Chapter 1
Welcome to Aunt Sandyâs Kitchen
Ever since I was a teenager I have loved cooking. My home-style cooking can best be described as âcomfort food.â As I began to understand the therapeutic benefits of cooking with marijuana, I learned how these foods can also help to heal a personâs mind as well as their body. I am delighted that Aunt Sandyâs Medical Marijuana CookbookâComfort Food for Mind and Body can help you to learn the secrets of cooking with marijuana so that you too can provide relief and joy with foods from your kitchen.
O ne of the greatest feelings in the world is to cook wonderful food that people love. When that food also has the power to help a person feel better both physically and emotionally, that feeling becomes even greater. Early on I realized the therapeutic value of the cannabis plant, long before the idea came back to the mainstream. I began cooking marijuana foods in 1974 to help my brother relieve his chronic pain. At the time, I was naïve and just added a bag of marijuanaâsticks, seeds, stemsâand all to a cookie recipe and my poor brother had to eat it. Even though the cannabis did its job, the cookie was difficult to eat and had the bitter taste of chlorophyll from the plant material. Over the years I have perfected the process and have developed methods that enhance the taste of the food while lessening the harsh taste of marijuana.
Iâve lived in California my whole life and have been a medical marijuana advocate for decades. In 1996 California passed the groundbreaking medical marijuana law Proposition 215, which allowed me to further explore the benefits of marijuana cooking in a safe and legal environment. I now have hundreds of patients that depend on my tasty, medicated foods to make their world a better place.
Currently I prepare my dishes for a select group of medical marijuana dispensing collectives in California. Being involved with these organizations has given me the opportunity to see first-hand how these foods have the power to change a personâs life and bring them a level of comfort and healing that other medicines could not. When a patient comes up to me and tells me how one of my lemon bars helped her sleep through the night or manage his pain more regularly, it warms my heart. Those moments keep me working hard in the kitchen to provide the very best medicinal foods to the patients I serve. I now teach my craft to students at Oaklandâs revolutionary marijuana trade school, Oaksterdam University, so that others can learn to provide their own comfort foods for themselves or for the patients in their lives.
Iâm proud to be the mother of three successful daughters who support my vision to provide healing foods to patients. My daughters, a nurse, a chef, and a student, have experienced first-hand my passion for making home-cooked marijuana remedies. They have always been my buddies, and they totally understand the medical benefits of cannabis for patients in need. I thank them for their support, which has helped me to discover my callingâcreating flavorful and effective therapies for an increasingly wider patient base.
My kitchen is a place of compassion and healing. While there are still certain legal and societal hurdles to jump to provide medical marijuana, I do not worry because I know whole-heartedly that what I am doing is right. It is unacceptable for those who oppose marijuana to allow for patients to suffer because of lack of understanding or misinformation about this wonderful and healing plant. Patients deserve to have safe access to reliable and effective marijuana medicines, and I am honored to be able to do my part to help.
By creating Aunt Sandyâs Medical Marijuana CookbookâComfort Food for Mind and Body , I can help others learn how to cook marijuana foods that help bring relief and wellness to their lives. Most of the recipes in this book are easy enough to make, no matter how
Welcome to Aunt Sandyâs Kitchen
Ever since I was a teenager I have loved cooking. My home-style cooking can best be described as âcomfort food.â As I began to understand the therapeutic benefits of cooking with marijuana, I learned how these foods can also help to heal a personâs mind as well as their body. I am delighted that Aunt Sandyâs Medical Marijuana CookbookâComfort Food for Mind and Body can help you to learn the secrets of cooking with marijuana so that you too can provide relief and joy with foods from your kitchen.
O ne of the greatest feelings in the world is to cook wonderful food that people love. When that food also has the power to help a person feel better both physically and emotionally, that feeling becomes even greater. Early on I realized the therapeutic value of the cannabis plant, long before the idea came back to the mainstream. I began cooking marijuana foods in 1974 to help my brother relieve his chronic pain. At the time, I was naïve and just added a bag of marijuanaâsticks, seeds, stemsâand all to a cookie recipe and my poor brother had to eat it. Even though the cannabis did its job, the cookie was difficult to eat and had the bitter taste of chlorophyll from the plant material. Over the years I have perfected the process and have developed methods that enhance the taste of the food while lessening the harsh taste of marijuana.
Iâve lived in California my whole life and have been a medical marijuana advocate for decades. In 1996 California passed the groundbreaking medical marijuana law Proposition 215, which allowed me to further explore the benefits of marijuana cooking in a safe and legal environment. I now have hundreds of patients that depend on my tasty, medicated foods to make their world a better place.
Currently I prepare my dishes for a select group of medical marijuana dispensing collectives in California. Being involved with these organizations has given me the opportunity to see first-hand how these foods have the power to change a personâs life and bring them a level of comfort and healing that other medicines could not. When a patient comes up to me and tells me how one of my lemon bars helped her sleep through the night or manage his pain more regularly, it warms my heart. Those moments keep me working hard in the kitchen to provide the very best medicinal foods to the patients I serve. I now teach my craft to students at Oaklandâs revolutionary marijuana trade school, Oaksterdam University, so that others can learn to provide their own comfort foods for themselves or for the patients in their lives.
Iâm proud to be the mother of three successful daughters who support my vision to provide healing foods to patients. My daughters, a nurse, a chef, and a student, have experienced first-hand my passion for making home-cooked marijuana remedies. They have always been my buddies, and they totally understand the medical benefits of cannabis for patients in need. I thank them for their support, which has helped me to discover my callingâcreating flavorful and effective therapies for an increasingly wider patient base.
My kitchen is a place of compassion and healing. While there are still certain legal and societal hurdles to jump to provide medical marijuana, I do not worry because I know whole-heartedly that what I am doing is right. It is unacceptable for those who oppose marijuana to allow for patients to suffer because of lack of understanding or misinformation about this wonderful and healing plant. Patients deserve to have safe access to reliable and effective marijuana medicines, and I am honored to be able to do my part to help.
By creating Aunt Sandyâs Medical Marijuana CookbookâComfort Food for Mind and Body , I can help others learn how to cook marijuana foods that help bring relief and wellness to their lives. Most of the recipes in this book are easy enough to make, no matter how
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