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Welcome back, friends
, to episode 303, and today we
are talking about traveling andedibles.
Welcome to Bite Me, the showabout edibles, where I help you
take control of your high life.
I'm your host and certifiedgonger, margaret, and I love
helping cooks make safe andeffective edibles at home.
I'm so glad you're here andwelcome back, friends, to the
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podcast that explores theintersection of food culture and
cannabis.
I help cooks make great ediblesat home.
Thank you for being here.
I'm so glad that you decided tojoin me today for this
travel-filled episode, and Iguess travel is on my mind
because I just got back fromCamp Cana.
I decided to wait to record thisepisode until after Camp Cana
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because I really wanted to talka bit about my experience,
because I knew it was going tobe a good one, and I almost
didn't go this year.
Can you believe it?
I almost didn't go because Iwent last year with Anne Alchin.
Some of you may recognize thatname.
She is the author of Butter andFlour and Stoned, both two
beautiful cookbooks, if youdon't already have them, and
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what makes them so unique isthat they are interspersed.
The recipes are interspersedwith stories from the cannabis
community, and Anne is a lovelyhuman being and we went last
year.
It was sort of a last minutething, but we went last year.
It was sort of a last minutething, but we went last year and
spent quite a bit of timepalling around during Camp Cana
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and she told me this year thatshe wouldn't be able to go, that
there was a conflict and shewas unable to attend.
So I decided I almost didn't go.
And then Alexis, who is thefounder, I believe, of Camp Cana
I should probably have her onthe show one of these days sent
me a message and she convincedme to go and I'm so glad that I
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did.
I had such a great time.
It was really cool because therewas a number of people that had
been there last year that werecoming again and we shared the
same cabin again.
This year there was at leastover double the numbers as last
year.
For sure there was definitely abigger crowd, but that didn't
really take away from theintimate feel of the entire
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experience all weekend.
It was so much fun.
I did some archery.
There was rock climbing.
I didn't do the rock climbingbut I cheered the people on who
were doing the rock climbing.
There was time spent down atthe water, there were campfires,
there was live music, there wasnight vendors.
The food in the mess hall wasfabulous Three squares a day.
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Did I mention karaoke?
We have fabulous weather, whichall this spring the weather's
been a little iffy, but theweather ended up being really
beautiful.
It was still a little cool atnight, but the daytime
temperatures were perfect.
Lots of coffee, tons of weed ofall kinds that you could imagine
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and, remarkably, there was alsoseveral non-consumers there as
well.
They were just there to supportthe cannabis community and
people in their lives that doconsume cannabis.
Such a great experience.
And, of course, the settingitself was a camp in Halliburton
and there was very little cellreception.
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So what I ended up doing wasturning my phone off for the
entire Saturday.
I just left it in the cabin,turned it off and thought you
know what?
I'm just going to enjoy theexperience, and I'm so glad that
I did because, honestly, itkept me off my phone and paying
attention to what was happeningright in front of me, right
around me, and I met a lot ofwonderful people, some from last
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year, some brand new faces andnames to learn.
But it was such a great weekendand I'm really glad that I ended
up going, which is what hasgotten me thinking a bit more
also about traveling this summerand many people whether you're
just doing some, you know, daytrips checking out local
attractions that oftentimes whenyou're from a place you never
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end up checking them out thatcan be actually a pretty fun way
to spend some time in your owntown or city, because we tend to
not experience our places wherewe live as a tourist might, and
so some of those landmarkthings that make your place
unique are often not visited.
So I mean, there's that and I'mhopefully going.
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I will be doing a road tripthis summer with a friend to
another province myself.
It just got me thinking thathow in the summer, we are always
traveling more often than wemight otherwise, although in the
wintertime I think everyCanadian is hoping to get out of
the cold, cold weather, to goto someplace hot and sunny, but
that's not always feasible.
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So this is what has gotten methinking about traveling while
infused.
It's always good to have somesome ideas and suggestions for
how to do it best.
So before we get into it, I amgoing to give a big shout out to
ellie from australia, whorecently bought me some cookies
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on.
Buy me a cookie.
Thank you so much.
Gestures like that are reallymeaningful to me and it does
help to support the show,because there are, of course,
ongoing costs to running apodcast like this one, and, as
well, I am going to pick a cardfrom the Stoner Trivia deck.
In Bhutan, marijuana grows wildand is mainly used by whom?
