Cannabis Beverages at Thanksgiving 2023

How about some cannabis beverages at your Thanksgiving gatherings this year? Maybe your crazy uncle won't get belligerent, because that's just not what happens when you drink a cannabis beverage.

Before you declare your Thanksgiving shopping done, go pick up some cannabis beverages at the dispensary (or gas station, grocery store or liquor store if you're living in a state that realizes this is where social beverage consumption is headed).

Give your guests a new beverage to be thankful for this holiday season.

#normalizethanksgivingweed

Side note - This is also a great way to get high without annoying your entire family with the smoke cloud you bring into the house from your pre and post walks.

Hemp Derived Beverage Availability

Regarding cannabis beverages, I would prefer to see regulators focus on regulating the PRODUCTS to ensure the consumers that desire them have SAFE access to them. Consumers have demonstrated demand for these products. Banning them is not the move.

1. Low dose hemp derived THC beverages everywhere you can buy beer (groceries, gas stations, restaurants, etc.) It’s important to maintain strict policies surrounding packaging and branding to ensure that no products are attractive to children. E.g. NO gummies in this channel obviously.

2. Higher dose, heavily concentrated beverages in the dispensary channel. Liquor and wine stores as the comparison here.

3. Eventually there should be a third channel of even higher doses and targeted at specific outcomes that will be available through the pharmacies.

I'm still forming my opinion so happy to be challenged on any points here.
The category “edibles” altogether needs to be broken up into two categories, food and beverage. Cannabis beverages will deserve their own category shortly. It’s already getting its own day.

This Sunday is 820, NATIONAL DRINK CANNABIS DAY, enjoy a cannabis beverage.

Pace Functional Energy is Here

New cannabis product development is very interesting to me. Finding products that leverage the cannabis plant to enhance different experiences at different times for different people looks like a decade or so of raw product development opportunity. I am still very often finding out about new ways people are using cannabis. A few years back people started telling me about how they were using cannabis during their workouts or to sustain energy and focus throughout the day. This was about the same time I met Adam and Dylan, the founders of Cantrip, and they said they had their sights set on providing a high quality beverage product to this audience of cannabis users. Now they have.

Pace Functional Energy is Here.

Each can of Pace provides 90 mg of caffeine from green tea and 10 mg of THC for that functional buzz. The flavor Dragonberry features electric dragonfruit and sweet strawberry.

Disclaimer: Receptive Capital is an investor in Cantrip.