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Bite Me The Show About Edibles
Make great cannabis edibles at home for less money.
The way you handle an edible, the ritual, the logic, the catastrophic miscalculations, is a personality X-ray. Unlike a Myers-Briggs, you cannot lie your way through it.
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According to Bite Me host and certified Ganjier Margaret, there are five main edibles personality types — plus one honorable mention. They are: The Scientist (precise, data-driven, never taken too much in their life), The YOLO (spontaneous, optimistic, sent at least one "I think I might be dead" text), The Anxious Waiter (responsible dose, Google spiral, two doses by accident), The Social Sharer (brought edibles to every gathering, checks on everyone), and The Sophisticated Micro Dose (2.5mg, terpene opinions, whole wellness philosophy). The honorable mention is The Forgetter, who found their edibles in a November coat pocket six months later and ate all of them with zero plan.
Each type reveals something real about how you handle uncertainty — which is, according to Margaret, where personality actually lives.
Edibles take 30 to 90 minutes to kick in — sometimes longer — because they travel through your digestive system before reaching your bloodstream. Unlike smoking or vaping, where THC enters the bloodstream through the lungs almost immediately, edibles are absorbed through the small intestine and then processed by the liver, which converts THC into a more potent compound called 11-hydroxy-THC.
Factors that affect onset time include: whether you've eaten recently (a full stomach slows absorption), your metabolism, body composition, and gut microbiome. This is exactly why The Anxious Waiter takes a second dose — and exactly why that's a trap. The first dose was working the whole time. Just working quietly.
Margaret covers the full science in Ep. 313: The Science of Edibles Simplified.
Microdosing cannabis edibles means consuming a very small amount of THC — typically 1 to 5mg — with the goal of experiencing subtle benefits like focus, creativity, or relaxation without significant intoxication. A common starting microdose is 2.5mg.
The Sophisticated Micro Dose personality type has built this into a full wellness system — specific timing, preferred brands, terpene awareness, and a lot of intentionality. As Margaret notes, there is real substance to intentional low-dose use. The gentle advice: occasionally eat the whole gummy and watch something dumb. You might enjoy it.
The widely recommended starting dose for edibles is 2.5mg to 5mg of THC, especially for new consumers or those trying a new product. The golden rule is "start low, go slow" — you can always take more later, but you cannot undo a dose that is too high.
Importantly, your smoking or vaping tolerance does not reliably translate to edibles. The liver processes THC differently than the lungs do, and many experienced smokers are surprised by how differently edibles hit. Margaret has interviewed people with five milligram tolerances who are six-foot bodybuilders, and people who feel very little from 100mg. Individual biology varies enormously.
Always wait at least two hours before deciding whether to take more. This is the single most important rule, and the one The YOLO consistently ignores.
If edibles don't seem to work, the most likely explanations are: the dose is too low for your biology, you haven't waited long enough (two hours is the minimum), you took them on an empty stomach which can affect absorption unpredictably, or the product itself was underdosed.
A small percentage of people do metabolise edibles differently due to gut microbiome variations, but this is much rarer than people assume. Most of the time "edibles don't work on me" turns into a very eventful evening about 90 minutes after that conclusion was reached.
If you're making your own edibles at home, calculating potency accurately is the most reliable fix.
The most effective approach is to lead with the relationship, not a defence. Starting with "I'm not asking you to change your mind — I just want to be open with you because you matter to me" removes the pressure from both sides and opens a real conversation.
Invite their specific concern rather than defending against a general objection. "What specifically worries you? I'd rather talk about that directly" tends to surface the actual issue, which is often not what you expect.
Margaret covers this in depth — with specific phrases for partners, parents, housemates, and doctors — in the How to Talk About Cannabis episode.
A Ganjier is a trained cannabis specialist — think of it as a sommelier for cannabis. Ganjiers are certified to evaluate, pair, and educate about cannabis products, strains, terpenes, and consumption methods. The certification is awarded by the Trichome Institute.
Bite Me host Margaret is a certified Ganjier, which informs her approach to edibles education — grounded in real knowledge about how cannabis works in the body, not just personal experience.
Bite Me is a weekly podcast hosted by Margaret, a certified Ganjier and cannabis educator, focused entirely on edibles — making them at home, understanding how they work in the body, dosing safely, and the culture around them. The show's philosophy is that your kitchen is the best dispensary you'll ever have.
Episodes cover recipes, interviews with cannabis industry experts, the science of onset times and potency, and — in Episode 345 — what your edibles habits reveal about your personality. New episodes are released every week.
Find out which type you are — The Scientist, YOLO, Anxious Waiter, Social Sharer, Micro Dose, or Forgetter.