If you’re looking for a different way to consume cannabis, try sticking a few of these tobacco-like pouches in your bottom lip
First, there is some education necessary for those who aren’t cowboys or major league outfielders.
Though your typical coastal elitist may think that any old nicotine product you stick in your mouth without smoking is chewing tobacco, that’s not the case. Actual chewing tobacco, also called chew, is long, stringy, and sweet, and usually comes in a pouch.
What’s far more common is what people call dip. That comes in a so-called tin, which these days is typically made of plastic, and basically resembles moist dirt. And finally there are tobacco pouches, one extra miniature version of which was popularized by the brand Skoal as Bandits, which allow users to enjoy the high without the mess. It’s like what vaping is compared to smoking a dab with a blowtorch and banger.
Bandits aren’t exactly for cowboys. None of us have ever signed up for a bull riding competition, but we’d bet that you would be laughed at or even bludgeoned in the locker room for pulling out some pouches.
Thankfully, there’s no such stigma tied to oral cannabis consumption. Juana Dips, manufactured by Green Meadows, are in a class of their own, as much of a canna analog to dip as they are something else entirely.
While most people spit into a can when they’re tonguing tobacco, the spearmint Juana Dips that we sampled are sweet enough—the ones we tried were spearmint flavor—to swallow your saliva. The pouches aren’t full of dried-up weed, but rather a powerful proprietary powder formulation tooled to maximize your buzz sublingually.
Though 5 mg doesn’t typically register with people like us who write about weed and consume quantities of THC-infusions that could hobble a rhinoceros, we all felt the Juana Dips hit our bloodstream within 10 or 15 minutes. Then we added another one, and another one, and another until we felt the mellow settle through our foreheads.
While these are slightly different from the infused toothpicks we reviewed last year, they are similar in that they’re a solid gateway for the canna curious or even those who may be reluctant to get stoned. They’re not going to knock an OG into outer space, but Juana Dips are great for on-the-go consumption or even at work for a nice clean high behind the eyes that flows down through your spine.
