MMJ: What's Cooking?

My fiancé and I just started watching your Netflix show, Cooking on High, and we love it! She’s into cooking shows and I smoke daily, so it’s perfect. Random question: If you were to stuff a turkey or chicken with actual buds, would the fats and the oils in the bird bring out the THC and make it so you don’t have to use weed oil or butter? - Pothead Pat

Thanks for watching! I think you would still need to butter up the bird. Just stuff a bird full of buds and you end up with chicken-marinated weed, not weed-marinated chicken. Best bet is to make a weed and herb butter, then slather it all over the chicken (and under the skin) to achieve maximum effect.

Are the clubs gonna have any weed this week? I am worried. - Larry Lowstash

I hope you stocked up last week when the clubs were holding giant clearance sales. California’s new rules went into effect July 1, so clubs had to get rid of all of their untested and unpackaged cannabis. The problem is, there aren’t enough licensed, tested and properly packaged products to go around just yet. The packaging rules are convoluted, hard to find, and more than a little ridiculous.

Producers are having to visit like nine different websites just to get an idea of what the new packaging should look like. And don’t get me started on how much plastic and mylar (Really, California? Mylar is one of the most unrecyclable substances on the planet) are needed to comply with the new rules.

All the cannabis has to be tested, in some cases up to three different times (don’t ask – it’s just ridiculous), so of course all of the testing labs are overwhelmed, creating a huge backlog and keeping cannabis off of the shelves. It didn’t have to be this way. The Bureau of Cannabis Control could’ve extended the deadline for the new rules and given clubs and testing labs more time to catch up.

I know the BCC is trying its best, but just can’t seem to get it together. We already had a pretty good system in place before Prop. 64 passed. It should have been fairly simple to create regulations that aren’t so byzantine and burdensome. Things should smooth out in the future, but the BCC has given me no reason to be optimistic. And they wonder why the gray market is thriving while the legit cannabis revenue is falling short of expectations.