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Cheryl: "Hello! Come on in you guys hi!"
Beverly Hills mum Cheryl Shuman has invited
her friends round for an afternoon dinner party. But Cheryl's three course menu has
a very surprising ingredient. This is Come Dine With Cannabis.
It's home to the stars, fast cars and lavish
lifestyles but here in downtown Beverly Hills a group of mums are swapping expensive restaurants
for a controversial culinary alternative.
Cheryl: For our event tonight we're going to be having a cannabis infused Chicken Piccata,
made by a wonderful chef here in Beverly Hills and we're also doing a cannabis infused salad
which is going to be really delicious.
Cheryl: "Shall we dig in ladies?"
Cheryl began cooking with marijuana after being diagnosed with cancer. Now she hosts
dinner parties for other mum's with medical issues.
Cheryl: I started doing a lot of research
online and found out, you can cook with the plant.
Cheryl has invited top Italian chef David
Schanhals to prepare a special meal for a group of friends she calls her marijuana mums.
David: "Cannabis butter. All organically grown.
As far as the chicken dish we have a little organic hemp oil to toss with it, to coat
it y'know. Mashed potatoes we do have the canna-butter in there."
Cheryl: "That smells great" David: "We're gonna have a salad, we've got
red leaf and radicchios, and, you know, mizuna lettuces, and baby spinaches, so why can't
we have a little fresh cannabis?" Cheryl: "That's my attitude"
David also eats marijuana infused meals at
home to help with his own ailments.
David: "I have had stomach issues since I was 14 so this makes it so I know I can function."
In California, where marijuana is legal for
medical reasons, more and more respectable women are choosing to dine with cannabis.
January: "Tastes really really yummy. Thank
you so much David." Friend: "Thank you very much."
Cheryl: "Most people assume that you're going
to be *** if you eat food that's infused with cannabis but it actually depends on what
strain you're using in the cannabis."
Cheryl and her friends have explained their use of cannabis to their children. And even
believe it takes them better parents.
Cheryl: "When I use cannabis, quite frankly it does make me a better mom because I'm calmer,
I'm more rational, I'm not angry, I'm not stress and I can work with my children."
January: "Let's go."
Cheryl's friend January Jones, a cannabis
activist, smokes the drug regularly while caring for her two-year-old daughter.
January: "You'll watch her and I'll medicate?"
January's Husband: "Yeah, and then my turn." January: "Alright Mommy will see you in a
few minutes okay?
January: "Smoking cannabis helps me be a better mother. With my early onset arthritis I wouldn't
even be able to pick up my daughter."
January: "It makes me a more creative mom, a more relaxed mother."
January has found a way to explain her drug-use
to her daughter in a story-book.
January: "What's that mommy? This is a joint. It's made of marijuana. Mari-what? Yeah."
January and Cheryl insist cannabis should
only be used by adults. But some believe it can also help children with medical problems.
And there is a growing movement to legalise the drug across America.
Cheryl: "By 2016, I estimate that over half
the country will have legal cannibis at least for medical, if not for full recreational."
Cheryl: "This one is Blue Jay."
Cheryl: "Hopefully one day we'll see Beverly
Hills cannabis clubs all over, so people can go in and have medicated coffee and I would
like to see it as normal as walking into a Starbucks.