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People Are Eating Cannabis Edibles With Meals Instead of Drinking Wine — Should We Worry?
A $28 billion hemp boom has made THC gummies easier to buy than ever. But experts warn that pesticides, chemical contaminants, and dangerously high THC levels may be putting consumers at risk
I was recently at a dinner in the Spanish countryside with a group of visitors from Los Angeles. Towards the beginning of the meal, waiters brought red wine glasses the size of bell peppers, and filled each glass. We toasted. When the food arrived, a second waiter poured generously but stopped when one of the Californians dramatically stretched her hand over the rim of her glass.
“No more for me!” she said.
This wasn’t entirely unusual behavior— some people are drinking less, after all, and I’ve seen many limit themselves to just one drink at dinner. But then she took out a tin the size of a makeup compact and twisted open the lid.
“Anyone?” she said, holding up the tin filled with THC-infused chocolate candies. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the primary psychoactive chemical compound found in the cannabis plant that causes a “high.”
