Tho not as technical as most of your posts are on this thread, this is the closest topic of yours I could find to share my latest Meatloaf Muffin method of taking in Cannibus.
My goal, for those who have not seen my posts, is to find the dosage of dried and ground herbs that don't make me high, but still give pain relief for Osteoarthritis.
The important ratio that works for me is how much herb to how much lean ground meat.
Preheat your oven to 350 deg. F
1) The herb: 1/2 cup ground leaves, minibuds, and male pods (when available). The resulting herb is a mix of strains, gathered when I trim out the plants during the grow. No decarb necessary. Cured is preferred, but not required.
2) 2 pounds ground lean meat. Most meat has enough fat in it to absorb the herb while cooking.
3) Add 1 and 2 to the rest of your favorite recipe for meatloaf.
4) Spray or otherwise grease 2 large-capacity muffin tins. These are sold as 6 cups to a tray, and you will get anywhere from 8 to 12 muffins, depending on how many other ingredients you use in your recipe.
5) Fill each muffin cup full, unless you are using uncooked rice and extra liquid. Then I would fill half-full. Bread cubes or stuffing mix will not expand like rice will, so fill to the top.
6) Cover each tray with aluminum foil for thorough cooking
7) Bake for 1 hour, then turn off oven and remove the foil to allow for browning, while the oven cools down.
8) Freeze each muffin in a ziplock bag for a single-serving, microwavable snack later on. (save one for your sample)
9) My dosage is one muffin. This dosage is equal to 1/2 cup divided by the number of muffins you make.
This dosage should not make you high, unless you are just starting out. If your sample DOES make you high, next time eat 1/2 a muffin until you adjust to eating a whole one without the stoner effects.
I hope this is helpful, and in the right place. Feel free to copy to the correct forum if not.
Forgive me for taking so long to check in on this. My mistake apparently, after reading what you left.
This is a delightful recipe that serves a great purpose in dosing.
Speaking of dosing, yours would be called "casual dosing" in Dr. Frankel's medically-structured world. Pharmaceuticals sure did train our doctors to be methodical to the mg, didn't they? Here's Dr. Frankel's discussion of his policy of "focused dosing."
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Now.....the good doctor makes some excellent points on dosing, and I value his experience, and truly appreciate his sharing that knowledge with us out here in the trenches.
This move to tightly control the cannabinoid dose to metered milligrams disturbs me. It feels wrong on a very basic level, and although I can't articulate it properly yet, I know this isn't something I want to back. This plant was used to assist healing for as far back as we can look. Maybe it's my displeasure with the hell the pharmaceutical companies unleashed on us and all the needless suffering they've profited from, but I strongly resist making cannabis medications conform to the constraints of pharma meds dosing procedures.
Can we learn to control illness with metered doses? Absolutely, and for those still caught up in the myth that there's something to fear from THC and the euphoric experience, this is a wonderful advancement. Let's keep refining it.
But let's not start some dialogue that makes "casual dosing" something that's seen as a second-tier medical approach. In my world my breakfast brownies are superior meds, in the same way your meatloaf muffins will be a godsend to anyone who gives them a try in hopes of countering the creeping aches and pains.
Neither of us need call our doctor to tell him how we're doing on our regimens, do we? Not a lot of money to be made by us "casual" dosers, unless you look at the money we spend on our grows.
You need your doctor to monitor your pharma drugs because they can make your life a living hell if you don't. No such danger exists with cannabis. Yes, we like to have our hands held when we're sick, but we seem to have trained ourselves to look outside ourselves for the answers that only come from within. Cannabis is not only the safest medication we can choose, IMHO, but it'll make you more aware of what you're body is doing.
Methinks I've developed a distrust for doctors. Even the friendly ones make me uneasy. We're evolved to heal. That's a message I haven't heard a single one try to get out there. It's all about dependence. Cannabis is all about individuality and independence.
*sigh* I believe this fearless woman will continue to encourage more to hear the healing potential of their own cells calling them to homeostasis and work out more casual ways to heal with the help of this lovely plant we all adore. I still have five in bloom. The apartment smells amazing!
Hadn't considered until this very moment the therapeutic effects of raising cannabis from the perspective of the terpenes you're inhaling. Think of it, the terps direct the action of the cannabinoids, they cause the "effect" you feel from the cannabinoids. We dote over our charges, so we'd be getting a lion's share, on a daily basis. This has to be having a healing effect. It would work with the ECS in the same way, and most of us have a steady supply of cannabinoids in our systems.