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Adults, teenagers or animals.
In Bhutan, marijuana grows wildand is mainly used by whom?
Adults, teenagers or animalsand if you guessed, animals,
that would be the correct answer.
I think I need to do a littleresearch on this.
I have no idea where Bhutan is.
That is a obvious shortcomingin my geography.
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I need to look that up andverify.
That sounds really interestingto think that all the animals in
Bhutan are getting high aregetting high.
Now, today's episode I'm sharinghow I travel with edibles, what
I pack, how I stay discreet andtips to make sure your infused
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treats go.
Wherever you go, and whetheryou're headed to the cottage, a
weekend getaway, a staycation ora full-on vacation, we can make
sure that you stay deliciouslyelevated as best you can.
Some conditions may apply, solet's start with the golden rule
when it comes to traveling withedibles, which is to keep it
simple and discreet, and I haveseveral go-to travel-friendly
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edibles that I like to take withme, and some of these are going
to seem pretty obvious.
But the first one is gummies orhard candies, and mainly
because they're so easy toportion, they're not messy, they
don't raise eyebrows, I cansash them in a resealable pouch.
You're not going to go and getthem out and find them to be a
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big melted mess, like you mightwith, say, something like
chocolate.
So that's one that I reallylike to have on hand when I'm
traveling.
The next one would be infusedhoney sticks or sugar packets,
which is great for mixing intodrinks.
They're also lightweight andcompact.
One drawback is you pretty muchneed to buy those at a
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dispensary.
So if they're not handyalthough you could technically
make your own sugar packetssomehow, I've never done that or
you could just make infusedsugar and make sure you dose it
and know how much per teaspoonat least, so you know how much
you're dosing yourself.
The next one is nut butters orsnack bars, and I mean you can
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do store-bought.
I don't know.
I'm trying to think are therethat many bars on the market in
dispensaries?
There might be, but I find theissue, of course, in Canada in
particular, is that they arelimited to 10 milligrams.
Nut butters are pretty easy toinfuse as well.
I've done them before.
I'll link to those in the shownotes and things like snack bars
which I made protein energyballs to bring with me to Camp
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Cana and I infused them and Ihad a bag of them so that I
could share them.
Canna, and I infused them and Ihad a bag of them so that I
could share them, enjoy themmyself.
I got there and they were likeyes, remember, this is a
nut-free camp and I don't knowhow I didn't remember that when
I was making these because Iused peanut butter in them.
So I had to take them out to mycar and leave them there for
the weekend and I ate one beforethis podcast now I'm feeling it
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.
But otherwise those can be areally great snack to bring, as
long as you are making them withthe awareness that may prevent
you from enjoying them incertain places, like the camp
that I was at over the weekend.
But otherwise they're usuallypretty good and of course
there's all kinds of differentrecipes for those that travel.
Well, they may still need a bitof refrigeration, so depending.
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But if you're going actuallyout for like a day hike or
something like that, they can begreat because they do.
They're nutritionally dense andprovide a lot of energy.
And another thing that I dooccasionally buy are capsules.
Now I do.
I've been wanting to make anepisode on making capsules
myself too, but I haven't doneit yet, in part because I would
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need to buy the actual capsulemaking machine, which I don't
think is actually that expensive, but it's just a whole thing
that I haven't gone into yet.
But the capsules are no mess,no smell and very discreet, and
a lot of the times they looklike that you could put them in
another pill bottle.
No one would really thinkanything of it.
So those are some of the mosttravel-friendly edibles that you
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can bring with you Gummies,hard candies, infused honey or
sugar packets, nut butters andenergy bars and capsules.
Now, as far as packing them goes, I often will label them
innocuously or not label them atall or put them in some other
kind of container, like thecapsules, for instance, you
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could just put in, maybe like acontainer for some other vitamin
or something like that that isotherwise empty.
I just prefer to keep theminnocuous, because I don't know
when you're traveling.
You're on the road justsometimes.
I think it's better to keepsome of these things to yourself
.
Choose no melt options.
Obviously skip the chocolate ifyou're going somewhere warm,
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but bring only what you'llconsume.
I think it's best to probablynot overpack your stash and if
you run out, well, sometimes itcan be an adventure to find more
, and that'll always, of course,depend on where you're
traveling.
If I'm traveling somewhere elsein Canada, I am blessed to know
that most of the jurisdictionsI'm going to are going to have
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an overabundance of cannabisstores, within easy walking
distance most likely.
