I recently tested out these “Super Sour Space Heads” which are labeled at 30 mg CBD and 30 mg D9-THC per piece (from hemp). I don’t know if my thoughts will all fit into one post, but here it goes.

These came from a “non-dispensary outlet” in Indiana, but the package lists the manufacturer as Prophet Premium Blends, LLC in CA. This is part of a set of products I’m testing that were collected by Jill Carreiro as part of my ongoing collaboration with her. Thanks Jill!!!

Before I get to the cannabinoids and all of that, let’s talk about sugar. You can see how these “gummies” are a sticky mess and left goo on Jill’s finger. They aren’t cohesive single pieces – they mush together and pull apart, though I could separate them into pieces of about 10.6 grams each.

The ingredients list on the package is interesting in this regard: the first items listed are cannabinoids, and granulated sugar is near the bottom. But I found that this stuff is nearly all granulated sugar – probably 10 g per piece. Ingredients should be listed in order from most to least.

My hypothesis is that these guys failed at their gummy formulation and were left with cannabinoid goo. From the ingredients list: granulated sugar “to dry-blend pectin,” suggests they just kept mixing in more sugar until the goo turned semi-solid.

These things are not sour at all. They taste like a mouthful of granulated sugar, which was extremely gross to me. I could feel that they were medicated with something, but I certainly did not feel “high.”

I measured these using the hashtag#LightLab3HS on generous loan from Orange Photonics, Inc.. I measured several times using pieces from several different gummies (not that they were particularly “separate”, more like sampling different parts of the lump).

I did not struggle too badly to dissolve these when I used the hashtag#LightLab procedure for converted cannabinoid gummies, which uses pure water as the first solvent. Some sugar did reprecipitate from the final solution, and filtering this was sometimes hard.

We found about 6.3 mg D9-THC per piece, and about 10.3 mg CBD. No wonder I didn’t feel much from them. Notice that the THC per piece was so low, the whole pack (15 pieces) contains about 95 mg. I’d get more from a regulation pack here MA, and I’d eat less sugar.

In addition to providing only 1/5 the advertised dose of THC and 1/3 that of CBD, these also have a ratio of THC:CBD of nearly 1:2 instead of the advertised 1:1. People choose products for ratios. Add in the fact that nobody wants to eat 10 grams of granulated sugar in a mouthful, and I have to recommend these products to absolutely nobody.

If someone gives you some Super Sour Space Heads, you’re better off taking a tolerance break than eating any.