Pass the cream and the cannabis coffee, please ...
Hitting the market soon is a new type of coffee pot … or, more to the point, pot coffee.
In the wake of California’s legalization of medical marijuana and its green light for recreational marijuana use, San Diego tech-oriented entrepreneurs have come up with a new wake-up call: cannabis coffee pods. Each pod has 10 milligrams of THC, marijuana’s active ingredient.
Called Brewbudz, the marijuana flower-containing Arabica coffee beans pods are designed to pop into your Keurig machine to brew cannabis coffee. (Or, cannabis cocoa for non-coffee lovers.) Its website says French vanilla and hazelnut flavors are next.
The San Diego-based company, Cannabiniers, introduced its Brewbudz at the recent Hightimes Cannabis Cup in Nevada, touting its java as ideal in social situations where smoking isn’t appropriate. The price? $7 a pop — not too far afield from a cup of Starbucks.
Cannabiniers’ Vice President Jeffry Paul said it’s being rolled out in Nevada in early July and in California about 60 days later. The coffee pods will be sold at medical marijuana dispensaries. A doctor’s prescription will be necessary until California’s recreational use guidelines go into effect after the first of the year.
For the non-coffee aficionados, BrewBudz offers a weed-infused tea. Its first flavors are breakfast blend (black) and chamomile with green tea soon to come.
Crowning touch: Tim Berthiaume doesn’t mind being called a loser — in fact, the San Diego man is king of the losers. And he is being crowned this weekend in Sacramento, along with Robin Kimball, a Salinas woman named queen of the losers.
Berthiaume lost 76 pounds and Kimball lost 104 pounds via will power and the moral support of fellow members of TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). That’s a nonprofit, non-commercial weight-loss support group founded in 1948.
TOPS doesn’t promote a particular diet but offers nutritional education, weight loss tips, weekly chapter meetings and recognition of members’ success at its annual meeting.
Berthiaume, who confesses to loving his chow, grew serious about weight loss after being diagnosed as borderline diabetic. But his diet took a hit when he twisted his ankle, tore a tendon and had to undergo surgery. The mishap left him using crutches and a knee scooter, making exercise difficult, at best.
“I let the other TOPS members know how critical their support would be,” said Berthiaume, the lone male in his chapter when he joined. “Every week I would get phone calls about how I was doing on my weight loss journey.”
He can thank many his supporters in person at the TOPS celebratory gathering this weekend in Sacramento.
On exhibit: Pete Wilson has built a lengthy resumé and political reputation as San Diego’s former mayor, state legislator, U.S. senator and California governor.
However, it’s his patriotism, not his political persona, that’s being recognized this weekend at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Wilson, a Marine Corps officer in the mid-1950s, is a longtime museum trustee and served as board chairman from 2006-09. On Saturday, his family, friends and former staffers are gathering around as an 80-foot liberty flagstaff in the museum courtyard is dedicated in his honor.
In 1999, Wilson joined an elite list of Americans as a recipient of the highest award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society — the Patriot Award.
Beach sighting: Shark bites were a concern Thursday when a great white shark was spotted off Coronado’s Silver Strand beach. But later that evening, TV’s “Beach Bites” with Katie Lee focused, instead, on humans consuming fish.
The Cooking Channel show, which premiered June 1, chronicled Katie Lee flying from a dinner of grilled mango jerk chicken in Florida to the Sand Bar in Mission Beach to chow down on grilled fish tacos.
Master feat: Fearless San Diego chef Lauren Lawless, who tackles fileting, marinating, grilling and roasting such delicacies as eyeballs, intestines, tongue and bugs, made it into the top 40 contestants of “MasterChef’s” Season 8 season debut. (San Diego cook Claudia Sandoval won the Season 6 competition.)
Alas, Lawless was among the 20 contestants eliminated May 31 during the opening episode on Fox TV.
But the self-taught chef and working single mother from Pacific Beach isn’t wasting time feeling sorry for herself. She is starting a Facebook live show, “Flawless Lawless Cuisine,” in July or August and plans to publish a cookbook this year.
Two other amateur chefs with San Diego ties remain in the “Master Chef” competition, however. Ballet dancer Dino Luciano and magazine ad salesman Brien O’Brien — are heating up the air waves.
A show of pride: San Diego has an up-front presence at the Capital Pride Parade today in Washington, D.C., where San Diego gay rights activist Nicole Murray-Ramirez will serve as a grand marshal.
On Sunday, he’ll salute LGBT Armed Services veterans and active duty military, including a San Diego contingent, at the Washington Monument rally following The Equality March for Unity and Pride.
Sunday’s national march, a year after the nightclub massacre in Orlando, is taking place simultaneously in 110 U.S. cities, including San Diego at 10 a.m.
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Pass the cream and the cannabis coffee, please ...
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