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posted by takyon on Saturday September 22 2018, @06:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the final-puff dept.

Into the pot you go: Maine restaurant sedates lobsters with marijuana smoke

Lobsters in one Maine restaurant go out in a blaze of glory once they hit the pot. The owner of a lobster joint is sedating her crustaceans with marijuana smoke before cooking them – granting them, she says, a blissfully humane death.

Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor, told the Portland Press Herald that she had been looking for a way to reduce the suffering of her signature menu item. She experimented with blowing marijuana smoke into a tank with one lobster, Roscoe (basically, she hot-boxed him). When Gill then removed Roscoe's claw bands and returned him to a tank with the other lobsters, she says, he was less aggressive. Gill has a medical marijuana license.

She plans to offer this cooking method as an option for customers who want their lobsters to be baked before they're boiled. But that doesn't mean customers will get stoned from their dinner.

"THC breaks down completely by 392 degrees, therefore we will use both steam as well as a heat process that will expose the meat to 420-degree extended temperature, in order to ensure there is no possibility of carry-over effect," Gill told the Press Herald. So where some see a humane death for the lobster, others see a waste of perfectly good weed.

Related: Switzerland Bans Lobster Boiling Without Stunning or Killing Them


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  • (Score: 2) by rondon on Monday September 24 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)

    by rondon (5167) on Monday September 24 2018, @02:00AM (#739034)

    You used the figures for England and Wales you incompetent boob. Maine is not in Wales or England, you get one internet demerit for wasting everyone's fucking time.

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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday September 24 2018, @02:25AM

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday September 24 2018, @02:25AM (#739043) Journal

    Fake News!

    Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States in 2017-2018, as of June, by race
    People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2018, by race This statistic shows the number of people shot to death by the U.S. police in 2017 and 2018 up to June 20th, distinguished by race. In 2017, the U.S. police shot 179 Hispanics to death. Almost all victims of police shootings were male. In 2017, 940 out of 987 fatalities were men.
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    White 457 211
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