While cannabis and food fusing together isn’t a new development, it is however entering the fine dining space in a unique and surprising way in California. The latest trend in the recently legalized state is weed supper parties, hosted by weed sommeliers and former executive chefs. Patrons can sign up online and can be treated to a full course experience that’s properly dosed for your marijuana tolerance levels.
Though cannabis legalization in and of itself is enough to excite most, what’s really exciting moving forward is how cannabis will merge with ancillary products and markets. We’re already seeing marijuana as a theme to build an entire TV show around and cannabis-friendly dating apps pop up. It’s clear to see how marijuana will continue normalizing itself within the culture writ large through moves like these, in a similar way how alcohol at a social event doesn’t feel so naughty but par for the course.
Here is The Independent’s Edmund Vallace describing one prepared meal:
We start with prosciutto, burrata, and fava beans picked from in Aaron’s own garden. The olive oil must have been sneakily spiked with its psychoactive ingredients, because it has only a subtle taste of cannabis.
After the prosciutto, we move to Japanese sweet potato gnocchi with loquat jam and goat butter; short rib filanese with risotto; then black cod with squid ink salsa verde—the weed-oiled fish garnished with tiny pink nasturtiums.
This isn’t your sketchy friend of a friend’s college roommate producing some mind-melting weed brownies. The California scene operates in a rather underground space as California is still under strict regulation until January 2018. Attending one of these parties, we should mention, constitutes a legally gray space, as only card carriers should consume medicinal marijuana in California still.
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It remains an exciting venture, however, as cannabis and the culture look to the future. “Notable weed entrepreneur” Chris Sayegh intends to soon open Herb, which will be, as he calls it, the world’s first cannabis restaurant. We’ll let you know when you can make reservations.
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