The waning ritual of a home-hosted communal meal, à la the classic dinner party, is back with a major revamp thanks to the growing legalization of cannabis. One of the women at the helm of this burgeoning movement is chef Andrea Drummer, Los Angeles’s go-to personal chef for cannabis-infused haute cuisine. After pursuing a long-held passion for cooking after years of working as a drug counselor for nonprofits like Planned Parenthood—an irony not Read entire story
Legal Marijuana in the US: The New Surprising Ways People are Getting Stoned
When Jeff Patterson first created Eaze, an app service that allows medical marijuana patients to purchase home-delivered cannabis products from 100 different dispensaries across California, 80 percent of the marijuana products purchased through the app consisted of raw flower. But nearly three years after launching the app in 2014, Eaze’s 250,000-strong cliental have started spending their money on edibles, concentrates and vaporizers, sending Read entire story
David Ansill’s Next Act: Marijuana-Infused Pop-Up Dinners
After one of the best pop-up dinners I’ve ever experienced, I can answer the question a reader messaged me three months ago: Where’s David Ansill cooking these days? The fan was hoping to track down the chef she’d happily followed from spot to spot through his multi-decade Philly career. And she wasn’t alone. A few weeks later, a different chef sent me a text lamenting a lack of finesse in the cuisine at a restaurant… (c) Cannabis Culture Read entire story
6 Sexy Cannabis Chocolate Bars
Versatile, practical and predictable, the advantages of cannabis-infused chocolate are numerous. It’s shelf-stable and freezes well, homogenizes easily for precise THC doses and it’s flexible for use in a variety of recipes. New cannabis chocolate companies enter the market constantly, each working to distinguish themselves from competitors on dispensary shelves. While pioneering brands such as Bhang, Kiva and Day Dreamers established Read entire story
13 Healthy Cannabis Superfoods
Cannabis is a healing herb that also happens to confer feelings of gratitude, contentment, euphoria and self-awareness. When adding cannabis to a daily routine or designing a therapeutic treatment program, it’s important to utilize these soulful benefits to balance both body and mind, providing an opportunity to relax, meditate and reflect on life. Create a synergistic, healthy lifestyle that will allow you to thrive by using cannabis as a Read entire story
Here’s Why Weed Is The New Wine
When you imagine a groups of adults getting together to consume cannabis, what do you see? Well-dressed, accomplished empty-nesters giddily boarding a plane to Denver? Successful millennials who chose to have a budtender at their wedding instead of a bartender? If you’re picturing the guys from Half Baked sunk into the couch, you’re living in the past. Although groups of people socializing and using cannabis is still heavily stigmatized, it is Read entire story
Alaska Regulators OK 1st Retail Licence for Marijuana Products
The owners of Frozen Budz have high hopes now that they've received Alaska's first retail marijuana licence. Destiny Neade, co-owner of the Fairbanks business, received a round of applause from the audience after she won unanimous approval for the inaugural permit from the five-man Alaska Marijuana Control Board. She clapped with both hands above her head after getting the OK. As she walked back to her seat, she told the audience, "Now all I Read entire story
10 of Your Favorite Snacks Made Even Better with Weed
Marijuana, Mary Jane, Weed, Ganja or whatever we crazy kids call it these days – it’s everywhere, and it’s fantastic. Just kidding, Mom. But it is pretty cool how it has been incorporated in the culinary scene. Marijuana has been legalized for medical use in 23 states and for recreational use in four. Edibles have become increasingly popular within the marijuana industry and can be made into almost anything. For those who are not Read entire story
Cooking With Cannabis: ‘I Have a Fish Guy, a Meat Guy and a Weed Guy’
In the two years since Colorado legalised cannabis, chefs in the state have been finding new ways to make a meal of it. “This is delicious, Roz Bielski says, dabbing her mouth with a napkin. “Like eating a cloud. This is the kind of food I’d picture eating in heaven.” It is just after 10am on a sunny Sunday morning in Denver’s Highlands. Clusters of smart churchgoers saunter past the windows of the restaurant; an… The post Cooking With Read entire story