Marijuana-Laced 'Happy Pizza' Taken off the Menu in Cambodia

Posted by Adam Kuban, April 10, 2008 at 2:40 PM

'Last Dance with Mary Jane'

It's been the pizza topping of choice among debauched backpackers in Cambodia for years, but a crackdown on marijuana in the Southeast Asian country is putting an end to "happy pizza" there, thanks to the Cambodian government's fight against drugs.

... foreign inspiration transformed the drug into arguably the world's most talked-about pizza topping. Dozens of happy pizza parlours sprang up around the country as backpack tourism boomed.
But now the Cambodian government's current battle against drugs has given "pizza wars" a whole new meaning.
This week marijuana was claimed as Cambodia's first "total victory" in eliminating a drug from both domestic and export markets by Interior Ministry anti-drug chief, Police General Lou Ramin.
"Marijuana is no longer a problem in Cambodia," he declared. "We are strengthening our monitoring throughout the country and its borders."

Related: Weed Pizza Recipe [StonerChef.com]

Happy Pizza in Phnom Penh (by savannaratream)

Photograph from Savannara on Flickr

Happy (Weed) Pizza

Adapted from StonerChef.com

Ingredients

1 ounce cannabis
1 pizza, oven-ready
1 cup mozzarella

Procedure

Using a coffee grinder, food processor or similar device, grind cannabis into a fine powder. Spread cannabis evenly over pizza by sprinkling gently; then follow with the mozzarella. Instead of adhering strictly to the recommended pizza-baking directions, carefully cook the pizza for two or three minutes longer than stated at 25 degrees below the recommended temperature.

Update: In the comments, ChiefHDB mentions cooking the weed in some sort of oil or fat to release the THC. This thread on marijuana.com touches on the concept, and posits that the oil from the melted cheese is being used as the vehicle to absorb the chemical. Not that Slice is necessarily advocating following this recipe, that is.

7 Comments

Tags: Cambodia, drugs, pizza and pot

7 Comments:

The thought of pot on a pizza makes my mouth unhappy.

unarata at 3:22PM on 04/10/08

this week marijuana was claimed as Cambodia's first "total victory" in eliminating a drug from both domestic and export markets

Haha, good one there, Chief.

Luther at 4:07PM on 04/10/08

Not to sound like a total stoner, but you're really supposed to heat the marijuana with some kind of fat, i.e. butter or oil in order to release the thc so you dont actually have to eat the marijuana. Just sayin'

ChiefHDB at 4:25PM on 04/10/08

It still doesnt beat a bhang lassi in rajistan. Wow I laughed my socks off for hours!!

jennywenny at 6:00PM on 04/10/08

*raises hand* what does marijuana taste like?

onedaylingers at 10:18PM on 04/10/08

Like chicken, of course!

hatlady at 1:33PM on 04/11/08

What will all those Lonely planeteers do now?

They'll go to Laos and smoke opium, or dissolve it in tea or go to Myanmar.

In Phnom Pen I remember there was something called *Space shuttle* which was vodka steeped with cannabis. A poor mans absinthe if you will.

Stiv61 at 10:20PM on 04/11/08

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