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[Here’s another great article from our 2020 Holiday Food & Drink Guide! Check the rest out here to make your holidays extra festive!โ€”eds.]

Homemade gifts rule, and that includes cannabis edibles. You know who could use some cannabis-infused edibles this holiday season? Every adult in this batshit country.

Cannabis edibles can help with the common physical and psychological manifestations of the stresses of the pandemic, including insomnia, anxiety, and pain. (โ€œJust wanting to be high right nowโ€ is frequently cited as well.)

Gifts made with love are awesome, and with cannabis, even better. So letโ€™s make some!

Get You Some Ganja

Youโ€™ll need cannabis: small b-buds (smaller flower formations near the bottom of the plant, AKA โ€œpopcorn budsโ€), shake (tiny pieces of flower that break off larger buds), or sugar leaf (the small leaves that hold cannabis buds together). The recent annual โ€œCroptoberโ€ harvesting of outdoor cannabis means you, or someone you know, probably has access. It doesn’t need to be pretty, or have a high THC contentโ€”just produced as cleanly as possible, and definitely free of any mold from poor storage.

Joshua Jardine Taylor is the Mercury's Senior Cannabis columnist and correspondent, and has written "Cannabuzz" since 2015.