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Pot smokers are setting aside their joints in favor of edibles, pills and extracts
Last Updated: Wednesday July 28, 2021
(USA Today, July 24) As marijuana laws across the nation change, users are expanding the ways they use the drug.
"The actual old-school smoking of cannabis is pretty much out the door,” Jered DeCamp, co-owner of the Herbal Remedies marijuana store in Salem, Oregon told USA Today. He added that only 50 percent of his store’s sales are of the regular “smokable” marijuana.
In Colorado, “smokable” marijuana sales statewide decreased more than 20 percent between 2014 to now. Read more.
Learn more about marijuana edibles on our teen site Just Think Twice.