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</div></div></div>Don't bogart that spoon, man. Lemme get a hit off that cone, dude. Pass the bowl ... of ice cream?
Could Ben and Jerry's, the counterculture snack empire gone mainstream, be planning a marijuana-infused ice cream?
 
"Makes sense to me. You know, combine your pleasures," co-founder Ben Cohen said in an interview with HuffPost Live that's been buzzing among marijuana aficionados since it aired last month. Like attitudes about marijuana itself, the story went mainstream this week.
 
It makes some sense. Co-founder Jerry Greenfield noted that the duo has some experience with, uh, substances. And the company already gives a nod to the marijuana culture with flavor names such as "Half Baked."
 
Marijuana is becoming more mainstream, too. Four states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and attitudes nationwide have been changing in favor of marijuana, which remains banned by federal law.
 
In January 2014, a CNN/ORC poll found that 55% of Americans favored the legalization of marijuana. Only 16% thought that in 1987, CNN reported at the time.
 
In Colorado, where recreational marijuana use is legal under state law, edibles containing weed now make up nearly half the market for pot products, according to the Denver Post.
 
Alas, pot fans, Cohen and Greenfield no longer control the company. They sold it to Unilever Inc. for $326 million in 2000.
 
"If It were my decision, I'd be doing it," Greenfield told HuffPost Live. "But fortunately, we have wiser heads at the company that figure those things out."
 
A spokeswoman for the company told AdWeek magazine that there aren't any current plans for pot ice cream, but she left the door open to the possibility.
 
"Ben & Jerry's hasn't given serious consideration to the possibility of cannabis-infused ice cream," spokeswoman Kelly Mohr told AdWeek. "Perhaps it's high time."   

 

The more states that legalize, the better the odds are you will see some "Kandy Kane Kush" from Ben and Jerry's some day! 
 
Why not do a little activism and speed the day? It isn't hard! Just email me (see my sig, or PM me your email address) and I'll send you my "Granny Storm Crow's List" - over 2000 pages of links to medical studies and articles on cannabis and the cannabinoids. With my List, you can....
 
Educate yourself on a "news paper" level, or a "grad student" level, or anywhere in between, on most cannabinoid subjects.
 
Send a few abstracts (anonymously?) to your doctor. Most doctors are unaware of what cannabis can do beyond getting you high, easing pain and nausea.  You can show him stuff like post #8 -  http://forum.grasscity.com/medical-marijuana-news/1357257-california-bill-introduced-end-organ-transplant-denials-mmj-patients.html
 
And then there is "troll hunting".     Go to the Yahoo home page, on the left side, right under the YAHOO! is a column starting Mail, News, Sports,... Click "news"  and put "marijuana" in the "search news"  bar that pops up. That gets you all the marijuana news. From there you click an article, read it and see if it has comments. If it does, that's when the fun begins! This is what I did a couple days ago to poor Mark- http://news.yahoo.com/majority-of-americans-support-marijuana-legalization-for-first-time--survey-shows-211700847.html;_ylt=AwrBEiRuRv1U8DYA063QtDMD
 
Mark 4 days ago      Thumbs downs-  23        Thumbs up-   0
"You talk about the medical benefits - what about the medical pitfalls? What about those smokers who, upon smoking marijuana, become schizophrenic, paranoid, bi-polar, etc. because of the THC triggers in their brain?"
 
Storm 4 days ago    <span>  Thumbs downs- 0</span>       Thumbs up-  15
"Mark, the rate of schizophrenia has remained constant at around 1% for several decades. The rate of cannabis use has NOT remained constant- it has steadily risen since I was a teen in the 1960s! If the two were actually connected, the rates would rise together! They haven't!

In a very recent study (2015), "Alcohol confounds relationship between cannabis misuse and psychosis conversion in a high-risk sample", after adjusting for alcohol use, “cannabis use was not related to psychosis".

Last year's "A controlled family study of cannabis users with and without psychosis" found "The results of the current study suggest that having an increased familial morbid risk for schizophrenia may by the underlying basis for schizophrenia in cannabis users and not cannabis use by itself."

Then there are these- "Harvard: Marijuana Doesn't Cause Schizophrenia" (Psych Central), "Can The Cannabis Component Cannabidiol (CBD) Cure Schizophrenia?" (Examiner), "Cannabidiol as a potential treatment for psychosis (PubMed), and "Study: Marijuana Linked to Lower Mortality Rate for Patients with Psychotic Disorders" (Alternet). More in "Granny Storm Crow's List"."
 
 
Oddly, Mark never replied!      That happens a lot! LOL  You throw around a few titles and maybe a quote or two, and the "Marks" vanish like a puff of smoke!
 
None of those things will "blow your cover",  or is difficult, or costly to do, yet they can change minds about cannabis! 
 
You want your Ben and Jerry's?     Become an activist!
 
 
Granny

 

Dudes, if you are in NorCal, you may not have to wait! When I was visiting with my friend Gina, yesterday, she let me have a small sample from a "test batch" of some blackberry medicated ice cream!  She says she is planning on selling it in her dispensary this summer. (Yes, I'll keep you guys posted on the release date! lol)
 
The only problem I can see with it is that it was so dang good, and I'd be tempted to eat a bit too much!
 
 
Granny