Cannabis in Khmer Cuisine

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To do: Verify whether cannabis has documented culinary use in Cambodia; add Khmer terms; avoid speculation; cite primary sources (cookbooks, ethnographies, interviews).

Overview

Claims about cannabis as a culinary ingredient in Cambodia circulate widely, but reliable documentation is uneven. This page collects verifiable evidence (or notes the lack of it) and distinguishes household practice from modern novelty use.

What counts as “cuisine” here

This page covers:

• historically documented culinary use (if any)
• household food preparations that incorporate cannabis (if documented)
• contemporary “stoner food” / tourist-facing novelty dishes (clearly labeled as modern)

Vocabulary

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To do: Add Khmer names for cannabis and any food-preparation terms relevant to infusions.

Documented historical evidence

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To do: Look for: Cambodian cookbooks, colonial-era accounts, ethnobotany, pharmacy/folk-medicine texts; add citations or explicitly state “no evidence found yet.”

Household preparations

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To do: If documented: infusion into fats/oils, teas used alongside meals, etc. Include preparation notes only when supported by sources.

Contemporary / novelty uses

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To do: Tourist markets, urban experimentation, cross-border influence; cite sources.

Relationship to folk medicine

Some preparations may overlap with medicinal practices rather than cuisine proper. When use is primarily therapeutic, document it on Cannabis in Khmer culture and summarize it here.

Related pages

• Cannabis in Khmer culture
• Cambodia
• Cannabis in Cambodia