Delta-9 THC explained

Wed, 02/Jun/21

THC or Delta-9 THC represents the principal psychoactive compound present in marijuana. THC is an acronym, which unwinds to its scientific name “Delta nine tetra hydro cannabinol”. In the market, however, and in everyday speech, we use a popular handy nickname calling it simply “THC”.

Delta-9 THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is there in marijuana to make us high when we smoke weed, eat weed as edibles, or otherwise consume it.

Impact of Delta-9 THC

If you’ve just hit, and you suddenly start feeling an increase in imagination and an over-positive mood; troubles are far away; if a favorite movie involves you more than usual, or you desperately want to play a video game, or express your avalanching creativity in a drawing — it means the weed is good and rich with THC, and it’s kicked in.

Kenny McCormick, South Park series

For more than 12,000 years, people smoke marijuana for creativity, spirituality, and merely fun, and also we leverage the outstanding medical properties of weed, just along with the general highness THC gifts to us.

Boaters smoke weed, filmmakers definitely smoke weed, game designers, artists, poets, executive managers, and craftsmen — everyone smokes weed. Yeah, the latter two need a lot of creativity to keep going! The software developers of this website, marketers, designers, and copywriters love toking as well. The whole world.

Is Delta-9 THC addictive?

It depends greatly on what you call “addictive”, but just… er… Everything is addictive: social networks are addictive, the morning coffee is way addictive, and the Sun in the sky is addictive beyond imaginable.

The Cambridge dictionary defines the word:

Addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/ is a person who cannot stop doing or using something.

I personally cannot live without software making, I’m also video game addict, and an oxtail soup addict (yes, I’m very serious about oxtail soup!)

How long does Delta-9 THC stay in the body?

Studies indicate that 80-90% of the total intake of Delta-9 THC is gone from the system within 5 days. The peak reached after smoking falls in 4-6 hours. If you are a “chronic stoner”, Delta-9 THC is never out of your system. It also accumulates in fats where its presence expands to an undefined time span.

The crystal monstrosities in the picture above are the trichomes on the cannabis plant magnified. The trichomes make buds look frosty, while the contents of trichomes (namely, Delta-9 THC) make us high.

When we puff…

At the temperature 220-235℉, it equals 105-112℃, carbon dioxide present in the trichomes of marijuana abandons THCA (the THC acid) changing it to Delta-9 THC. As heating continues the temperature rises very quickly to 350℉, which equals 176℃, and at this point, THC evaporates: it changes from solid-state to gas. We inhale it with smoke, then in the lungs, Delta-9 THC absorbs into blood, and heads towards the brain.

How Delta-9 THC works on the micro level

On the micro-level, the molecular of THC has a proper structure to interact with the cannabinoid receptors in the human brain. These receptors are part of our endocannabinoid system, and, loosely speaking, Delta-9 THC is incidentally “compatible” with it. So THC contracts those receptors of the endocannabinoid system and incentivizes the chemical processes, eventually changing our behavior and our way of thinking.

Anandamide in relation to THC

The “high” that Delta-9 THC performs is a natural condition, and we have Anandamide in the body for the purpose to make us happy, thoughtful, and creative. THC only stimulates it.

This is what goes on when we intake marijuana.

Who has discovered Delta-9 THC?

Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, was born in Sofia in Bulgaria in 1930. He discovered THC and its effects on the human body and also isolated THC, and fully synthesized it in 1969. Also, he has identified how Anandamide works concerning the chemical backgrounds of happiness, and how marijuana affects this condition in the human body.

Let’s use cannabutter: the 100% Weed brownie recipe!

Tue, 20/Apr/21

Chocolate brownies do influence minds both figuratively and literally, and apart from weed they contain the chocolate itself already delivers high effects as it stimulates endorphins, and then the input of weed only makes high things seriously higher.

Cooking is art, ye be sure, and in the beginning you make certain you pick the world’s best chocolate!! for your marijuana brownies, and that’s how we reach the la-la-land.

Cannabutter brownies are the most classic of the weed edibles for a reason, but every time we face a serious risk – to eat the whole tray of the weed brownie mixture before it may even touchdown the oven.

We burn one down before the recipe, now let’s get started.

