Vin et cannabis: Pot de vin en Californie

Pour l'instant, la plupart des producteurs qui font ce type de vin, le faire seulement en très petites quantités et à partager avec "l'esprit ouvert amis» dans les mots de l'écrivain Mike Steinberger expert en vin.

The effect of wine with marijuana "is faster than the brownies with Cannabis" and produces "an interesting little buzz", said the President of the Marijuana Growers Association of Napa Valley, Carter Crane .

To make this wine, "Pot wine", is necessary to mix a pound of marijuana (nearly half a kilogram of cannabis) with wine must then ferment in barrels, equivalent to one gram of marijuana and a half bottle of Wine. During the fermentation process converts grape sugar into alcohol, and alcohol extracts the psychoactive component THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) in marijuana. The resulting wine, in some cases, is aged for nine months in the same barrels, before bottling, to have an upbringing that gives also the aromas of madera.Como course to better ingredients, better result.

Actually, the wine or wine Pot Marijuana is not a recent invention, for it was made in the 1980s, but was used as a base then a rosé to be faster to develop, and more interested in the taste and effects marijuana of product quality. Back then, the price of cannabis wine bottles could reach up to $ 100 a bottle, because it was an illegal, high risk distribution.

Today, in California, the penalty for possession of a bottle of this wine does not exceed, the same $100, in the absence of a criminal record. Anyway, still would require a change in the current regulations for the California Wine Pot Marijuana or wine distibution began its commercially.