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Sunday brunch with endless mimosas and from-the-can hollandaise is basic. Local coffee laced with locally grown, trimmed and prepared weed is not.
Caffeine and THC are a wonderful pair. But everyone knows you can't just add ground flowers to your beans, and not everyone wants to deal with tinctures or other food-grade cannabis oils that stick to everything.
Enter Green Chiefs. The Granite Falls, Wash., grower is well-known throughout our northern neighbor as one of the first legal edible manufacturers to get product on shelves. From trail mix to carnival nuts to a party mix, Green Chiefs' Baked Botanicals line is available state-wide, though with typical warnings about high prices and low stock apply.
Well, now they're bringing us Wake and Bake, a single-ish serving of THC-infused instant coffee crystals made from either sativa or hybrid plants. Our baggie of Folgers-style insta-joe cost $20 and is available at High End Market Place in Vancouver.
The package is labeled as containing 10 milligrams of THC, enough to get an inexperienced user a little sleepy. There's no dosage recommendation—a problem that's been identified many times, including New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's complaints after eating too much of a THC-infused chocolate in Colorado, which inspired a $75,000 advertising campaign aimed toward pot tourists. While displaying the legally required information about batch testing and THC levels is helpful, it's never a bad idea to start with a small amount and work your way up when sampling unfamiliar product.
We're experienced users, so we tried the whole package of Wake and Bake plant at once.
Flavor-wise, it's the instant coffee you remember from camp-outs past, smelling faintly of burnt caramel corn. And the speedball of caffeine and THC from a hybrid plant turned a normal weekend morning into the laziest Sunday ever.
The body high is soft but long-lasting and didn't have us snoozing while face-planted in the comics section. Bad TV is better—I plowed through some of Friends season 7 and yet another Mulaney episode—and my hash browns tasted hash-brownier. The dog should have been taken out a few hours earlier, but I got caught up on all my weekly videos, picture galleries and long-form articles, so that was a win. Coffee and weed, with no smoking or brewing necessary. Happy Sunday.
WWeek 2015