Ingredients to make weed brownies

The most important ingredient for making brownies with marijuana is chocolate. Of course, we shall need marijuana as well, but we suppose we have it once we are on the weed brownie recipe. The chocolate must be as pure as possible, say 70-90% dark. It won’t fly well with milk chocolate. Pure cocoa may work as a replacement, I love using 100% Peruvian cocoa, yet it’s hard at times to hunt one in the supermarket.

The ingredients for the weed brownies are pretty the same as for the regular brownies, but we replace butter with cannabutter. The latter already contains desired amount of marijuana, and it is “activated”: THC-acid is already converted to THC, trapped in butter fats, and the foreign smells are minimized. As soon as we are ready we put on the table the following:

• Chocolate 100g (or 1/2 cups if cocoa)

• Cannabutter 100g

• Sugar 200g

• 3 eggs

• All-purpose flour 100g

• Half a teaspoon of baking powder

• Half a teaspoon of salt

Can you use cannabutter instead of oil?

Yes, the basic idea is to use cannabutter for the marijuana brownies, but you can also use cannabis oil instead if eating butter is not your best diet. Cannabutter and cannabis oil are interchangeable for the weed brownies recipe, just the taste shall be different. I’d recommend trying both ways because the cannabutter brownies are among stoner’s most classic recipes!

Do I need to decarb weed for weed brownies?

The weed must be decarbed, which is the very idea of making edibles with marijuana, including the cannabutter brownies. If you use cannabutter the marijuana trapped in it is already decarbed. But if you just wish to use buds, just throwing them into a bowl – that can be done, but you need better decarb weed then (totally not what Nancy did in the “I love you, Alice B. Toklas” movie).

How do chocolate weed brownies trigger endorphins?

The weed in the weed brownies set us high, that is the reason why we cook weed edibles, and this is what we expect from our cannabutter brownies. However, for the brownies, marijuana is not alone in delivering happiness to the brain! Chocolate per se is already a drug, it stimulates endorphins, so we expect higher effects rather than smoking the same amount of weed we use for the cannabutter brownies. Maybe the reason why brownies are the most classic edibles of all.

Chocolate helps to improve the mood, feel calm, and be content. It contains serotonin, elevates mood, and stimulates the production of endorphins, the neurotransmitters – that are responsible for the brain’s chemistry for feeling pleasure, calm, and satisfaction.

We can see marijuana in the weed brownie recipe is not the only “active” ingredient, yeah, but your THC in cannabutter unites the attempt with phenylethylamine, aka love-drug, in chocolate – thus, this brownie is not just a weed recipe, but the message about getting higher than high!

Directions for the cannabutter brownie recipe

The rest cooking directions match well the classic chocolate brownie recipe. There are secrets, of course! – we infuse the already-chocolate brownies with weed (or ¼ pound of cannabutter in my case) to enjoy the best and the most classic edible of all time – the marijuana brownies.

1. Melt the marijuana butter (cannabutter) in a water bath, what we call “Bath Marie”. Put cannabutter into a bowl and set the bowl over the boiling water until cannabutter is melted.
2. If you use chocolate, then melt it together with cannabutter in this step. But if you use a cocoa powder then you sift it and add it into the mix in further steps.
3. Add eggs into melted cannabutter, and vanilla if you wish to enhance the taste. It’ll also decrease the smell of marijuana, but chocolate already does the job well.
4. For an extra flavor, add it to this stage along with crushed peanuts or walnut, dried orange peel, or whatever you wish.
5. Mix all well.
6. Add dry ingredients carefully one by one: sugar, flour, and baking powder, continuously stirring at a slow pace. You should see a quasi-homogeneous substance in a bowl.
7. Put the parched paper on a tray, and grease it with cannabutter slightly.
8. Pour the contents of your bowl, and spread it evenly.
9. Bake at 350 F, equals 180-200 C, for 20-30 minutes.
10. If all is done properly, you’ll get the crust well visualized.
11. Check the readiness with a toothpick – pin it into the middle of your brownie while the latter is still in the oven. Your brownie is not ready until the toothpick goes out clear of brownie particles!
12. Cool at room temperature before serving.

How to use cannabutter to make brownies?

To use the cannabutter for weed brownies we mind the dosage. If you are an experienced stoner for life, you have nothing to be afraid of, but the overdose is easy to be reached when you deal with edibles (especially for the first time). You risk just spoiling the attempt, sadly losing the valuable butter, if you put a highly condensed cannabutter into the weed brownie mix – read more about dosage in the cannabutter post. If you need less cannabutter for sake of dosage, then mix it with regular butter.

