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U.S. restaurateur is hoping to use marijuana to get the crustaceans high before putting them into boiling water, but health inspectors and experts question its legality Your death is imminent. It will be painful. Minutes beforehand, your executioner hands you… a joint. “If somebody offered me that option and said, ‘Hey, do you want to do this first?’” said Charlotte Gill, the owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor, Maine, “I would say a resounding ‘yes.’” Ms. Gill wants to present that opportunity to the crustaceans whose deaths her business is built on, trying to use marijuana to get them high so they have a painless, stress-free plunge into boiling water. In recent days, Ms. Gill’s methods have generated a fair amount of publicity as well as a healthy dose of skepticism: Can lobsters even get high? Do they feel pain? If a lobster can and does get high, could someone who eats it absorb the marijuana? And is any of this even allowed? The answer to that last question appears to be no, at least for now. The State’s health inspectors “would treat food served to consumers at licensed eating places and affected by marijuana, as has been described with this establishment, as adulterated and therefore illegal,” Emily Spencer, a spokeswoman for the State’s Department of Health and Human Services, said Thursday. “At this time,” she added, regulators do not “have information on the health implications or effects of ‘sedating’ lobsters with marijuana.” In the course of her experiments with lobsters, Ms. Gill has unwittingly arrived at the forefront of marijuana science and regulation.
