96 JANUARY 2020
GRÖN
Premium THC- and CBD-
infused chocolate bars,
sugar-coated pearls,
and chocolate-covered
coffee beans in gorgeous,
modern packaging
from Christine Smith, a
Portland, Oregon–based
former architect. (gron
chocolate.com)
CODA SIGNATURE
These truffles and
chocolate bars are some
of the most popular in
the Colorado market.
“Some people only get
half a square, so it better
taste amazing,” says
Lauren Gockley, director
of edibles. (coda
signature.com)
99TH FLOOR
Chef Miguel Trinidad
will soon launch a line
of edibles in California
and, once legalization
takes hold, New York.
Until then, dinner guests
can take home a goody
bag of THC-infused hard
candies. (facebook
.com/99thfl)
N E X T-
LEVEL
NOSH
LAURIE + MARYJANE
Cake bites, truffles,
cheese crackers, and
a potent fudge (called
Fudge Yourself and dosed
at 50 milligrams of THC
apiece) show the range
of this Portland, Oregon,
company from cannabis
advocate Laurie Wolf.
(laurieandmaryjane.com)
EDIBLES
GROW UP
HE MOST COMMON EDIBLE PURCHASED and
consumed today is the gummy. “Far and
away,” says Greg Shoenfeld, vice president
of operations at BDS Analytics, a canna-
bis analytics company based in Boulder,
Colorado. “And these are sophisticated
confectioneries.” That, in a microcosm, is the forward
motion of the ingestible market, the cannabis industry’s
fastest-growing sector, which pulled in $712 million from
January 2019 to June 2019, an increase of 27.5% from the
previous year.
The new face of edibles is beautiful packaging, refined
flavors, and quality ingredients. The sugared gummy pearls
of Portland, Oregon–based Grön are a shining example, as
is Denver-based Coda Signature’s coffee and doughnuts
chocolate bar, dusted just so with cinnamon sugar. “There
was an opening for wonderful flavors, quality ingredients,
and bringing about nostalgia,” says Lauren Gockley, director
of edibles for Coda Signature, who spent two years working
with chocolate and pastry under Thomas Keller at Per Se in
New York City. In August 2019, Coda also launched a line of
high-end fruit chews à la pâte de fruits in flavors such as
strawberry rhubarb and, Gockley’s favorite, coconut lime
with makrut lime–infused sugar.
The high from an edible is very different (and has a de-
layed onset) than the one from inhaling marijuana. “Don’t
fear the edible; just start slow,” says Laurie Wolf, founder
of Laurie + MaryJane, an influential cannabis edibles
company in Portland, Oregon.
Professional chefs are leaving pot brownies
in the dust with infused confections.
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27. 5 %
SOURCE: BDS ANALYTICS
INCREASE IN EDIBLES MARKET
FROM 2018 TO 2019
GRÖN CREATED A 4-FOOT-TALL CBD-INFUSED CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN FOR KIM KARDASHIAN WEST’S BABY SHOWER.
Infused bonbons from
Sweet Cannabis in
Oregon come in flavors
like chocolate, rum,
and passion fruit.
