Some admittedly “far out” entrepreneurs have opened the first ever gourmet medicinal marijuana restaurant in Denver. The full-service restaurant will help patients with medical problems ranging from glaucoma to anorexia to cancer enjoy their medication in a much more socially acceptable manner.
Ganja Gourmet’s menu sounds like something found in a Garfield cartoon, with lasagna, pizza, pot pie, candies, flavored cheesecakes and other tasty treats. Customers who overindulge can even receive free transportation back to their homes. So far though, 90% of the orders have been for takeout.
While the restaurant’s slogan is “Our food is so great, you need a license to eat it,” it seems like you might also need a trust fund. The pizzas go for $89 each.
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That. Is. Awesome. I’m moving to Denver.
posted by Cara on 2-18-2010 at 10:24 am
Just had to mention how much I laughted when I read “pot pie” on the menu!
posted by Wayne on 2-18-2010 at 11:47 am
Jill-I don’t know the last time you checked the street value, but $89 is about what you’d pay for a bag and a large pizza anyway.
posted by Joscel on 2-18-2010 at 3:26 pm
Joscel, it’s not like you’re getting a whole bag though, it’s more like a few joints and a pizza. I doubt they can really include an eighth of pot in each pizza -and even that and a large pizza would normally be less than $90.
posted by Jill H on 2-18-2010 at 3:36 pm
I heard the owner used to own a Jamaican restaurant in one of the suburbs, as well. Rather fitting, no? I’ve lived around denver since it was first legalized, and evidently, there are now more pot dispensaries in the city than there are Starbucks in the entire state.
posted by Allison on 2-18-2010 at 3:55 pm
hey square, you should have titled this “Fancy Foods to Get You Baked”. Weed gets you baked, acid gets you fried.
posted by Dave on 2-18-2010 at 6:21 pm
Dave, second. I work in a collective in socal and I’ll tell ya, getting ‘fried’ has nothing to do with marijuana. Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Sounds more like meth to me.
posted by Justine on 2-18-2010 at 6:55 pm
I with the guys on the word baked….I have a freind who does the “wake and bake” thing on a regular basis! ie get out bed in the am and smoke a joint! “wake and fry” doesn’t sound quite as good!!
posted by Sandie on 2-18-2010 at 11:34 pm
This is just another /fine/ example of how the whole “medical” marijuana thing is a fraud.
When I go to my doctor and he gives me a prescription, I have to go to a trained, licensed pharmacist – who then dispenses my prescription based on X medication, measured in X milligrams and X doses per day.
When you get a medical pot card, you go to a drug dealer and buy a bag of “Purple Sticky Punch”.
Further, some information from the drugabuse.gov website
“Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50–70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs’ exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;8 however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.9 Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time.
Nonetheless, marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, and a heightened risk of lung infections. A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers.10 Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.”
Granted, this article is about eating it, which is probably far more healthy than smoking it.
My state is a medical marijuana state and I’ve been exposed to several users – including friends who defied Doctor’s recommendations and went with smoking pot rather than an alternative, such as ingestion or Marinol prescription capsules – the /only/ FDA approved marijuana based medication.
But, let’s face the truth folks – medical pot and the vaugeness with which most medical pot laws are written are a thinly veiled form of open legalization to make it easier for pot smokers to do what they do.
I think it’s time to dispense with the pleasentries and just legalize pot altogether. It’s been a pointless and wasted fight that has cost billions.
I believe that our resources would be better spent combatting truly dangerous drugs, like meth.
posted by Eric on 2-19-2010 at 4:09 pm
– i second that.
time has come for our generation to erase the stigma of a plant that holds no competition against the likes of more truly dangerous drugs.
–and yes. i believe it should be BAKED. NOT FRIED. FRIED does not give the herb justice.nuff said.
posted by PORMAL Paw on 2-20-2010 at 4:06 pm