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pinch of sugar. A dash of cinnamon. A swirl of vanilla. And a knockout sprinkle of indica. Cannabis can take on many forms. We dare you to take a taste.

BLAZIN’ BAKERY

In a border state like Maine, it’s a race to create more Franco-American baked goods.

“My mom was quite the baker,” says Cameron Boucher of Medible Delights in Lewiston. “She grew up in a French household. The whole company structure, working with family, really feels like home. It’s what keeps us going. Our whole cooking style is really French. That doesn’t just mean we use a lot of butter. Like our caramels—it’s a family recipe.”

Some of Boucher’s favorite new treats are based on goodies “I remember from my childhood. I grew up eating chocolate-dipped pretzel rods—non-dosed, of course—that Mom would make around Christmas. And now they’re 25 mg edibles.”

Medible Delight’s custom orders give them a Maine edge in the edibles market. “What we do here you can’t do in some other states,” Boucher says. “A customer wants a 500 mg birthday cake? We can do that!”

Ethical Edibles

“You know, it always struck me [that] indoor cannabis is not environmentally sound,” says Damon Holman of Wind Hill Growers in Fayette. “I know I’ll ruffle some feathers saying that.” Under the hashtag #SociallyConsciousCannabis, Holman and his wife, Sonja Beeker, concoct edibles using sun-grown cannabis from their hilltop farm in western Maine. “We grow organically, we’re single source.”

Holman, a lifelong Mainer, “grew up on an organic farm helping my family produce all of our own food. We tapped maple trees and boiled syrup. So I have a lot of background in higher quality food.

“I’ve been making chocolate since I was a kid. I always made truffles on Christmas for my family.” Today, he and Beeker dazzle customers with an array of gourmet Belgian chocolate bars, as well as grain-free, vegan “Coconutties” and signature bonbons (European-style hard candies).

Wind Hill also sells cannabis-infused coconut oil, maple syrup, and EVOO, inspiring customers to create their own homemade edibles. “We love these products ourselves. We’re big home cooks.”

Cannabis Cocktails

Chef Zack Squier knew he’d struck gold when he first released a cannabis-infused cocktail recipe. “The emails and DMs were pouring in, and that’s when the light bulb went on. I was like, oh, man, there might be something to these drink mixers!”

Portland-based Squier’s Specialty Edibles now boasts a mouth-watering menu of mixers, headlined by the crowd favorite Blueberry Lemon Drink Mixer. “We’re making everything from scratch, with 100 percent real fruit,” Squier says. “We start with 200 pounds of Maine blueberries, fresh lemons, organic blue agave, solventless hash, and that’s it.

“We want to put just as much care into the food ingredients as the growers and extractors put into actually growing the cannabis. People take a beautiful product that someone spent months growing and extracting, then just put in food coloring and artificial flavors. Why would you do that?” n