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"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: 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".