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Cannabis edibles can be almost anything your taste buds desire, from brownies to cookies, pasta, and more \u2014 any recipe that calls for butter or oil can be readily infused with cannabis. <\/span>How did edibles get so popular? Where did they come from? Learn all about cannabis edibles, and try your hand at making your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tHistory of edibles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The history behind THC edibles is a fascinating one. Historians have traced modern-day edibles back to 1500 BCE in India, where people prepared a beverage known as bhang by combining ground buds and leaves, ghee (clarified butter), and spices.<\/span> As time went on, cannabis climbed in popularity across Europe, spurring the 15th-century Italian scholar Bartolomeo Platina to publish the very first cookbook, \u201cOn Honorable Pleasure and Health (1474),\u201d which featured a cannabis edible recipe that read:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo make cannabis yourself more commonly used as flax for thread, use a mallet to crush clods collected after a good harvest. Add cannabis to nard oil in an iron pot, crush together over some heat and liquefy into a health drink of cannabis nectar. Carefully treat food and divide for the stomach and the head. Finally, remember everything in excess may be harmful or criminal.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t

\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Hands\n\t\t\t<\/a>Photo by: Gina Coleman\/Weedmaps<\/cite>
Eating cannabis has led to a burst of creativity in many kitchens and cookbooks. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\t\t\t