THE ATMOSPHERE IN VANESSA LAVORATO’S KITCHEN IS cheerful and toasty. She’s filming a recipe for her newest subscription venture, The Edibles Club, and before she starts baking, she’s got to get baked.
“We’ve gotta do some weed math, so light the joint, ’cause you know that always helps me with math,” Lavorato says to her friend, artist Niki Ford, as she weighs out a gram of Mango Haze to infuse a vegan baked banana cake.
She rattles off her calculation: 1 gram of 25% THCA flower equals 250 mg THCA; accounting for a 20 percent loss, that’s around 200 mg THC