Cannabis-infused fine dining is gaining popularity in California, and one 'Chopped 420' champion chef is hosting a new weed-themed event series.
However, these blissed-out banquets may have already landed Johnson in some hot water. The San Francisco Department of Public Health has warned the Phoenix that the pot-infused dinner I went to was likely illegal.
Pot-infused dinners are already commonplace in California, but most of them avoid legal trouble by going private, as in “members-only” events like ain Santa Monica profiled by the Los Angeles Times last year. The health department told SFGATE that California law does not allow restaurants to legally infuse food with cannabis.
Cannescape’s public events may be drawing extra scrutiny, but Johnson is still pushing ahead. He told SFGATE that he’s on a mission to open people’s minds about the benefits of pot-infused food. “We're the guinea pigs right now. I know people who have been sitting back and watching us and said, ‘Wow I didn’t even realize you could get through the first dinner,’” Solomon told SFGATE. “I think the education about the overall benefits of cannabis food is what makes it worth it. The more people that we can get educated about cannabis-infused food, the more we can break down those stigmas.
Johnson turned garlic ice cream, frozen corn and a tea-smoked duck into a CBD-infused salad for the first course, and then he made a coffee-and-chili crusted eel entree out of a whole eel, jumbo marshmallows and beets. He stumbled in the final round — he lost precious time after he cut his finger — but then won the whole competition by finishing with a pot-infused bread pudding featuring cottage cheese and clementines.
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