Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Arts, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Edible cannabis products are hot right now: Snoop's got some, Willie Nelson's got some—even Martha Stewart's making fancy French-style gummies. In states where it’s legal, you can buy everything from marshmallows to macarons, all laden with THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis. This commercial boom may be recent, but the history of edibles goes way, way back to the origins of the plant thousands of years ago in the Himalayas—in fact, people were eating (and drinking) cannabis long before they were inhaling it. So when did cannabis start being smoked instead—and how did it find itself not only banned, but classified as more dangerous than both opium and meth? With the help of the woman whose family ran America's first edibles empire, we also discover why the pot brownie is America’s quintessential edible, and how this humble, slightly mulchy baked good helped make weed legal again. Plus: How today's cannabis chefs are upping the ante and taking weed recipes to new—ahem—highs (please allow us just this one pun). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to an experience like no other.
0:08.1	This is a 420 chopped extravaganza.
0:11.1	We got THC in here, baby.
0:13.9	Listen to that sizzle.
0:14.9	I'm the Martha Stewart of Canavis.
0:17.9	It's like a whole new world.
0:19.2	It's open for us, Josh.
0:20.6	Yee-haw, what?
0:21.6	I'm coming to roll my competition up and smoke up.
0:26.9	I have seen a fair amount of cooking shows, but until recently, I didn't even realize
0:31.3	that there's an entire genre about how to best cook with cannabis.
0:35.2	But if it's to do with food, Gastropod is on it.
0:38.4	Once more unto the breach for you, dear listeners, this of course is Gastropod, the podcast
0:44.1	that looks at food through the lens of science and history.
0:46.6	I'm Nicola Twilly.
0:47.7	And I'm Cynthia Graber, and yes, so many of you have asked for it, including my mom,
0:52.2	Tama, and finally, we are fulfilling your wishes.
0:55.6	This is the Gastropod episode, actually episodes, all about weed, specifically about edibles.
1:02.4	Edibles are red-hot right now, sales skyrocketed during the pandemic, at least in the states
1:07.3	where they're legal.
1:08.4	The market grew by 60% to more than a billion dollars.
1:12.5	And nationally, there's some potentially revolutionary news out of Congress.
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