California's embrace of marijuana may face snags
A combination of high taxes and the threat of federal intervention could push cannabis growers back underground
Santa Rosa, California
IN THE heart of northern California's wine country, a civil engineer turned marijuana entrepreneur is adding a new dimension to the art of matching fine wines with gourmet food: cannabis and wine pairing dinners.
Sam Edwards, co-founder of the Sonoma Cannabis Co, charges diners US$100 to US$150 for a meal that experiments with everything from marijuana-leaf pesto sauce to sniffs of cannabis flowers paired with sips of a crisp Russian River chardonnay.
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