When Bulletproof Coffee Meets Cannabutter

Stoned Citizens who swear by the ketogenic diet will be all too familiar with a cup of coffee served with a spoon of butter on the inside. Known as a bulletproof coffee, the drink is wildly popular in the low-carb, high-fat diet community, all thanks to its greasy content.

While some believe bulletproof coffee is a modern concoction, the high-calorie beverage has been consumed throughout history. The Sherpas of the Himalayas and the Gurage of Ethiopia have been drinking rich and creamy butter coffee and butter tea for hundreds of years.

Humans living in high altitude regions have been adding butter to their cup of Joe for an energy boost, as living and working in these areas increase calorie needs. Additionally, many Chinese citizens commonly drink tea made with yak butter. In Tibet, butter tea, or po cha, is a traditional beverage consumed on a daily basis by the Tibetan people.

Many health food personalities and celebrities swear by bulletproof coffee as a morning boost, without any afternoon crash because of the way the fat allows the body to process the caffeine. But what happens when you add cannabutter to your favourite liquid refreshment?

Cannabis isn’t a novel addition to coffee, tea or butter. From coffee pods that gets you stoned to cannabis-infused teas to the everyday stoner staple, the offerings in the cannasphere are endless.

By including cannabutter to your morning cup of tea or coffee, helps the human body to process cannabinoids better due to the presence of healthy fats from both the herby butter and coconut oil.

Looking for a good reason and a dash of motivation to drag your stoner ass out of bed? Treat your body and mind to the energy boost it deserves with this simple cannabis-infused bulletproof coffee recipe.

Bulletproof Coffee With Cannabutter

Servings

cannabutter in coffee

1servingsPrep time

2minutesCooking time

2minutesCalories

200kcal

Kick-off your day on an all time high. Add a spoon off cannabutter to your next bulletproof coffee.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of brewed coffee
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp cannabutter

Directions

  • Mix all of the ingredients together in a blender until the coffee appears frothy.
  • Bottoms up!

Notes

  • Pay attention to the strength of your cannabutter. A tablespoon or two of butter might be too high a cannabis dose. Rule of thumb: start with a small dosage and gradually increase until you hit that sweet spot!

What Happens When You Mix Cannabis in Your Coffee

People drink coffee for the lift. It has caffeine, a stimulant and drug. It’s an individual pleasure and a social drink, pulling people together in cafes for music, conversation, and fun. But, the Dutch government is closing coffee shops throughout Amsterdam.

You see, the Dutch Parliament approved the Weed Pass. The Weed Pass prohibits non-Dutch tourists from visiting Holland’s coffee shops where cannabis consumption is legendary. They made a compromise with the City of Amsterdam.

If Amsterdam closes coffee shops located within 275 feet of a school, other coffee shops can remain open without interference. The idea is to keep cannabis away from the nearby school children.

What happens when you mix marijuana smoking with coffee in Amsterdam’s coffee shops has been creating enjoyable experiences for generations.

The question remains: What happens when you mix cannabis in your coffee? What happens when you add it to your drink or infuse the coffee itself?

How to mix cannabis in your coffee

  • CannaButter offers healthy proteins and fats. Green butter can replace cream, flavored creams, or powdered creamers. Done right, the CannaButter can add distinctive flavors.
  • Chocolate adds sweet to your bitter coffee, but it also makes a delicious mocha latte or iced Frappuccino. All you must do is add a chocolate cannabis edible to your beverage.
  • Dairy comes from almonds, coconuts, cows, soy, and other sources. You can infuse the milk with cannabis to create a soothing or energizing coffee creamer. 
  • Honey is extracted from CBD and THC. You can buy it in straws that you can stir into your coffee. Convenient and portable, the straws will sweeten a coffee, tea, or juice with a stir of the straw.
  • Sugar, infused with cannabis, is widely available in medical cannabis and adult-use dispensaries. It comes in various strengths and strains. You can carry these portable and convenient, sugar packets for discreet use.

When you mix cannabis in your coffee

cannabutter in coffee

The issue is what happens when you mix two drugs. And, once again, we lack adequate research, and are left to studies on monkeys. The only fact we have is that pot users enjoy their weed with coffee.

Caffeine, CBD, and THC each have psycho-neurological effects. And, some of them would seem to counteract the others. Caffeine, for example, has traditionally been used to sober people up after using inebriants. So, you might expect the coffee’s caffeine to ruin the relaxing CBD high or the caffeine might defeat the THC’s euphoria.

Still, there must be something to the common user habit that associates coffee and cannabis. Apparently, there is some synergy between their chemical properties.

AARP’s Healthy Living points out that coffee has shown positive influences on risks presented by Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, oracle cancers, and stroke. Of course, it has documented negative effects on high blood pressure, insomnia, thyroid problems, diabetes, and so on.

Interestingly, studies on cannabis have shown positive effects on Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and tumor control. And, both caffeine and cannabis release dopamine. These correlations may indicate commonalities between the properties of the two elements.

Caffeine and cannabis affect the central nervous system. The caffeine may offset the edginess produced by some strains of THC, and it may bring alertness to CBD’s sedation. Users may in time find their individual balance depending on their choice of cannabis strain, strength of caffeine option, and frequency of use. And, these variable factors defy research.

  • A study published in Addiction Biology studied squirrel monkeys who could select their own feed options. Once they consumed low amounts of caffeine, the monkeys consumed less THC. But, it did not lessen their interest in cocaine.
  • Monkeys in the same study would go for more THC if they were given a high dose of caffeine. You could infer that individuals have a benchmark for tolerance and addiction. 
  • The fact that caffeine does not help you sober up after smoking indicates that both compounds produce some degree of euphoria. Coffee produces alertness and clarity, but strong coffee produces jitters and anxiety. Depending on the dosage, THC will do the same.
  • Nothing supports the claim that smoking while drinking coffee boosts the high. It may reduce your smoking and lead to the assumption that it betters the experience. That satisfaction in the combination effect can be addictive.
  • Both cannabis and caffeine affect the centers for memory, and that presents concerns about adolescents combining the elements.    

The question of what happens when you mix cannabis in your coffee has been energized by the introduction of cannabis-infused coffee products now hitting the market.

  • Mountain Medicine’s Chocolate Espresso Buzz Bites hold 10mg THC in chocolate bites that include an espresso bean.
  • Catapult k-cup, Brewbudz, Pot-O-Coffee, House of Jane are just a few of the Keurig coffeemaker pods for a quick brew of cannabis-infused coffee, some with whopping loads of THC.
  • Steep Fuze infuses whole bean coffee with CBD-oil and removes the negative coffee effects.

They present a new problem in how products are defined as “safe” or not. With no history of serious research on human subjects and quality control standards, the safety of such products remains unclear.

So, is the jury still out?

Well, yes and no. Quality research would clarify the question. Absent that, you must rely on the limited research on monkeys and dated to 2010.

On the other hand, if you are a sensible coffee consumer who enjoys a joint or cannabis additive with your morning brew, you will learn with experience what combination works best for you. If you are a sensible user of both, you will use in moderation understanding the too much of a good thing is likely a bad thing.

1 thought on “When Bulletproof Coffee Meets Cannabutter”

  1. I took bulletproof coffee for a solid 3 months (I’ve been lazy lately) and it’s an absolute game changer. For anyone who’s going to try this, make sure you use all natural, grass-fed butter. I recommend kerrygold irish butter.

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