizer I can stretch my muscles in my legs, and back with little to no pain at all. This allows me the mobility to do things most people take for granted such as common household chores and being able to leave my home and have a social life. Through using the vaporizer I found that I have been using far less material then the usual methods (pipe, rolled, etc...) As anyone would know who have used a vaporizer you end up with leftovers. I used to smoke these leftovers before bed just to relax me enough to sleep. This worked fine but I was still taking a lighter to the herb, therefore defeating the purpose of trying to be healthier in my pursuit of pain relief. After some research online I learned that you can infuse cooking oil with the vaped leftovers and then in turn use that oil in edibles. I really would like to start doing this on a regular basis so that eventually I can get off of ALL my medications that I am currently taking. (1 type of pain killer, 2 types of muscle relaxers). I hate the side effects and being dependent on something that was produced in a lab instead of something pure from the earth. If anyone has any success with this please share your tips and tricks I would greatly appreciate it. This fourm is one of the only places I feel safe enough discussing an issue that makes most uneasy. Thank you all for your help
Cooking with the vaped stuff may be a little weaker because obviously, but there should enough useable stuff to be effective for meds. I would recommend you follow this guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCB6n3M6j40"]BEST Ganja Butter for Medical Marijuana part 1 - YouTube The extra extraction with water really does add allot of good butter. Last time I made butter I think the extra from that was about 50 grams of butter using a pound of butter for a quarter pound of shake. But don't add too much water, I have made that mistake. You really won't need much. If you are new to edibles, I would start with small doses. Allot of people find them more intense then smoking and ingesting it actually turns it into a different chemical them smoking. They are very similar chemicals though. For best results you should eat any edible within a an hour or two of a decent amount of food. By doing this your body will burn that food first for energy causing the edible to sit in the digestive system for longer. This will give your body more time to absorb it. If you eat an edible on an empty stomach you will still notice an effect but in my experience it's a little reduced.