We are now in Scarborough, Maine, the northeastern-most U.S. state. It has one border with Canada and is known for its lighthouses, the Acadia National Park and its beaches with the cool waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Maine is also famed for its lobsters. One Maine lobster pound (a lobster pound is a very casual restaurant where you eat at harbour-side picnic tables) is using marijuana to try to make cooking the crustaceans a little more humane! The business, Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound, is owned by a registered medical marijuana care-giver.

The owner, put a lobster in a box with a few inches of water before marijuana smoke was blown over it. According to the reporter, the crustacean was calmer for the next three weeks, and was released back into the ocean.

It’s really an unknown science as to whether pot smoke actually calms lobsters or has any effect on their meat.  Perhaps the calmness resonates with the customer ordering the lobster and makes them feel better, who knows!

Here is our plate of “Steamers” – succulent clams that have been steamed and are served with quarters of lemon and a pot of dipping butter! The butter was not needed as the clams with just a squeeze of lemon were fantastic.

Mike orders the Lobster plate – the meat of two lobsters, covered with breadcrumbs and served hot with corn. 

Our view at Bayley’s Lobster Pot restaurant in Scarborough, Maine. The tide is just starting to come in!