{"id":16094,"date":"2026-07-02T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:58:56","slug":"cracking-open-a-can-of-cannabis-americas-new-pastime-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16094","title":{"rendered":"Cracking open a can of cannabis &#8211; America&#8217;s new pastime (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>At Fourth of July barbecues this weekend, Americans are more likely than ever to crack open a can of cannabis, rather than a beer.<\/p>\n<p>Pot has long been associated in the United States with hippies and stoners nursing pungent joints.<\/p>\n<p>Now \u2014 or at least until a looming federal law drops the hammer on the trend later this year \u2014 many Americans are getting a more socially acceptable buzz around dinner tables or out on the patio in the form of THC-infused beverages sold at mainstream supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting a brunch for friends at her coastal North Carolina home, Cecilia Pfaff, a small business owner, had a spread of beverages laid out on the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>There was beer. There was wine. There were mimosas.<\/p>\n<p>And there was also a large, frosted glass bottle of Willie\u2019s Remedy+ with a label that read \u201cHemp Derived\u2026High Dose. Social Tonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fancy bottle contained no alcohol but did have 170 mg of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)\u00a0\u2014 the chemical key to marijuana\u2019s intoxicating effects. That\u2019s 10 mg per serving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty much everybody I know \u2014 all of whom are professionals \u2014 are taking a THC-derived product in some form,\u201d Pfaff told AFP between pulling quiches out of the oven.<\/p>\n<p>Across the kitchen, one such professional, Pat Clougherty, poured himself a finger of the cloudy beverage, which had been bought in the local supermarket, into a rocks glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s replaced a lot of what we drink at night,\u201d the pharmaceutical salesman said of his and his wife\u2019s drinking habits. \u201cIt used to be red wine or beer, but we just pour a couple of those.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t wake up feeling it as much,\u201d Clougherty said, referring to hangovers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 New highs \u2013<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, polling firm Gallup said that just 54 percent of Americans drink alcohol \u2014 the lowest\u00a0number since it began asking the question in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, market research firm Euromonitor says sales of cannabis beverages are exploding as more products migrate from niche stores to mainstream shops.<\/p>\n<p>Trent Mooring started the Kaya brand of THC-infused beverages in the nearby city of Kinston in 2024, expanding on his successful craft beer and alcoholic seltzer business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSales have tripled over the past year,\u201d Mooring told\u00a0AFP, noting that a major supermarket chain agreeing to carry the products had fueled the growth.<\/p>\n<p>Euromonitor\u2019s Peter Hamilton told AFP his firm\u2019s \u201cestimate for the industry grows from $238 million in 2023 up to approximately $720 million in 2025 and estimated to surpass $1billion in retail sales in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s if Congress doesn\u2019t bring the legal high back to earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Congress ends the party \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Recreational marijuana is classified as an illegal drug under federal law, even if it has been legalized in multiple individual states.<\/p>\n<p>However, products derived from hemp \u2014 the cannabis plant, but with lower THC content \u2014 have been mostly legal federally since a 2018 law change.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that the change passed in Congress was meant to encourage the market for non-intoxicating hemp-derived textiles and foods.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it opened the floodgates to innovative products aimed at delivering highs by concentrating or deriving THC from hemp into potent drinks, candies, vapes and more.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2025, the Republican-controlled Congress once again changed the law so that from November 12, 2026 no product will be allowed more than 0.4 mg of THC per container \u2014 way off the 5 mg and 10 mg in many mainstream products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll crush the (THC) beverage industry,\u201d Mooring said.<\/p>\n<p>Industry groups \u2014 including the National Restaurant Association and Wine &amp;amp; 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