A Maine Restaurant Wants to Kill Lobsters Humanely by Getting Them Stoned

Marijuana could be the key to tastier shellfish that dies happier

Want humanely killed lobster? Order it baked. Well, it’s actually steamed, and the thoughtful restaurant serving this crustacean advertises it as stoned.  Legendary Lobster Pound, in Southwest Harbor, Maine, is exposing its lobsters to marijuana smoke before cooking them

The effects of weed smoke on a lobster named Roscoe, placing the lobster in about two inches of water inside a covered box, and then pumping the smoke into the liquid in sort of a water bong scenario. Roscoe was then returned to his tank, sans restrictive claw bands, with other lobsters for three weeks,  he totally mellowed out. Roscoe never once wielded his claws as weapons toward his tank mates following the hot-box session.

The inspiration for this groovy experiment comes from Switzerland, which banned the practice of boiling lobsters alive earlier this year. The Swiss government suggests stunning methods such as electrocution or a stab between the eyes prior to cooking the shellfish. These are both horrible options, If we’re going to take a life we have a responsibility to do it as humanely as possible.

So, henceforth, smoke lobsters up with homegrown, to ensure they die happy. marijuana sedation will result in tastier meat and give cooks and diners peace of mind.

“THC breaks down completely by 392 degrees,” therefore we will use both steam as well as a heat process that will expose the meat to 420 degree extended temperature, in order to ensure there is no possibility of carryover effect (even though the likelihood of such would be literally impossible).”

As for Roscoe, he was reportedly set free and returned to the ocean as a thank you for participating in the study.