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SOMEDAY, BEN & Jerry’s ice cream could come in a new flavor: cannabis.
Founds Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield told HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski that they were open to making marijuana-infused ice cream.
‘Combining pleasures’
“Combine your pleasures,” Cohen told Minkovski in a recent interview.
Marijuana is legal for medicinal and recreational use in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. Many other states have approved the herb for medical purposes.
Ben & Jerry’s is known for being socially progressive.
The brand has long supported marriage equality and offers good benefits to workers.
The company has also phased out GMOs in its ingredients.
As more states legalise marijuana, other big consumer companies are looking to capitalise on the trend.
Skinnygirl alcohol founder Bethenny Frankel is reportedly working on weed that won’t give you the munchies.
The Real Housewife of New York plans on launching “her own line of ‘Skinnygirl marijuana’ in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, where recreational cannabis is legal,” Us Weekly reports.
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I scream
You scream
We all scream
For Ben and Gerrys cannabis ice cream….
Mmm, yes please!
Eating cannabis ice cream will just make you get the munchies and want more. Genius!
Relax with hash chip icecream. Let your troubles melt away.
I always got the munchies for proper food, maybe a second or third dinner, never really sweets and stuff, though Ben & Jerry’s are nice anytime
Mix of both for me Eric, cheese and onion crisps and chocolate then more cheese and onion crisps followed by more chocolate.
Will.it come in plain packaging?
The only ice cream that leaves you feeling hungry…
Cut out the middle man
Ben & Jerry’s.
The price, could be too high.
Gerard. Live a little. If it ever got into any food stuff it would be legal.
I wonder what they will name it? Some variation on Pot noodle perhaps?
Good hearted hippies, those unilever execs.
Oooooooh with warning signs for the kiddies ! Warning: whilst trying our ice cream you may feel urges to try crack cocaine and heroine.
^^ Ignorant comment award ^^
its hardly going to be sold in grocery stores, more like dispensaries, so i wouldn’t worry about the precious kiddies!
My kids will love it .
Guilding the lily. Ice cream is fine on its own.
That may be so Neal, but I think they may just be on to something with this infusion.
You see, I love ice cream, but, to me it’s a trigger for a serious bout of migraine. Cannabis is well known for its pain killing abilities, and that infused with ice cream – win, win for me :)
Sometimes gilding the lily ain’t so bad.
That’s as good as excuse as any, I suppose!
No excuse Neal, it would just mean salivatory pleasure without pain to me.
(I do enjoy your controversial posts btw:)
Any chance of something low sugar and lots of real cream instead?
Agreed. Ben & Jerry’s is watery muck.
Couldn’t agree less, the peanutbutter one is the work of the gods!
Whooohooooo .
So now not allowed to be anti drugs ice cream and tell it like it is? Fcking ridiculous. Oh mammy cannabis is OK its in ice cream. Stupid brain dead billonares typical being protected for calling them what they are.
And for those who cannot wait – http://eatyourcannabis.com/cannabis-ice-cream/
Twood be a viscose cycle i tell ya
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