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Magic Brownie

Cannabis or hashish can be cooked into a sweet cake, cookie, brownie, or other baked product to produce a psychoactive food. These items may be known as a hash brownie, magic cake, special brownie, magic brownie, space brownie, weed cake or space cake. It is usually prepared by using oil or butter which has previously been used to extract the active ingredient from the cannibis.

Eating such a food can result in a similar psychoactive effect or "high" as smoking marijuana, although it may be delayed or mitigated due to slower absorption of the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) through the digestive tract. Some believe it imparts a smoother "high". However there are many accounts of stronger, sometimes frightening, longer lasting highs resulting from eating cannabis. Whereas the effects from smoking cannabis are usually felt within a few minutes, it can take up to a few hours to get high from ingesting it.

Contrary to smoking, where one can feel the high coming gradually; the way the THC is digested can result in a significantly stronger high that can last for hours. Products containing cannabis are widely available in cannabis coffee shops in the Netherlands (and various European cities), where consumption use of marijuana is effectively legal.

• The brownie was used in the 1968 film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a character portrayed by Peter Sellers becomes disillusioned with his mainstream life after falling in love with a free spirit, only to become just as disillusioned with the hippie subculture. Marijuana-spiked brownies are a key plot element.
• In "Garage Sale" - the second season premiere of the FOX sitcom That '70s Show - Steven Hyde makes "special brownies" that end up being consumed by Red, Kitty, Midge and Bob.
• In the movie Eurotrip, Scotty, played by Scott Mechlowicz, and Jenny, played by Michelle Trachtenberg eat some brownies in a Dutch bake shop that they assume are hash brownies and "suffer" the symptoms. They learn, however, that the brownies contain no cannabis, much to their embarrassment.
• Ethan Embry's character in the film Empire Records consumes hash brownies while watching television.
• In the movie Never Been Kissed, Josie eats a load of pot brownies.
• In the movie How High, the Chancellor of Harvard University and his wife unknowingly consume large amounts of brownies mixed with marijuana, causing them to act silly at a Halloween costume party later that night.
• In the movie Can't Hardly Wait, the stoner character played by Eric Balfour is eating hash brownies with his friends when his female friend feels tricked and throws her hash brownie at Lauren Ambrose's hair, where it sticks. Eric Balfour's character runs over to the thrown hash brownie and licks it off her head, saying, "I don't wanna waste any."
• In the movie Dick, Kirsten Dunst's character unknowingly makes hash brownies for President Nixon and his cabinet. (She believes the hash is "walnut leaves")
• In the HBO series Oz, the character Stan Burkowsky makes marijuana brownies for the Homeboys in season six before being killed by the Italians.
• In an episode of My Name is Earl, Earl Hickey remembers about the time he switched Crabman's pot brownies with actual brownies. After dissatisfied customers found out they were eating real brownies (i.e. "I had to listen to a Phish album...it sucked!"), they stoned him "biblically".
• In an episode of Grounded for Life, Henry's Working for the Drug Squad, Sean Finnerty eats cannabis brownie batter, still containing the seeds. He stumbles to his backyard and throws up. A marijuana plant grows in the puke.

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• The Straight Dope column on Alice B. Toklas brownies (includes original text of recipe)
• Erowid.com recipes for cooking with cannabis, including Cannabis Brownies and Hash Brownies