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Dear Stoner: We all know about the “walk outside” before Thanksgiving dinner, and I’ve seen a lot of recipes for infusing Thanksgiving dishes with weed – but how do I use weed to lengthen my day of eating? I want to treat it more like a marathon, not a sprint.
Rooster Cockburn
Dear Rooster: The munchies have always been more of a marathon than a sprint for me, most cannabis users I’ve talked to, and even Major League Eating, which oversees the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4. According to the MLE, professional eating competitors aren’t tested for THC, because it doesn’t impact how fast you feast, even if it does press a few glutton buttons inside our stomachs.
If you can toke at the table, then you already have one leg up on the competition.
Jacqueline Collins
Smoking or eating weed before a true feast is a surefire way to erode discipline and energy, but have you considered toking up after the first round? The classic pre-dinner walk ‘n’ puff on Thanksgiving is about a one-time binge, but saving the joint for after the first plate will stoke the flames for seconds and reignite pumpkin pie passions.
Eating an edible fifteen or twenty minutes before the bird is ready is another way to lengthen your time at the pig trough, or you could infuse an appetizer or wash things down with a THC soda. Adding edibles to the meal won’t make you less hungry, that’s for sure. And if you’re still figuring out what to smoke on turkey day, check out this list of fifteen cannabis strains to burn on Thanksgiving.
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