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The buzz around THC drinks is going flat
Business Insider ^ | 8/12/25 | Emily Stewart

Posted on 08/13/2025 12:45:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Same drink, different year — and, hopefully, different result. That's Mark Thomas Lynn's approach to the relaunch of Afterdream, a cannabis drink, this year.

His company — the premium spirits and beverage company AMASS Brands Group — originally released its THC-infused formulation in 2021, but they pulled it off the market after about nine months due to legal hurdles around where and how they could sell the drink.

"Even though people were going crazy over the product, we were like, 'Oh my God, this is just too byzantine,'" he says. "The regulations, basically, hadn't caught up." After re-releasing Afterdream in May of this year, AMASS is hoping its second rodeo will be more successful. The regulatory environment is still challenging, but it's not a complete mess, and they think more consumers will give it a shot.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: addiction; coffee; drugtruth; potheads; thc

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Take it for what it is worth. Not a fan of THC, don't partake, but there is a local talk show host(Mark Davis, KSKY 660) who hates THC.

I think he is hypocritical. He never says anything about a Starbucks on every corner, while saying that THC gummies are aimed at teenagers.

Not a big coffee fan either.

Discuss and flame away.

1 posted on 08/13/2025 12:45:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
people were going crazy over the product

Something is causing the rise in mental illness.

2 posted on 08/13/2025 12:46:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t see hypocrisy in having different attitudes toward caffeine and THC.

Imagine that you have your choice of two pilots to fly you and your family in a jet aircraft: Pilot A smoked two joints an hour ago. Pilot B drank two espressos an hour ago. Which pilot would you prefer?


3 posted on 08/13/2025 12:56:47 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

I use THC as pain relief from arthritis symptoms. Works like a charm.


4 posted on 08/13/2025 1:07:59 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: irishjuggler
Good arguement, but what about a pilot who had 5 espressos.

I know people who are always drinking coffee.

Not anti coffee, just saying there is a coffee shop every 100 feet in some airports, but I could imagine the uproar, if the government decided to regulate coffee.

5 posted on 08/13/2025 1:11:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Tried the gummies. Don’t like the loss of function and loss of short-term memory. Watching TV is worthless. Every new scene on the same show is like a whole new show and I can’t remember what just happened but for some reason recognize the same characters. Now I sort of know what it was like for my mother with Alzheimer’s. Don’t need to recreate that on purpose for myself.


6 posted on 08/13/2025 1:22:42 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ClearCase_guy

Legalized pot is a huge problem and turning pot into a drink is a very bad idea that is going to cause even worse problems


7 posted on 08/13/2025 1:47:50 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

BTTT


8 posted on 08/13/2025 1:53:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Stick with Indica. Sativa tends to put my arthritis pain into overdrive, not fun.


9 posted on 08/13/2025 2:02:58 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: DallasBiff

To maintain control over the Russian people the Tzar pushed vodka. The idea was to keep the people so stoned that they wouldn’t revolt. The same is true of marihuana. While I have known people who were smart and productive and who used pot, I’ve known far more people who were stoned, nonproductive and unemployed. Because drugs modify brain cells they are especially damaging to underaged youth. Legalizing drugs will, in the future, be blamed for many problems we see already, but are blamed on other causes.


10 posted on 08/13/2025 2:14:34 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: DallasBiff

Gummies are aimed at kids, so he is right. They bitched about cigarettes and are now pushing pot which smells even worse.

I wonder if they truly are trying to dumb down the whole population. It is the only explanation I got for support for faggotry, Trans, and other woke crap being pushed and encouraged the last 10 years.


11 posted on 08/13/2025 2:25:43 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35

The Chinese revenge for the opium dens.


12 posted on 08/13/2025 2:26:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I’d still take “cinque espressi” guy over the stoner. The former might be pretty wired but he’s very unlikely to be in a bout of paranoia or delusion as happens sometimes to the THC folks.


13 posted on 08/13/2025 2:33:53 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: DallasBiff

Not even the same argument. Coffee doesn’t make you fall asleep and get stupid. THC and pot does. Only a stoner would even think to make that comparison.


14 posted on 08/13/2025 2:47:45 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: irishjuggler

“Imagine that you have your choice of two pilots to fly you and your family in a jet aircraft: Pilot A smoked two joints an hour ago. Pilot B drank two espressos an hour ago. Which pilot would you prefer?”

The purpose of flight is to get high. Pilot A was there before he ever got to the airport. No brainer.


15 posted on 08/13/2025 2:51:29 PM PDT by Ueriah
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To: packrat35

No one is making the arguement that you should actually fly planes when you are high.

As a frequent THC enjoyer, I do understand that the same common sense rules we used to have about alcohol mostly work with THC as well. Don’t get high and fly planes, drive buses, do brain surgery, etc. But if it’s the weekend and you have nothing going on and want to smoke a joint instead of drinking than go for it. It’s probably a little bit healthier than booze and it serves the same purpose.


16 posted on 08/13/2025 2:54:13 PM PDT by Ueriah
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To: Ueriah

The purpose of flight is to get high. Pilot A was there before he ever got to the airport. No brainer.


“I go flying so high when I’m stoned.”


17 posted on 08/13/2025 2:56:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

“All good things got to come to an end
It’s the same with the wildwood weeds
One day this feller from Washington come by
And spied ‘em and turned white as a sheet
And he dug and he burned
And he burned and he dug
And he killed all our cute little weeds
And then he drove away
We just smiled and waved
Sittin’ there on that sack o’ seeds”.

Songwriters: Don Bowman / Jim Stafford


18 posted on 08/13/2025 3:52:24 PM PDT by kawhill ("The second one it was like we was both back in the older times and I was a horseback")
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To: jpp113

“ Sativa tends to put my arthritis pain into overdrive, not fun.”

Weekends it’s Sativa and the beach. Wandering around in the ocean helps.


19 posted on 08/13/2025 5:06:16 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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