news.com.au
December 06, 2012
AS if parents didn’t have enough to worry about, alcoholic ice cream and cannabis-infused edibles have hit the market.
A New York company has started producing wine ice cream.
It’s different from the benign wine-flavoured ice cream sold at Australian boutique stores or the stuff you can whip up at home using online recipes.
A few cones of Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream – let alone a tub – will put you over the limit.
It contains five percent alcohol and is not supposed to be sold to anyone under the age of 21 (the legal drinking age in the US).
Available flavours include Cherry Merlot, Chocolate Cabernet, Peach White Zinfandel, Port Red, Raspberry Chardonnay and Riesling.
As one blogger snidely remarked, now you can get “fat and drunk” at the same time.
You can also get stoned and fat at the same time thanks to the legalisation of marijuana in two US states, Colorado and Washington, last month.
“Spicy peanut brittle” contains 133mg THC.
Dozens of marijuana-infused products have gone on sale at wholesale dispensaries and we’re not just talking pot brownies.
Fizzy drinks, peanut butter, truffles, sauces, shampoo, breath sprays, ointments – almost anything can be infused with the drug – and food entrepreneurs are getting seriously creative with their product lines.
Leading the charge are Simply Pure and Bakked – both based in Colorado. The former claims to produce healthy, vegan, gluten-free “medicated edibles” such as coconut butter, marinara sauce and chilli salsas while the latter sells candies and breads that can only be described as munchies.
Both companies provide consumers with the drug-strength of each product , usually by giving the amount of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol – the psychoactive compound found in marijuana) contained within.
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