New spicy infused candy beans from the Willy Wonkas of weed are the aggressive replacement your bad decisions deserve
It’s a ritual for college kids and shitbags all across the commonwealth and beyond. You’re at the packie for a rack of Gansett, and your eyes turn to the overflowing bucket of red caps next to the register. You reach in. And so goes your evening.
It’s been said that Massachusetts sells more Fireball than any other state, and you’re part of the problem, regularly draining shots of the central ingredient in countless bad decisions made from Salisbury Beach to the Berkshires.
Thankfully, there have also been some sweet cinnamon options for weed heads in Mass. Back in 2022, our crew was loving the original Fireball-branded gummies. They were nuanced, somewhat spicy, and surprisingly sophisticated for a brand associated with floor-level debauchery. But now, those original infused Fireball treats are nowhere to be found, apparently buried in the graveyard of discontinued co-packed Bay State bangers.
In its place (at least as far as we’re concerned), the team behind Joybombs have released Firebombs, cannabis-infused chews that come in 2.5mg bites. They’re basically Red Hots with that Big Red punch, but they get you stoned. And they’re fucking hot. If the old whisky-inspired gummies were a slow burn, these interpolations of iconic candies are a scorcher.
Notably, Firebombs are manufactured in Mass by the squad at Root & Bloom, a crew we’ve previously dubbed the Willy Wonkas of cannabis candy. There’s real flavor chemistry in play at their Salisbury facility; they’ve mastered the art of the squish, ensuring the texture has the right malleability without any medicinal aftertaste that ruins lesser treats. The cinnamon here is an aggressive, sinus-clearing sting that lets you know exactly what you’re getting into.
Because of all the heat, it’s hard to jam the whole bag in at once. And it turned out that we didn’t need to; while all of us are savages who are quite capable of burying several hundred milligrams in any given seating, we took it slow with these, and still managed to catch a buzz. It may have been the cold sweats making us feel stoned, but with Firebombs that’s all part of the entourage effect.