So there is the I mean, I guessI can't say that for more rural
parts of the country, but mostplaces have a dispensary.
Now you could be in otherplaces where it's not so cut and
dried as that, but that's awhole other conversation.
So dosing while traveling startlower than usual, especially if
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you're dealing with altitude,alcohol or new environments.
Set and setting is so oftentalked about when it comes to
mushrooms, but this applies justas much, I think, to consuming
cannabis and with edibles inparticular.
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So start with a lower thannormal dose and see how you
react, and you can adjustdepending on the day as well.
So if you're pretty new toedibles or you're brand new to
edibles, I would alwaysrecommend starting at about a
couple of milligrams and goingfrom there and, of course,
working your way up.
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Now, when it comes to the legalside of things, it is important
to know the rules of thecannabis rules for the places
where you're going.
Some places, obviously, arecannabis friendly and others not
so much.
If you're flying within Canada,I just be discreet Personal
amounts are generally fine.
It's good to check theregulation, but I have flown
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with cannabis and edibles withinCanada without issue because
it's federally legal here.
I would never travelinternationally with cannabis,
even if it's legal in bothplaces.
Having said that, I havetraveled with edibles before and
I don't necessarily I don'tadvocate for this, but I do find
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that personally, the risk islikely lower with edibles that
are unmarked, and I mean itlooked like I was coming back
from a place with chocolate andthat was it.
It was infused chocolate, butthere would be no way of
actually knowing that withouttesting it or eating it and
finding out later.
But I would personally althoughI know people who have said
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otherwise I would also never flywith actual flour because I
feel like it's it's riskier in alot of ways because that smell,
that dank, dank smell, justwants to escape.
I never travel internationallywith flour, which makes it
interesting to sometimes try andfind it in the place that
you're going, and that's aninteresting way to meet people
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and I have also done that.
When I was in Germany I neededto find some flour and I did,
and I made a new friend and thatwas really cool.
You know told me a bit aboutthe city that I wouldn't have
otherwise known.
It was just cool to hang outwith a local and somebody who
understood the city as someonewho had been living there for
like 20 odd years or somethinglike that.
So other travel essentials thatI bring I bring my own infused
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tea bags or honey sticks, a ministash pouch which keeps
everything together and out ofsight.
And when I did fly to Germany Ialso brought a I think at the
time it was an Ardent Nova,because they suggested that
buying, uh using an adapter forthe Ardent cause.
I was just going to bring theArdent with me to make edibles
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while I was overseas, which Idid do, and they suggested that
was not a great idea because the220 volt I wasn't really
prepared for how strong thatwould, how different that would
be when I was in Germany.
But I definitely noticed itwhen I remember the first time I
plugged in my hairdryer and Iwas just like holy the power.
But in any case I brought anArdent Nova with me because it
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had a 220 volt outlet and theysaid that was better, provided
better performance.
But I typically wouldn'tnecessarily be traveling with an
infusion device.
But it is possible to do and ofcourse I've made.
When you find edibles overseasyou can also make edibles.
And I will note when I was inGermany it had just become legal
.
So it was sort of a interestinggray area at the time because
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it had been legal as of April1st and I I was there for the
month of April.
So infused travel doesn't needto be complicated.
It just takes a little planningand common sense and odds are,
if you're planning some kind oftrip then you're going to be
doing some planning anyway.
So just plan for what you'regoing to be doing with your
travel.
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Another thing I do also like tobring this is an honorable
mention, because sometimes theycan get a little pricey is.
I do enjoy drinks from thedispensaries.
That's one of the things that Ido like to buy in dispensaries,
because I can get a buzz off ofa beverage that I would never
get the buzz off of from anactual edible.
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The actual edibles are reallyhandy, like when I went to Camp
Can.
I brought some gummies, but theinfused drinks are great.
They're also great if you're inany places where people might
be drinking and you don't wantto be seen without something in
your hand lest you have toanswer too many questions.
So, whether you're roadtripping, flying out, edibles
can absolutely come along forthe ride.
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Do you have a favorite edibletravel tip?
Did I miss anything?
This is why I typically don'trecord when I'm high, because I
tend to forget things.
I miss anything.
This is why I typically don'trecord when I'm high, because I
tend to forget things.
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So pack light, dose smart andtake a bite out of your next
adventure.
I am your host, margaret, anduntil next week, my friends,
stay high.