A Marijuana Ice Cream Flavour Sparks Controversy in Italy

In some US states, especially in Colorado, and also in Holland, citizens have become accustomed to buying and consuming all kinds of food items containing cannabis: marijuana-flavoured sweets, gum, beverages and little cookies, often lacking any psychoactive effects, but which leave the pleasant taste of our favourite old plant on the palate.

Other places, especially in Europe, are not used to these innovations. And controversy ensues. Such was the case in Italy, where a trailblazing ice cream shop in the town of Alassio (in the north of the country), encouraged by the organisation Canapa Ligure (dedicating to promoting the beneficial use of cannabis), chose to create a delicious ice cream made using cannabis seeds.

Featuring a greenish hue, and called “Bob Marley” in honour of the singer, the dessert delivers no psychoactive effects from THC, but does conserve the plant’s natural benefits. But not everyone approves of the sale of something that so explicitly alludes to the consumption of cannabis.

Nevertheless, the types of seeds used, without a shell, are lawful in the region, and regularly employed by the textile and energy industries, as well as in medicine, for the fatty acids they contain. They are effective in the prevention of arthrosclerosis, cholesterol, arthritis, and other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

Hence, nobody should worry about these types of foods being on the market. And the fact that organisations concerned about health, like Canapa Ligure, are behind initiatives like this ought to assure all citizens that their health is in good hands. It is high time we changed the ideas of those who are still afraid of the new scenario surrounding cannabis.