"How to set a tone of woodsy chic at a four-course candlelight dinner served under the stars in the Colorado foothills:
Live musicians and flowers, check. Award-winning cuisine, check. Beer and wine pairings with each course, check. Marijuana pairings? Oh, yes.
The 100 diners at this $200-a-plate dinner smoked a citrus-smelling marijuana strain to go with a fall salad with apples, dates and bacon, followed by a darker, sweeter strain of pot to accompany a main course of slow-roasted pork shoulder in a mole sauce with charred root vegetables and rice.
And with dessert? Marijuana-infused chocolate, of course, grated over salted caramel ice cream and paired with coffee infused with non-intoxicating hemp oil.
The diners received small glass pieces and lighters to smoke the pairings, or they could have their marijuana rolled into joints by professional rollers set up next to a bartender pouring wine.
Welcome to fine dining in Weed Country."
- Full Article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046
- Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20161013102626/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:14AM
Poor people get tossed in jail for one joint.
God Bless America for Rich People.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:33AM
*black people
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @03:32PM
We humans mostly view time on a scale that makes little sense on a historical scale. The movement on rescinding MJ bans seem like it is picking up steam, much like the "shall issue" concealed carry laws: first, there was only Vermont (and perhaps also Alaska) - but then flash-forward to today and all but two or three States now require concealed-carry permits be issued unless the background check reveals a compelling reason not to (e.g. the applicant is a violent felon).
Now, neither drug bans nor gun laws are constitutional, but it's still nice to get the crumbs of liberty when they happen to fall down under the table.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday October 16 2016, @07:17PM
Yes, but do remember that not being in the US Constitution just means the Feds aren't legally (as opposed to officially) permitted to do something. This says nothing about the rights of states and cities, which have a perfect right to limit, e.g., firearms....if it's in their constitutions or charters.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:40PM
I certainly am open to views that differ from my own, such as yours, but here's likely the connundrum of the pendulum swinging back towards liberty from tyranny-land where it is now:
All governments in the USA claim "the people" as the source of their authority. The authority of "the people" does not grow in limit with larger numbers of people: if I as one person can't kidnap and cage my neighbor for growing a certain type of plant (weed, tree, shrub, etc.), neither then can 100 or 100 million people justly do the same. Further, if I do not have the authority to do a given thing on my own, neither can I delegate authority to do the same to any government.
Shorthand: if I can't do a given thing to someone else, neither can US governments [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:20AM
People who combust it obviously don't care too much about the flavor and aroma. Maybe those Colorado hillbillies haven't gotten access to the technology yet. It's not like Colorado is known for good food and wine, either. I'll stick to vaping it up in the bathroom at a Michelin 3-star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:25AM
I always masturbate because no one else but me can please me to my high standard of sex.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:51AM
I hope you use an expensive, high quality vapo- I mean onahole.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:32AM
Vaping sucks IMHO. I've smoked, eaten, and vaped a lot of weed and there's nothing like rolling one up and burning it. Edibles are just food, and unless you cook it yourself or get high quality stuff it usually doesn't taste good and the high is not great compared to other forms. Good glass is ok, vaping is ok, but they are very boring and lack the ritual of breakdown, rolling, drying, smoking. A gram rolled in a high quality tobacco leaf shared between friends is the pinnacle of smoking for me.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:51AM
Hell yeah, back when I smoked tobacco nothing beat the synergistic effect of both the tobacco and weed at once. Whether you're mixing them and rolling them in a paper European-style, or smoking it in a blunt with some real authentic Blacks over a jug of Carlo Rossi wine, the whole process of the preparation and anticipation was as great as the smoking itself.
Having to clean grass is something the young whippersnappers will never understand. Breaking down that chunk of schwag peeled off the brick and smuggled through the cow's ass, breaking it up by hand (with larger amounts, it would be a team effort with multiple people cleaning the weed), and quickly removing the seeds by spreading the crumbles all over the cover of a vinyl record and tapping it while holding it as a slight angle so that all the seeds rolled right off while the shit stayed in place, and the hilarious look of surprise as the errant seed popped like popcorn while being lit in the pipe.
