Good old American inventiveness is hard at work in Washington State, as businesses there try to find new ways to use marijuana. The latest product to come from the state is cannabis coffee in easy-to-use K-cups.
Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop in Seattle is selling Catapult “premium infused coffee” for $10 a pop, reports Yahoo Finance. Each pod contains 10 mg of THC, which is about equal to standard marijuana edibles.
“I liken it to a Red Bull and vodka,” Uncle Ike’s sales manager Jennifer Lanzado told Yahoo. “I had more energy, but I still had the relaxation you get from cannabis.”
According to The Huffington Post, this isn’t the first time businesses in Washington have started mixing pot with coffee. A coffee “drinkable” called Legal with 22 mg of THC hit stores in June 2014. Fairwinds Manufacturing in Vancouver, Washington is also making infused coffee, which Uncle Ike’s is selling.
“It is a very exciting time for this industry and providing safe ways to ingest THC is a great alternative to smoking,” Lanzado told the Huffington Post.
Recreational marijuana became legal in Washington State after a ballot measure passed in 2012. Recreational marijuana is also legal in Colorado, Alaska and Oregon.
image from FairwindsManufacturing.com