Maine Restaurant to Sedate Lobsters With Marijuana Before Cooking Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound is experimenting with a method to relieve their lobsters' pain during the cooking process. Charlotte Gill, via the 'Mount Desert Islander' For the restaurant's first experiment, a lobster was placed into a box with a few inches of water, Gill observed the lobster's behavior rather than cooking him up The lobster named Roscoe was much calmer and less aggressive for the next three weeks. Roscoe was released back into the ocean, She hopes all lobsters she serves next season will be sedated first,