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Edibles are the category people get wrong most often, and almost always for the same reason. They do not behave like anything else on this menu. Cannadreams stocks gummies, chocolates, chews, mints and baked goods, delivered free to every Manhattan neighborhood and available for pickup at 862 9th Ave.
When you inhale cannabis, THC crosses from your lungs into your bloodstream in a couple of minutes. When you eat it, it goes through your stomach and then your liver first. Your liver converts a good portion of it into a related compound, 11-hydroxy-THC, before it ever reaches your bloodstream.
That conversion is the whole story. It is why an edible takes longer to arrive, why it lasts several hours rather than one or two, and why the character of it feels heavier and more physical than smoking the same amount. It is not a stronger version of a joint. It is a different experience with a different clock.
Onset is typically thirty minutes to two hours. On an empty stomach it can be quicker. After a large meal it can be slower still. The peak usually lands somewhere between two and four hours in, and the tail can run six to eight hours or longer at higher doses.
The mistake is redosing at the forty five minute mark because nothing has happened yet. Then the first dose arrives, the second arrives on top of it, and an evening that was meant to be pleasant becomes something to sit through. Take one dose. Wait two full hours. Only then decide.
New York caps a single serving at 10mg THC and a package at 100mg. That structure is useful, because it makes the ladder easy.
If you have never had an edible, start at 2.5mg. If you are new but not nervous, 5mg is reasonable. Ten milligrams is a standard single serving and a comfortable dose for most people with some tolerance. Twenty five and above is for experienced consumers who already know how their body handles it. Regular smokers frequently discover their inhalation tolerance does not transfer, so do not assume it will.
Cutting a gummy in half is entirely fine and is the sensible way to find your number.
Plenty of our stock is not straight THC. A 1:1 product carries equal CBD and THC. Higher CBD ratios, 5:1 or 20:1, carry proportionally more. CBD is not intoxicating on its own, and many people find a ratio product produces a gentler, more even experience than THC alone at the same milligram count. If a straight 10mg has previously been too much, a 1:1 is worth trying before writing edibles off.
You will also see CBN and CBG in the cabinet, usually in evening formulations. They are minor cannabinoids and the effects are subtler than the marketing suggests, so judge them on your own experience.
Anything absorbed partly through the mouth arrives sooner. Mints, lozenges and hard candies held rather than chewed can begin working faster. Chocolates and baked goods, with more fat, tend to be slower and longer. Fast acting gummies use emulsion technology to shorten onset, sometimes to fifteen or twenty minutes, and the packaging will say so plainly.
Keep chocolates cool. Keep everything, without exception, away from children and pets, in the original child resistant packaging.
Nothing about an edible is urgent, which makes it the easiest thing on this menu to have brought to you. We cover the entire island.
Start uptown. Washington Heights by Fort Tryon Park and Highbridge, East Harlem around La Marqueta and Thomas Jefferson Park, and Central Harlem by the Apollo and Striver's Row. Across to the Upper East Side through Yorkville and Museum Mile, and the Upper West Side by the Museum of Natural History and Riverside Park.
Through the middle, Midtown around Bryant Park and Herald Square, Midtown East by Sutton Place and Beekman, Hell's Kitchen along Restaurant Row, and Chelsea by Little Island and Chelsea Market.
Then the bottom of the island. Greenwich Village around Washington Square and NYU, the East Village through Alphabet City, SoHo and TriBeCa down to Duane Park, and the Financial District from Stone Street to Battery Park.
Free above $35, prepaid online by debit card or bank transfer through Aeropay, since New York does not permit cash payments to delivery drivers. Have your ID ready when the driver arrives.
Collect at 862 9th Ave, or just come in. If you are buying edibles for the first time, come in. Getting the dose right is a two minute conversation and it makes the difference between enjoying the evening and enduring it. In store we accept cash, debit and Aeropay.
Licensed by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management under OCMCAURD-2022-000407. Everything lab tested, everything batch tracked. Twenty percent off a first order with code CANNADREAMS20 on orders of $100 or more.