I remember bringing a rolling machine to a smoke-out once, and getting laughed-at and chided for it, because it was "mechanizing" the process. Ahh, the old heady days of blacklights, lava-lamps, homemade pipes made from sprite bottles, and stolen booze.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:50AM
They say marijuana is not addictive but it seems you have been doing this for a while...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:05AM
Nope. I've abstained from pot many times, in fact now even.
It is addictive, though only for a certain type of "addictive." You're not gonna be breaking your kids' piggy-banks for your next fix.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:33AM
Breathing is also addictive, and death is a withdrawal symptom.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday October 16 2016, @04:08PM
They say orange juice is not addictive but...
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Geotti on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:04AM
Pinnacle of smoking, you say it yourself, and I agree. But nothing compares to the flavor that you get from a vape. High-tech!
You can have rituals with it too: share it with your friends, wake 'n vape and use it on a transcontinental ;)
I can highly [pun intended] recommend the grasshopper, but heard good things about the new firefly too. They heat up in a few seconds vs. the minute a Pinnacle Pro or DaVinci requires, and controlling the temperature means that you can release just the THC without too much CBD, meaning that you can get a nice cerebral high, whenever you want it.
Little reason to fuck up your lungs except for nurturing your nicotine addiction.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:33AM
Vapes are great, but in the so-called "progressive" state of California portable vape cartridges are a "concentrate" and so carry additional legal penalties if you are caught with one or more.
[ Note: being caught with the vape itself doesn't carry that penalty, so if you if you sense that you're about to be caught, ditch the cartridge. ]
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday October 16 2016, @03:02AM
Actually, the portables I was referring to [1] are for solid material, i.e. you can vape herb(s) (or solid concentrates) with it. (You could probably also put a drop of something on cotton and vape that too.)
Theres a great (and aptly named) forum, where you can spend quite a bit of time at [2].
[1] grashoppervape.com, thefirefly.com
[2] fuckcombustion.com
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Sunday October 16 2016, @10:44AM
Haha, I missed that good catch. It's pretty much a reflex to refer to everything weed-related as "smoking", just like "drinking" refers to alcohol. If 'm talking about cigarettes it's always "smoking a cigarette" (although nine times out of ten I'd actually say square), but with weed it's just "smoking".
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday October 16 2016, @03:57PM
People who combust it obviously don't care too much about the flavor and aroma.
People who talk like that have obviously never had the good stuff. BTW, Thai stick chopped finely and added to spaghetti is delicious. It will also get you wasted.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:25AM
That totally reeks of a gimmick. If you want to get the most out of a good meal, then eat a small but potent edible or smoke beforehand, then eat a good marijuana-free dinner after you get the munchies.
The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass. Okay, it's not terrible, but it's still obvious and in an unpleasant way. Actually, eating edibles can be a dangerous thing, because they're so slow-acting that it can be difficult to gauge their potency. This is no big deal to experienced psychonauts, but that skinny chick you take to dinner might just freak the fuck out after it all kicks in. I sure did, that one time I ate five marijuanas:
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:28AM
THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass.
An experienced analinguist such as yourself really knows what good ass tastes like.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:53AM
And probably gets asked on more second dates than you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:09AM
Actually, if you use hash butter, it only tastes a bit; definitely not as overpowering as grinding weed directly into the food instead of oregano, parsley, or whatever... Difficult to gauge, though. True.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Sunday October 16 2016, @04:05PM
The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass.
Crappy ingredients make crappy food no matter what you're cooking. Also, done wrong it will be terrible. But if you have good weed and the right recipe, it's great. The best spaghetti I ever ate had two whole bricks of Thai stick (that's 40 sticks) chopped and mixed with the sauce. Yes, it was in Thailand where two bricks cost eight bucks.
Mix pickles and ice cream and it will taste like shit, too, no matter what else you put in it.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday October 18 2016, @01:17PM
I'm not sure what your point here is. You talk about the need to take it easy, then describe exactly the kind of situation everyone WANTS to get in when they take weed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:45AM
Use a bong filled with cherry kool-aid. It tastes great, cuts the harshness of the smoke.