A first-person review of the hemp-derived THC cocktail base I poured at our Cannabis Cup in New York. What’s in it, how it hits, and why I haven’t stopped pouring it.
The Short Version
Hemp-derived Delta-9 THC. Federally compliant. Real black currant.
5mg THC plus 10mg THCV per 1.5oz pour. About sixteen pours per 750ml.
Onset in ten to fifteen minutes. Clear-headed and social. Not a sleepy seltzer.
Made by cannabis people. The 750ml bottle carried our table at the NY Cannabis Cup.
There’s a moment at almost every event when the bar opens. The bottles come out. The wines, the whiskeys, the canned cocktails, the beers. The room shifts.
I’m not anti-alcohol. I drink it. I just don’t always want it.
That was the situation at our Cannabis Cup in New York. The bar was open. I had the option. I was off the clock by then. But I knew what alcohol would do to me at this particular event. It would soften the conversations I actually wanted to remember, slow me down for the rest of the night and ruin the morning after.
So I reached for the bottle on our table instead. Black currant color. 750ml. Hemp-derived Delta-9 THC.
I poured it for myself, then for the colleague next to me, then for the friend who walked over, then for the four other people who saw what we were doing and asked what it was.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, I slipped another bottle to Josh Kesselman, High Times’ publisher and a good friend who’s famously not a drinker.
“You know I don’t drink,” Josh said.
“What you don’t know yet is, this isn’t booze. It’s weed.”
He laughed and took the bottle home.
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
