Bad information can cost you money in wasted weed and other ingredients. Bad information can cost you in wasted time spent making ineffective edibles. And bad information can undermine your confidence that it is even possible to get consistent, predictable results with edible cannabis. (Spoiler alert – it is!) But if all you are trying to do is learn how to make an edible, bad information can cause you to give up before even taking off.

For instance, one of my blog readers had to toss a big batch of marijuana oil in the trash because she had gotten the bad advice elsewhere on the internet of adding water and lecithin while infusing. The lecithin bound the fat to the water and she ended up with an unusable mess.

Another used temperatures that were way too high and ended up with nasty tasting brown butter that had almost ZERO potency.

Sometimes even information from credible sources can still end up biting you in the butt if it isn’t the right the information for you. This happened to one of my You Tube viewers who, on the recommendation of a famous cannachef, spent $500 on a marijuana cooking gadget that he not only did NOT need, it was not even capable of making the strong infusions his health conditions required. Turns out he would have been far better off just using the slow cooker he already owned.

And I have long lost count of all the bad advice about cannabis people have gotten from their friends. Unless your friends are cannabis professionals, or have decades of experience, the advice you get from your friends about edible marijuana is likely to be about as accurate as the advice you got from them about sex back in junior high school.

This happened to me when I first started learning. I got some VERY BAD dosing advice from the friend of a friend that resulted in a group of buddies sleeping through an entire 3-day music festival. Some of them still won’t touch edibles to this day!

If you ever hope to master cannabis cooking it is absolutely essential that you get in the kitchen and try your hand at making edibles BUT (and this but is so big you might as well name it Kim Kardashian), you would do yourself a HUGE favor by learning some of the basic principles of cannabis cooking first.

Doing so WILL save you both time and money as well as build your confidence about how edible cannabis can improve your life.

And edible marijuana CAN can be life changing and it offers some BIG advantages of over other ingestion methods including:

• Longer lasting – While it takes longer for you to feel the effects of marijuana edibles, they also tend to last longer. This is especially good news if you are dealing with conditions like pain, insomnia, anxiety, and more.
• Economical – Because you do not need to cook with expensive top shelf cannabis, and because the effects last so long, cannabis edibles are one of (if not THE) most economical ways to take marijuana.
• Discreet – NOBODY need know the food you are eating is infused with cannabis except you.
• Highly Customizable and Adaptable – You can add cannabis to most ANY food, not just cookies, brownies, and gummies, so you can medicate and eat the foods you like or that your dietary needs require.
• Consistent and measurable dosing — When you make your own weed edibles you can always be assured of getting the exact dose that you specifically need, time after time.
• Make foods with edible THC, edible CBD, or a full spectrum combination of full plant medicine (most recommended).

Learning to cook with cannabis is not difficult but there are some important rules and principles that MUST be learned and adhered to if you ever hope to have success with it. But with so much conflicting and bad information out there how can you learn without making costly mistakes along the way?

• The benefits you gain by making your own cannabis edibles
• What you can expect from using marijuana edibles
• Unlocking the magic of cannabinoids and terpenes

• The parts of the cannabis plant you can cook with and how to use them
• Frugal tips for using every part of the plant
• Marijuana strains and cooking: Understanding indicas, sativas, and hybrids and other strain considerations
• The importance of terpenes in cannabis cooking

• Understanding the maximum and minimum temperature parameters essential to quality THC and/or CBD edibles
• Decarboxylation: what it is, why your edibles need it, and how to do it

• Easy ways for you to master the trickiest part of cannabis cooking: dosing
• How to determine your personal ideal cannabis edibles dose
• How to determine a reasonable amount marijuana to use for your needs
• How to accurately estimate THC dosages even when using cannabis that has not been lab tested
• How to use my dosage calculator tool (included FREE with the course) to calculate the per-serving dosage of THC or CBD in any recipe you make
• How to calculate edibles dosages when cooking with cannabis concentrates like kief, hash, oils, FECO, etc. as well as with commercially made marijuana butter or oils
• How improper decarboxylation affects potency, and what to do about it
• What to do if you or someone you know eats too much marijuana

• Five foolproof methods for making marijuana infusions, in both large and small batches, without special gadgets or butter making machines
• How to infuse butter, coconut, olive and other oil, milk, cream, vegan milks, sugar, and salt with cannabis
• How to cook directly with flowers without making infusions
• Easy to make alcohol and oil tinctures
• Easy mess-free ways to drain and strain infusions
• Understanding the role of lecithin in cannabis cooking, when and when not to use it

• How to turn your personal favorite recipes into THC recipes (or CBD recipes)
• How to get the dose you need in adapted recipes

• Practical ways to improve the flavor of your homemade weed edibles
• Using terpenes for gourmet edible experiences along with maximum medical benefits

• Making sense of the confusing language of cannabis concentrates
• How to cook with kief, hash, hash oils, isolates, distillates, FECO, and RSO
• The quick and easy way to make kief

• What to expect from edible CBD
• How to recognize quality CBD products
• Effective CBD dosing
• How temperature and decarboxylation affects CBD cooking
• How to cook with CBD flowers, oils, tinctures, isolates, and distillates

• Practical considerations for anyone wanting to open a culinary cannabis business