Alice B. Toklas brownie

An Alice B. Toklas brownie, also known as an Alice B. Tokin' brownie or more colloquially as a bud brownie, magic brownie, or special brownie, is a type of hash cookie (a cake containing cannabis). Eating such a brownie can result in the same psychoactive effect or "high" as smoking marijuana, although it may be delayed or mitigated due to slower absorption of the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) through the digestive tract. Products containing cannabis are widely available in cannabis coffee shops in the Netherlands (and various European cities), where consumption use of marijuana is effectively legal.

Terminology

Other terms for an Alice B. Toklas brownie include "bud brownie", "space cake", "pot pie", "hash brownie", "special brownie", or "magic brownie". The latter term has been used as a source for just about any other food item that contains marijuana or mushrooms: "magic tea", "magic cake", etc.

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The term Alice B. Tokin' brownie may have started as a pun on the word Alice B. Toklas brownie; combining imagery from the stoner-classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which the eponymous heroine eats different foods to strange effect, with the concept of to be tokin'/toking from the stoner vernacular to toke, or to smoke cannabis. Hence, an "Alice is getting high (Alice be tokin' ) brownie". However, it is equally likely that the Alice be tokin' explanation is a folk etymology created by people who mis-heard Alice B. Toklas as Alice B. Tokin' , without any doubt due to the ubiquitous association of the works of Lewis Caroll with all things psychedelic.

Related Topics:
Pun - Stoner - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Eponymous - Heroine - Vernacular - Folk etymology - Lewis Caroll - Psychedelic

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