Great topic, made me nostalgic for younger days... Latvians (and I'm sure other eastern Europeans) make hemp butter, from hemp seeds, very tasty, similar to peanut butter. Of course, being made from hemp the THC is non-existant, however the packaging usually has a very pretty leaf pictured on the label, identical to a pot leaf. I brought some back with me on my last trip, was wondering if customs would catch it. They do, however, recognise that at special times even hemp can be useful. There are folksongs advising young girls to stay out of the hemp fields when they are in bloom... The latest New Yorker (Sept. 6, the food issue, wonderful reading) also mentions cooking with marijuana. In a great article on pasta the author discusses one of the oldest existing Italian books on cooking (1645), that contains: "a recipe for boiled cannabis meatballs (offa cannabina), a dish "to be fled from, for it nourishes badly, arouses squeamishness, generates pain in the stomach and intestines, and dulls the eyes" There are a few other cannabis recipes, too, evoking fifteenth century stoners loitering in the Vatican Library" Sveiki Burlington, Canada
