Bottles Of Marijuana-Infused Soda Explode At Washington Pot Shop


A Washington (state) pot shop found itself in possession of about 300 bottles of pot-infused soda that promised an explosive high; as in literally — the bottles exploded.

According to Business2Community, Top Shelf Cannabis in Bellingham, Washington purchased a case of 330 bottles of Legal Pomegranate pot-infused soda (“Legal” is the brand name) and sold about 10 on the first day. Employees came to work the next day to find a sticky mess in the display counter: some of the bottles of pot soda had exploded.

Store manager Zach Henifin told KOMO (Seattle) that employees saw (and heard) bottles of the pot soda randomly exploding in the display case.

“It sounded like a shotgun going off. You can actually feel it, it was that explosive.”

Thanks to some ambiguity in Washington’s pot laws, the pot soda put the store’s employees in a sticky situation. State law says that pot-infused products have to be quarantined for 72 hours so that the Liquor Control Board (the Washington state agency that oversees the legal pot trade) can inspect the products. With no other options, Henifin and his employees put the pot soda in a small trash dumpster in the back yard, and listened to random explosions for the next ten days.

“Everything has to have 100 percent traceability, and if things are blowing up and they are no longer good, are they still going to be traced? What happens us at that point? It’s basically been exploding for a week and a half all over the store.”

As of this post, it is not known if any of the customers who purchased the pot soda have had problems with exploding bottles. Mirth Provisions, the maker of the pot soda, reported that at least two other pot shops in Washington have reported problems with the exploding pot sodas.

Adam Stites, the founder of the pot soda’s manufacturer, said that the pot soda exploded due to a manufacturing error.

“It was simply the fact that his batch had a higher yeast concentration, and one of the by-products of yeast is excess carbon dioxide. The yeast was just building up the pressure in the bottles over a seven to 10 day period. Sometimes when your [sic] creating new products in new marketplace there’s a little bit of a learning curve and that’s what we’ve experienced.”

Mirth sent a driver to pick up the remaining pot sodas but they exploded in his truck and he had to abandon them, according to KOMO.

Mirth plans to reimburse Top Shelf Cannabis and all of the other retailers for the exploding pot soda bottles.

[Image courtesy of: KCPQ (Tacoma)]

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