Celebrate 4/20 In Style With Our Favorite Weed Stories
There's are a million perfect ways to celebrate the notable stoner holiday of April 20th, or 4/20. We're celebrating with our favorite weed stories.
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What Is CBD, And What's It Doing In This Candy?
What is CBD, exactly? And what's in doing in those gummy bears your friends in California rave about? Prepare to make a new friend.
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LA's Standard Hotels Add CBD Gumdrops To Mini-Bars
Mini-bars at The Standard hotels in Hollywood and Downtown LA are about to get way chiller. Raid their stash of CBD gumdrops and prepare to relax.
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Cannabis Biz Leader Drake Sutton-Shearer Visits Food Republic Today
In this episode of Food Republic Today, we chat with Drake Sutton-Shearer about the cannabis business, as well as medicated dinner parties and more.
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Press On: All About Flavored Corn Tortillas
Homemade tortillas will ruin you for all others, forever. Once you master the basics, move on and learn all about flavored corn tortillas.
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Farm Out! It's Hemp History Week, Everyone!
How are you going to usher in the eighth annual Hemp History Week? Learn all about this controversial but highly useful crop.
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Cannabis-Infused Olive Oil Is The Latest Health Food Fad
As more states legalize marijuana, culinary innovators are working to create tasty edibles, and cannabis-infused olive oil is the latest treat.
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Coffee Pods Are Reaching A New "High" In Sustainability
Here's a new, discreet way to wake and bake. Metro reports that Brewbudz is the first company to create 100 percent compostable cannabis-infused single-brew coffee pods that fit right into your Keurig.Marketed as medicine, the pods contain different amounts of THC and CBD depending on the illness. Brewbudz's website boasts of its patented extraction process that happens…
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Behold: The World's Most Beautiful Weed Chocolates
The pot industry now offers everything from THC-infused topical rubs to fizzy carbonated drinks and tea bags, and these beautiful chocolates.
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Weed Feed: The Best Exotic Edibles In Colorado
Stash your weed-infused gummies for later, because today's makers of potent edibles are trying their hand at all sorts of unique and fun products. Imagine soda spiked with cannabis, protein powder powered with THC, and gourmet chocolates you would eat even if they didn't have an extra-satisfying kick. How does the whole thing work? Unlike smoking, when you ingest…
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America's First Cannabis Cocktail Mixer Makes Its Splashy Debut
Another day, another advancement in American cannabis consumption. Le Herbe, the French-sounding Seattle-based weed-centric beverage company, has unveiled a new addition to its existing line of buzzy libations: the nation's premier non-alcoholic marijuana-infused cocktail mixer. It's called Batch #55, a blend of smoked citrus, cardamom, cloves and maple water that, according to a rep, is a good match with a dark rum or bourbon — or, you…
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Puff, Puff, Pastry: Anatomy Of A Marijuana Dinner
The beginning of my dalliance with the fantastic world of culinary cannabis started at Sweet Leaf, a mini dispensary chain founded in Colorado. I gave them $25 and signed my name as a participant in Mason Jar Event Group's seasonal soiree of high-end food and green leafy contraband, and in return they handed me a locked,…
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One Strong Drink With "Cannabis Cocktails" Author Warren Bobrow
"What's in the bottle is not what's on the label," says Warren Bobrow, handing me a small apothecary jar of amber-colored fluid. Inside is a top-shelf rum, he says, infused with high-grade marijuana — specifically, a strong indica-dominant hybrid known as Granddaddy Purple.Yet despite containing such a notoriously aromatic additive, the liquor does not reek of…
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Is Marijuana The Next Big Superfood?
It took nearly six years for Robyn Lawrence to finish her first cookbook. Blame that on the signature ingredient. "You can only test one of those recipes at a time," she laughs. "Otherwise, it never would have gotten done."Lawrence is the author of The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook. Released in 2015, the 323-page tome is one of a dozen or so marijuana-themed…
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Can Potatoes Really Grow On Mars?
This is probably some kind of joke, but we're going to pass along this bizarre video sent to us by the Idaho Potato Commission anyway. Because: #FRitesWeek.Idaho, as you're probably aware, is a major supplier for America's thriving fried potato habit. As we learned earlier this week, the ever-expanding Virginia-based burger chain Five Guys (now at some 1,300 locations and counting…
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Forget Bitters: Marijuana Is The Cocktail Botanical Of The Future
The mellowing of marijuana laws in places like Colorado, Oregon and Washington state has brought new meaning to the idea of plant-based cooking in America. But the funky green stuff has other applications, too, beyond the classic pot brownies or the more contemporary "herb butter" for your steak. Like cocktails, for instance."It adds very green tasting notes and aromas, and…
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Comic Ari Shaffir Is A Mushroom Connoisseur
In Food Republic’s new column, Bang Bang Talky Talk, we take a cue from comedian Louis C.K. and bring interesting people to dinner — twice, in rapid succession (bang bang!) — in the hopes of coming back with a doubly good interview. Next up: Ari Shaffir, host of the Comedy Central series This Is Not…
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How To Pair Beer And Marijuana: A Match Made In Hazy Heaven
Wondering how to pair beer and marijuana without inducing a cannabis-infused freakout? Here are pairings to know about.
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Beer Vs. Weed: Should Brewers Be Worried About Legalized Marijuana?
With the legalization of marijuana steadily sweeping the nation in a foggy haze, the beer industry is biting its nails with anticipation. Is it just paranoia? The numbers and worried talk at this week's Beer Industry Summit in New Orleans suggest otherwise. Quartz reports, however, that it might be a little early for beer to…
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Snoop Dogg's Line Of Edibles Comes In Fruity Flavors
It was only a matter of time before Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., better known as Snoop Dogg, came out with his own line of edible marijuana products. The Creators Project reports that the line, called Leafs by Snoop, includes chocolate bars, chews, drops, gummies and “flowers,” or just straight-up weed. The chocolate bars come in…
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Craft Beer Vs. Marijuana: How Legal Pot Has Affected The Colorado Brewing Industry
Next week marks the return of Food Republic’s Craft Beer & Spirits Week, our annual dive into the rapidly evolving world of small-batch booze. With that in mind, here’s a little preview.More than a year has passed since Colorado made it legal to buy and consume marijuana. And signs of the change are nearly everywhere,…
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Michael Ruhlman Wants To Teach You The Proper Ratios For Cooking With Marijuana
Prolific cookbook author Michael Ruhlman, whose latest efforts have involved topics like schmaltz and eggs, has reportedly found a hot new ingredient to mess around with: marijuana. According to The New York Times, Ruhlman, who previously collaborated with famed chefs Thomas Keller and Eric Ripert, is presently in talks with the operators of The Stoner's…
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Do You Decarboxylate Your Weed Before You Cook With It? It Is Highly Recommended
It's not enough to simply simmer your chopped-up marijuana buds in butter anymore. Today's more highly advanced experts on cooking with cannabis strongly suggest that, in order to reap the reefer's full benefits, you should prep the pot first, using a somewhat modernist-sounding technique.It's called decarboxylating. And, it's "an essential step," says Matt Gray, CEO…
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