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What do you imagine when you think of a marijuana edible? Probably a brownie, cookie, gummy, or chocolate bar. If you’re the type of person that requires a high dose of THC to get high, you might have to put on a few pounds or risk diabetes just to get high with sweet edibles. Some people don’t want to inhale any form of marijuana but may also be on a diet or opposed to sweets. Your dentist will probably be hype you ate a whole bag of extra sweet marijuana lozenges just to get high but you should know there are other options. Fortunately, with the rising popularity of legal marijuana, savory edible options are becoming more abundant. This is good news for those of us with less of a sweet tooth.
Here are some savory instead of sweet edible options.
Potzo Ball Soup by Jeff the 420 Chef
A twist on the traditional Jewish soup dumpling made from a mixture of matzah meal, eggs, water, and a fat, such as oil, margarine, or chicken fat.” By adding canna-olive oil to the mix, you’ll have a savory cannabis-infused matzo ball soup in no time. It takes about 40 minutes to prep the meal and an hour and 30 minutes to cook it.
The sweet cannabis candies are marketed to a younger “stoner” crowd but there are now several options of edibles that appeal to more than just 21 year old men. You can find out the ingredients and cooking instructions for this recipe and others on Jeffthe420chef.com
Get Baked Beans
There are multiple ways to make this dish. You can spend 8 hours rinsing and soaking dry beans or you can just open up a can of premade beans and add cannabutter into the mix. If you’re a food critic you may want to make the beans the long way but if the closest you’ve come to culinary excellence is scrambled eggs you may want to go with option B. The ingredients and instructions for all methods can be found at the link above.
Hot Buttery Cannabiscuits
You should be able to prep and bake some hot buttery cannabiscuits in less than an hours time. If you’ve got access to cannabis oil in it’s solid form, you can have the ultimate breakfast wake and bake. The ingredients and instructions are all in the link above.
Medicated Hot Wings
You can make medicated hot wings in the same way you make regular hot wings. The beauty of cannabutter is any recipe that uses butter can be infused with marijuana. Just use cannabutter in the place of butter when making your hot wings and you’ll have em ready in no time.
If you don’t even want to make your own hot wings you can just order wings from wherever, even a chinese food spot, then add medicated hot sauce to it in the same way you would add tabasco to a dish.
If you like spice and want something savory that can be added to nearly any dish you can use medicated hot sauce. Just pay attention to the dosage, don’t use a 500mg bottle of hot sauce to soak a bowl of wings. A few squirts out of the bottle should do the trick no need to incapacitate yourself for several hours.
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Some inexperienced smokers who get really stoned when they smoke feel as though they can’t accomplish any tasks like running. Most daily smokers who have tried running while high would report that it is still quite possible. Some even believe it enhances the experience. There is also research on cannabis and running revealed anti-inflammatory effects. There were also reports of stress and muscle pain reduction, according to exercise physiologist Dr. Scott Weiss. So basically you’ll be in a better mood to run and the exercise should cause less damage while high.
Meet some stoned-runners 
If you need more evidence that running and marijuana can go hand in hand, there’s a stoned-running club in New Orleans called Vapor Apollo. The founder of the group claims that running while high “encourages attention to detail and makes running less boring.” They’d like to “kill that stereotype of weed and laziness, if possible.”
Jasmine, a 27-year-old smoke shop owner who gets high before every run agreed. She was 60 pounds heavier four years prior and knew she needed to make a change. She hated running and team sports.
“No matter what anyone tells you, running is very uncomfortable,” she says. “It’s a constant battle to keep yourself moving forward. Long story short, I hated running and I happen to know that marijuana is a great way to get myself to do the things that I don’t really want to do.”
One ultra-marathon runner Jeff Sperber has had three surgeries and stage four arthritis in his toe. He has a prescription pain medication but prefers not to use it because he claims, “I can’t do that stuff and function as a normal human being.” However, he says “as a weed smoker, I can function.”
Another ultra-marathon runner, Avery Collins says, “it’s pretty simple. I enjoy going on runs when I’m high. He said that cannabis does not grant him a competitive advantage but it makes practicing for long races more enjoyable and calms his muscles post-run. So athletes aren’t using marijuana as a performance enhancing drug when running. They’re just using it when they’re not competing.
Combination of runners high and marijuana high
According to a study published online, the same neurotransmitter that makes the body relaxed is triggered by both exercise and ingesting marijuana.
“Exercise causes the body to produce a particular neurotransmitter that makes the body relaxed-the same one triggered by smoking marijuana”
“When volunteers exercise for 30 minutes, the level of endocannabinoid anandamide in their bloodstream goes up.”
Dr. Johannes Fuss, researcher at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, auhored a study that found “emotional benefits after acute exercise, often termed as a runner’s high.” Much like THC exercise causes anandamide to work with the endocannabinoid system affecting emotions. People who experience a runners high report feelings of euphoria much like smokers of sativa cannabis strains.
In conclusion
There are currently no definitive studies on marijuana’s performance enhancing effects. The World Anti-Doping Agency said in 2013, the level of acceptable marijuana in an athlete’s system was increased so that out of competition use would not disqualify anyone. So far any use before a sporting event is still forbidden. However, marijuana can aid runners outside of competition with motivation and pain relief.