Same here. I have so far made two batches of canna coconut oil, taking care to decarb the bud in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees, before pouring it into the croc pot for a nice long 8-hour simmer in the coconut oil, with water added to absorb all the chlorophyll and bad taste, and keep it from getting too hot.
I have only ever gotten sleepy from the resultant oil I produce, even though I QUADRUPLED the amount of buds used in my second batch, such that the resultant canna oil is a beautiful lime green color. I so wish I could catch a decent buzz from ingesting oil in cookies and other edibles, but sleepiness is the only effect I have observed thus far, even though I am using some quite decent sativa buds that get me good and high if smoked in the usual manner.
The minute I saw the guides for canna oil production posted in this forum, I knew that ingesting THC in foods is the next evolutionary step up from smoking weed, since all the health detriments of breathing in smoke are bypassed by going the edibles way.
Not being able to get a noticeable buzz from eating food made with extracts from weed disappointing for sure, but I also noticed a side-effect of eating canna oil by the teaspoon or in cookies, that I want to run by y'all to see if anyone else has experienced anything similar.
What I noticed is that within a half-hour of eating canna edibles, I get a (mild) dull pain on both sides of my lower abdomen, right about where the kidneys and liver are located, and that pain stays with me until a day or so after I stop eating the edibles. I understand from this forum that THC is processed by the liver when edibles are consumed, and that got me wondering if the liver is any way taxed by that function of metabolizing THC, such that a dull pain would be felt after the consumption of canna edibles, by SOME unlucky people.
Any thoughts on my musings here would be much appreciated. I sure would like to say farewell to the smoking of weed, by moving on to the much more stealthy realm of eating cookies and such to get high, but my efforts to create canna oil and edibles that do the job have so far failed, though not for lack of trying to get it right.
