If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, imagine what a pancake breakfast might do for medical marijuana.

Marijuana is only legal for medical purposes in California, but that isn't stopping purveyors of pot-infused cupcakes, nuts and other edible forms of the drug from putting on an outdoor food festival to showcase their wares.

The "Get Baked Sale" happening Saturday at a food truck hub in San Francisco comes as marijuana advocates are working to legalize recreational use of the drug through a statewide voter initiative in November 2016.

"It's going to be legal next year, so if we integrate it now, people can come see what it's like and have fun, that it's not what they think and it's definitely going mainstream," event creator Jared Stratton said.

With three other festivals also taking place in the city on Saturday, the San Francisco Police Department does not plan to have officers at the food fair checking that only people legally permitted to use medical marijuana are the only ones chowing down or to stop them from lighting up in public, Officer Grace Gatpandan, a department spokeswoman, said.

"It's not super on our radar," Gatpandan said. "We just want people to have a good time and if there are families that go there, to keep it cool."