Marius Lazauskas, a Master student of Architecture, Building and Planning from Lithuania, is curious to find out if anyone has ever had the idea of combining the two most famous products in the Netherlands: cheese and weed. He did spot ‘magic’ muffins somewhere already. “So my question would be: do you have any ‘magic’ cheese?”

According to Joeri Boerlage of the information center Cannabis College in Amsterdam it should in any case be possible to make weed cheese. “The active ingredient, THC, adheres well to fatty cells, so this would work well with cheese. However, I don’t know whether the process of cheese production is conducive to its effectiveness.” And as far as he knows, there is no space cheese as yet.

A telephonic quest that takes us along coffee shops and cheese retailers in Gouda and Alkmaar, Holland’s most famous cheese cities, does not produce any result. Some more online investigations lead to the self-appointed cannabis expert Willem Brandenburg from Utrecht, who says that he is sounding out the possibilities for producing space cheese. “I went to visit a number of cheese dairies in Gouda. One company thought it was a fun idea, but it is quite expensive; the equipment required easily costs some sixty thousand euros.”

As we are not entirely sure how serious Brandenburg’s plans are, the conclusion is: weed cheese does not exist , Marius! (SK)