I’ve been making cannabis-infused edibles for friends and patients for 25 years, and it’s always brought me great happiness to hear about how they provide pleasure and relief from a host of ailments. (Unless the treats are consumed in greater-than-recommended doses, in which case it’s a waking nightmare playing at half speed while the user experiences a paranoid silent scream of death on repeat, but, you know, that’s gonna happen. Did I say only eat half of one? Yes, I did. And did you eat four instead? Yes, portion-control-challenged ’murican, you did.)
The downside of this work is that infusing the oils and butters with cannabis makes my house smell like I have set fire to a cubic yard of sweaty gym clothes dipped in three-week-old sulfur-pellet cat litter. Clean up is a major drag, too—time consuming and messy.
My cooking process takes days and needs to be minded like a 12-year-old with pyromaniac tendencies. The straining of gallons of simmering oil and water mixed with a pound or more of cannabis trim is why I have patches on my hands that look like I’m a clumsy steel mill worker with depth perception issues.
So I was intrigued when I received the MagicalButter machine (magicalbutter.com), which is a true game changer for anyone seeking to make cannabis-infused butter, oils, tinctures, and topicals.