A sweet, single-serving lesson on marijuana edibles

DENVER, Colorado — The edibles market in Colorado is sweet on education.

But smoking marijuana and consuming a THC-infused edible create two vastly different experiences. So when the state legalized recreational marijuana, allowing any adult over the age of 21 years to purchase cannabis products, guidelines for edibles consumption needed to be put in place.

The dosages on marijuana edibles aren't just for those experimenting with cannabis for the first time — or the first time since their college days — they're for everyone. Prior to the state of Colorado setting a standard dosage, most people didn't know the size of a single-serving.

 

Single-serving cannabis-infused cookies.

"Recreational enforcement requires a single serving to be at 10mg or less of active THC," Julie Berliner, CEO of Sweet Grass Kitchen, told Mashable. "They arrived at 10mg as being a medium serving for consumption for someone that isn't as used to using...

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