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Edibles and Drinkables: Your Safe Consumption

Kudos to the consumers of pot brownies everywhere—you’ve paid your dues. After years of inconsistent batches, untraceable strains and the trial-and-error recipes of DIY cannabis chefs, you’ll be happy to know that legal edibles are finally here. The selection is vast, the dosing is measured and the products are regulated.
Whether you’re an edibles veteran or just canna-curious, the diverse selection of cannabis-infused food and drinks should make you happy even before you indulge. Chocolate and gummies are staples. There are a variety of cannabis beverages with innovative formulations. And it won’t be long before your cannabis shopping list starts to mirror your grocery list with candies, lollipops, peanut butter, mints, water, sports drinks, popcorn and pizza sauce. Yes, pizza sauce! Cannabis can be substituted in any recipe that requires butter or oil.
Definition: Cannabis-infused food and beverages.
Types of products: Cookies, chocolates, candies, teas, sodas and more.
Edibles go through your digestive system. They are processed and metabolized in your liver before going back into your bloodstream and then into your brain. In the case of chewable edibles—even those we don’t swallow, like mints and candies—the process takes a slight detour, since the membranes in your mouth are the first contact and active ingredients reach your bloodstream sublingually before reaching your liver.
You can trace ingestible cannabis back to the Stone Age. This time period also coincides with cultural advancements in music and art (wink wink). Edibles have roots in China and India dating back thousands of years. Hindu culture embraced Bhang, a cannabis-infused drink that’s still used today. But it was those pot brownies that really made edibles popular. In the early 1900s, American poet Alice B. Toklas came up with a recipe for "hash fudge.” The 1960s counterculture built on her recipe and soon we had brownies, cakes and cookies that made us feel better than ever without that funny smell.
Health Canada recommends products containing a maximum of 2.5mg of THC. Products are regulated to contain no more than 10mg of THC per package.
Onset times:
It may take up to 4 hours for you to feel anything and the effects can last up to 12 hours, with residual effects lasting up to 24 hours.
What happens if you take too much:
Remember the rule: dose low and go slow. If you unintentionally overindulge, you’ll feel some unwanted effects. The good news is that they’ll go away…eventually. Here’s what you should do in the meantime:
Relax and rest.
Stay hydrated.
Avoid alcohol and caffeine.
Take a shower.
Sleep it off.
Tweed Bakerstreet chocolate bars
Tokyo Smoke Go chocolate bars
Tokyo Smoke Pause chocolate bars
Tokyo Smoke Ease CBD chocolate
Bean & Bud high quality deluxe chocolate
Chocolate:
Aurora Drift Sea salt caramel chocolate
Aurora Drift 64% cocoa dark chocolate
Aurora Drift Chocolate with caramel centre
Gummies:
Aurora Drift Grape Oasis (Indica)
Aurora Drift Raspberry (Sativa)
Aurora Drift Peach Serene (CBD)
San Rafael Blaspberry (Indica)
San Rafael Pineapple (Sativa)
Cookies:
Aurora Drift Soft-baked chocolate cookies (Hybrid)
Mints:
Aurora Drift Peppermint Chillers (Hybrid)
Aurora Drift Spearmint Chillers (Hybrid)
Chowie Wowie THC/CBD chocolates
Chowie Wowie THC/CBD mint
Rmdy CBD mints
Rmdy CBD melts
Goodship THC/CBD gourmet chocolate
Foray soft chews
Foray chocolates
KLP mints
KLP soft chews
Orange Edibles
DRINKABLES
Definition: Cannabis-infused beverages
Types of products available: Sparkling water, spring water, flavoured soda, tea
Houseplant grapefruit beverage
Houseplant lemon beverage
Coming soon -
-Beverages from Tweed, Quatreau and Deep Space
-“Distilled Cannabis” branded spirits
Haven St tea bags
Truss spring water
Truss drops (water-soluable THC drops)
Fluent beverages (in partnership with Labatt’s)
Health Canada recommends products containing a maximum of 2.5mg of THC. Products are regulated to contain no more than 10mg of THC per package.
Onset times:
It may take up to 4 hours for you to feel anything and the effects can last up to 12 hours with residual effects lasting up to 24 hours. For new drinkables products with formulas that increase onset times, effects should appear within 10 to 15 minutes.
What happens if you take too much:
Remember the rule - “dose low and go slow”. However if you unintentionally overindulge you’ll feel some unwanted effects. The good news is that they’ll go away…eventually. Here’s what you should do in the meantime:
Relax and rest.
Stay hydrated.
Avoid alcohol and caffeine.
Take a shower.
Sleep it off.

VAPING

Definition: Inhaling vaporized cannabis derived from dried flower or concentrated oil, aka “concentrates.”

How it works: The process of vaporizing cannabis involves heating dried flower or cannabis oil to a temperature that turns the plant’s active ingredients into vapor.

Types of products:

There are three main methods to vaporize cannabis: tabletop vaporizers, portable vaporizers and vape pens. Each has their own benefits. Tabletop vaporizers are stationary and offer a range of temperature controls. Portable vaporizers are smaller and battery-operated. Vape pens are designed to look like a traditional pen except with a battery and cartridge for your concentrates.

How they work:

Vaping is an alternative for those who prefer their cannabis inhaled. You can vape both dried flower and cannabis concentrates. Vaping begins to produce effects within minutes. Recent media coverage of vaping-related illnesses have largely been attributed to toxins produced from inhaling tobacco using this method. Similar to edibles, standardization and regulatory requirements reduce the risk of using vapes that might contain harmful additives.

The history of vaping:

Inhaling vapor goes back over 200 years in the tobacco industry. In the 1920s, an electronic vaporizer was first developed for medical patients. It wasn’t until 1963 that an American named Herbert Gilbert invented the first smokeless cigarette. In the mid-2000s, vaping started to gain popularity in Europe as an alternative to cigarettes.

Dosage guidelines for vaping products:

Health Canada suggests starting with THC levels of 100mgs or less with equal or higher levels of THC. Onset times are similar to smoked cannabis. New users should start with a kit which includes all of the necessary products for vaping.

Who Makes What:

Canopy Growth

Tweed branded vape products

Juju Joints disposable vape pens

Juju Joints bluetooth-enabled vape products

Aurora

Aurora Drift 510 vape cartridges

Aurora Drift disposable vape pens

San Rafael Tangerine Dream disposable vape pens and 510 cartridges (Sativa)

San Rafael Pink Kush disposable vape pens and 510 cartridges (Indica)

Auxly

Foray disposable vape pens

Foray 510 cartridges

KLP disposable vape pens

KLP 510 cartridges

Troy Tobey Collection/Niagara Herbalist.

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