'Get Baked' sale features samples of marijuana munchies

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More than 25 local cannabis businesses hosted a bake sale Saturday, complete with “medical” marijuana-laced munchies.

The first Get Baked Sale, held at the SOMAStreat Food Park on 11th Street, included food trucks and booths lined with all sorts of wares — including Doritos, Chilean empanadas, ice cream sandwiches, pancakes and macaroons — for holders of medical marijuana cards to sample. The event featured cooking demonstrations and food-pairings with marijuana edibles. The pointy green leaves symbolic of the plant were rife on clothing, posters and stickers.

“This is truly the crumbling of an archaic symbol,” said Steve Medina, stirring cannabis sugar into a cup of coffee. “As the walls and legal limits have come down, the cannabis market has blossomed. It’s liberating.”

The sale comes as marijuana advocates move toward legalizing recreational use of the drug with a ballot initiative planned for November. But possession of marijuana is still...

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