These satisfying cannabis-infused biscuits and gravy are a great way to medicate in the morning. These step-by-step directions will help you make the most delicious Southern Style Biscuits and Sausage Gravy.
*This recipe is designed for high tolerance users. Lower tolerance users who make this recipe should substitute regular butter for cannabis-butter in the biscuits recipe.
Strains suggested for use in cannabis-butter & marijuana milk recipes:
Afghan Kush • Ghost Train Haze • Agent Orange • XJ 13
Ingredients
Buttermilk Biscuits
- 2 1/2 cups self-rising flour (OR 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 3 1/4 teaspoons baking powder, and 3/8 teaspoon salt if you do not have self-rising flour)
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
- 4 tablespoons cannabis-butter (chilled)
- 1 cup chilled buttermilk
Sausage Gravy
- 1lb sage pork sausage
- 1/4 cup finely chopped yellow onion
- 1/3 cup flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups whole-marijuana-milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons black pepper plus more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- a pinch of cayenne pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- Prepare a floured work surface for shaping the dough and an ungreased baking sheet.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Use a fork or pastry blender to cut in the shortening and cannabis-butter. Work quickly to turn the mixture into a coarse, crumbly meal. Don’t handle directly with your hands to avoid warming the butter and shortening.
- Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the buttermilk. Stir with a spoon until the liquid is absorbed and the dough starts to pull away from the sides, adding an additional tablespoon or two of buttermilk if the dough is too dry. You want the dough to be nice an tacky.
- Use floured hands to turn the dough onto the floured work surface and fold it over on itself 2 or 3 times. Shape into a 3/4″ round. Use a 2″ biscuit butter and cut out the biscuits, pressing straight down (not twisting).
- Place the biscuits on the baking sheet so they just barely touch. Reshape the dough scraps and continue cutting until there is no more dough left. Set aside.
- Place a saucepan on the stove over medium-high heat.
- Once the pan is hot, crumble the sausage unto the pan and let it brown for a minute or two then turn down the heat to medium. Break the sausage into smaller pieces while it cooks until there is no more pink. Stir in the onions and cook until they are transparent.
- Add the biscuits to the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes. They are done when edges are golden brown.
- Sprinkle half the flour over the sausage, and stir until it is all soaked up. Add a little more just before the sausage starts to look too dry.
- Stir it around and cook for another minute or so, then pour all 4 cups of milk (2 cups whole milk & 2 cups whole-marijuana-milk), stirring constantly.
- Cook the gravy, stirring constantly until the gravy thickens. Sprinkle in the spices (salt, pepper, nutmeg, poultry seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper) and continue cooking until the gravy is thick and velvetty. If it gets too thick, splash in 1/2 cup of milk. Taste and adjust the seasonings.
Serves: 10-12
Once the gravy is finished and the biscuits are cooked, top the biscuits with the gravy. Serve immediately.
Thank You: MassRoots
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Marijuana is a brain-booster
A
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Marijuana is virtually non-addictive
The
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users, in contrast.
There have been zero deaths on record from marijuana overdose
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Thank You: The Medicinal Marijuana Association
In early 2014, the BBC reported that
a 31-year-old woman, Gemma Moss, “died as a result of cannabis
poisoning.” The real shocker, however, isn’t Moss’ death, but rather the
fact that she had smoked only half a joint.
One of the most ambiguous, yet frequently lobbed criticisms of
cannabis is the fact that it is “dangerous.” Despite this fear
mongering, until more robust research is conducted, the long-term
effects of cannabis on the human brain and nervous system will remain in
debate.
A 2009 study
from American Scientist regarding the toxicity of recreational drugs
provides some interesting numbers. The study revealed that using only 10
times the “effective” dose of alcohol can be fatal. However, in the
case of cannabis, 1,000 times the effective dose is necessary to achieve
a fatal dose (a ratio 100 times greater than that of alcohol).
One of the most common methods by which the “danger” inherent in a
particular drug is objectively measured within the medical community is
the rate at which it kills those who consume it. This is measured by
something called the LD-50 rating, which indicates the dosage necessary
to kill 50 percent of test animals “as a result of drug induced
toxicity.”
n a 1988 ruling,
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young detailed the amount of
cannabis necessary to achieve a level of toxicity that might cause death
in humans:
“At present it is estimated that marijuana’s LD-50 is
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of French researchers who have discovered the presence of a natural
hormone that reverses marijuana intoxication — in rats, at least.
According to the researchers, “When the [rat] brain is stimulated by
high doses of THC, it produces pregnenolone — a 3,000 percent increase
— that inhibits the effects of THC.”
It’s sad when an otherwise reputable media outlet like the BBC
succumbs to the ignorance of decades of global cannabis prohibition.
Regardless of a reader’s stance on medical or recreational marijuana, a
firm grasp of the facts is necessary to overcome an abundance of
misinformation — sometimes even from mainstream media.
In the words of the DEA’s own Judge Young: “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.”
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