Several years ago I was featured in Johanna Silver’s book “Growing Cannabis in the Garden”, featuring my infused chocolate sauce recipe. I have vivid memories of a photo shoot in my little backyard and kitchen to show the steps for making this sauce. Naturally, the team of folks there had to sample the sauce while we were making it for the shoot. So good! But later that day, after we’d decamped for our respective homes, I got word that folks were still high from the shoot – like HIGH high. Really? How? Well, as it turns out, the sauce was pretty darn potent. When I published the recipe in my book “The Cannabis Gardener”, I toned it down by 1/2, and offered suggestions for fine-tuning the dose to make it a fun experience for the chocolate-loving consumer.

Fast forward to last month. I made a batch of my infused chocolate sauce and jarred it in small, gold lidded glass to offer as a special thank you for a recent fundraiser I did for Last Prisoner Project. Since these jars were going to folks who may be less experienced with cannabis infused treats, I made the sauce a little less strong than I published in The Cannabis Gardener. But I wanted a bit more clarity on how much THC was in any given jar to avoid any unpleasant surprises. Luckily for me, I had already done the math on the particular batch of cannaoil that I used in the chocolate sauce. Using these calculations I figured out that the 1/4 cup jars of chocolate sauce had between 20 – 30 mg of THC in them. That surprised me! While a typical serving of this sauce is about 2TB, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to enjoy the whole jar. And for most folks 30 mg of THC is a lot. All to say that I’m still learning.

Particularly with edibles, it’s important to have a ballpark estimate of the amount of cannabinoids in a serving of your creations — particularly with THC. Edibles take up to an hour to kick in, and can last for 6 -8 hours or more, particularly when in a fat-based recipe. So I still love this sauce. I just measure a little more carefully now.