Cannabutter

Tips on making the best cannabis brownies

• Do not over-beat the eggs. Otherwise, the eggs once over-beaten allow the excess air into the mix, then you risk your weed brownies becoming more like a cake, rather than being chewy.
• Do not heat any edible, this chocolate weed brownie included, higher than 350 F, which equals 180-200 C because the heat may destroy THC and you get only brownies and no high.
• Sift all dry ingredients, they are flour or cocoa, this will make the whole mix better mixed, and add oxygen to flour and other powders that you sift. Sifting shall ease the whole process, you better believe it, or you try both ways.
• Choose chocolate, or cocoa, with love and care, do not allow any foreign ingredients in it. Using pure chocolate (70% and up) for weed brownies will result in candy-like weed brownies, but using pure 100% cocoa will make your brownie a fudge. Try either way.
• It may sound too obvious, but the often mistake is – the brownie should be brown. Wrong chocolate or cocoa may give another color, it may be one tone into red, or invisibly greenish, but it is not right. Chocolate in chocolate weed brownie is the most important ingredient.

Enjoy.

The Guide on Pacman ghosts and their Strategies against you

Wed, 01/Jul/20

This info-graphic guide on Pacman ghosts behavior is totally a dope piece of funny, useful information. Hope, you will enjoy applying it for building your game strategies, developing your tricks and mastering the best practices. This open-source replica of the original Pacman game offers the classic high-strung game-play, which does not aim to keep you playing but wants to swipe you out. This guide is to help you get into the retro gaming and survive longer over there.

You maybe noticed playing Pacman that the red ghost tries to catch you more aggressively than the others do. He is not tacking around but tries to hunt you straight by the shortest route. Tough! Read on.

Blinky

Blinky is a red ghost, originally named Shadow. He is red by the reason he is the most aggressive one. When you are running around at high speed, keep an eye on this one. Blinky follows the algorithm is to chase you at all cost.

Pinky

Pinky is a pink female ghost, named Speedy in the first version of the game. She applies the strategy to surround and ambush. Expect, she wants to avoid a direct collision, use her strength as her weakness wisely when running away from Blinky.

Inky

Inky was once Bashful, he is a cyan ghost. He can chase Pacman at full pace but may also wander away. Unpredictable is his plan, also dependable on Blinky in this version of the Pacman game. Check out the info-graphics. Inky is reckoned the smartest one.

Clyde

Clyde was Pokey in the original version. The orange dude. Expect he will act stupid as far as rushing upon you, then suddenly jump into the wrong direction losing the whole chase.

Pacman is a classic arcade game from the 1980’s golden age of video-games. For the first time the world has seen Pacman, released by the Japanese game studio Bandai Namco. The game just passed its 30th anniversary a few years ago. Industry professionals and passionate gamers reckon Pacman the most influential game of all time.

Clean Bong or Smoking Pipe Like A Pro

Tue, 09/Jul/19

HOW TO CLEAN A BONG problem, of course, it is a problem. Any shining brand-new or even a wooden pipe start crying for cleansing soon enough.

Remember This Guy?

Colonel Hans Landa’s Remarkable Pipe from “Inglourious Basterds” motion picture: rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious_basterds

Also Remember That Smoking Kills:

Lieutenant Aldo Raine (on right) from “Inglourious Basterds” motion picture: rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious_basterds

After few days or weeks of use any cool shining bong is no more transparent and after few days more it is damn not transparent. Someone say we can scrub it to keep it for a rainy day, don’t be that far ridiculous. Anyway now we want to clean it to its original glory.

Love Yourself

This is rule number one, as always, do not clean it with anything not-drinkable and not-eatable. And especially when it’s wood as keep a lot of cleaning material inside its nooks and crannies.

Cleaning Is Easy

It is like a small discovery: use alcohol. Pure and strong one, like vodka. And not any whisky or cognac or alike, they all contain a lot of extras in the blend, smells, alien oils, etc, just more a pure one will work the best for cleaning. Just a reminder a famous bong replacement if the bong is out of order is a coca-cola can, works well.

Directions

Pour alcohol inside and it’ll react with gras leaving neither gras nor itself, more or less so, by the same reason it perfectly cleans pretty everything and fly away pretty instantly. Then only wash it off with amount of water. Considering a tricky structure of a bong and a hard accessibility of wooden pipe’s parts, it may require open mind to invent the proper way to wash.