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Sooner or later · 07-23-2019, 05:07 PM

My old home town!

https://www.kswo.com/2019/07/23/marijuana-ice-cream-facility-calls-lawton-home/

LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Hand-made medical marijuana ice cream is taking dispensaries across the state by storm, and the product originated right here in Lawton.

The product is called OK Nice Cream. One hundred percent of the work, from creating the ice cream, getting it packaged and stored, and ultimately shipping it out, happens in Lawton. The product has only been available for sale since the end of March but despite that, in just 4 months, they’re being sold at 64 dispensaries in all corners of the state.

"We actually have a local grower here in town who provides us with marijuana in its leafy, bud form. We take that and we make an extract out of that using heavy cream. Once that extract is finished, we take each of the components of ice cream and using our 30-gallon pasteurizer, we actually make an ice cream base from scratch,” Fischer said.

Once they have that base, it’s time to flavor the ice cream.

"With either a local coffee that is roasted over in Duncan, or we use a whole cacao bean to make the chocolate version or whole vanilla beans to actually make a vanilla custard,” Fischer said.

That ice cream has now made its way to 64 dispensaries.

"Ranging from Fort Smith Arkansas basically, all the way to Kansas, to the Oklahoma panhandle, almost all the way back down into Texas,” said Derrell Morgan with OK Nice Cream.

Those 64 are just the start.

That growth could bring even bigger things to Lawton.

"The potential for Lawton as a whole is grand here. We might be small here with three people but the size of Oklahoma, the size of the growth potential of the market means a year from now we could have 20 Lawtonians working down here and contributing to the overall economic growth of the community. That’s important to us, we’re Lawtonians too,” Fischer said.

Right now, OK Nice Cream has 4 flavors -- cold pressed coffee, chocolate, vanilla and a coconut sorbet. They also have an ice cream bar and Fischer said they will soon offer Mexican-styled whole fruit bars. The ice cream runs $40 a pint and the bars are $13 each. You can learn more about them, including what dispensaries you can buy them at here.