Don't Eat the Whole Thing
Publication Date
6-11-2014
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Edibles, Marijuana, Cannabis, Colorado
Abstract
In a 30,000-square-foot facility in north Denver, the 40 or so employees of Dixie Elixirs and Edibles are busy producing marijuana-infused candies, sodas, eyedroppers of sublingual Dew Drops, vape pens, massage oils, bath salts, and other marijuana goodies. In one of the facility’s several industrial kitchens, a team of hairnet-clad workers take individual chocolate Dixie Rolls from an extrusion machine and package them in swank silver wrappers. On the main factory floor, an engineer puts the finishing touches on an automated bottling line, part of the facility’s ongoing $5 million renovation project, which will soon be filling 1,000 bottles an hour with Dixie’s THC-infused “elixirs,” including flavors like mandarin, red currant, and old-fashioned sarsaparilla. Nearby, other workers fill shipping crates with the 2,000 or so products the four-year-old company ships out daily to its clientele, which comprises roughly 90 percent of all Colorado marijuana retailers.
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Recommended Citation
Sam Kamin & Joel Warner, Don't Eat the Whole Thing, Slate: Altered State (June 11, 2014), https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/06/marijuana-edibles-how-did-weed-brownies-become-the-marijuana-industrys-biggest-headache.html.