Maine’s Legendary Lobster Pound, owned by Charlotte Gill, made headlines recently for using marijuana smoke to calm down its lobsters before cooking them.

Gill, along with her employees, had successfully used marijuana smoke to calm lobsters down, according to the New York Times.

While Gill may have had the best intentions to lower the trauma the lobsters feel , it’s actually illegal says Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

“It’s still a very alert lobster, but there’s no sign of agitation, no flailing of legs, no trying to pinch you,” Gill had explained. “So calm, in fact, that you’re able to freely touch the lobster all over without them trying to strike at you or to be aggressive in any way.”

Emily Spencer, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, told the New York Times that the state’s health inspectors “would treat food served to consumers at licensed eating places and affected by marijuana, as has been described with this establishment, as adulterated and therefore illegal.”

Joseph Ayers, a professor of marine and environmental sciences and biology at Northeastern University, had said to the New York Times, “They’re [lobsters] much simpler than insects.”

“They can’t report. This is really from the perspective of how we expect verification from humans. You’re probably never going to get that from a lobster.”


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