Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, March 27th. Today on Forbes, edible arrangements can now

get you high on edibles. Edible Brands, the parent company of the fruit basket outfit

edible arrangements, is taking a bite of the cannabis industry. The Georgia-based company, which had $500 million in annual sales last year,

launched Edibles.com last week, an e-commerce site that sells hemp-derived THC products

made by some of the biggest brands in the marijuana industry, including Juana, Kiva, and Can.

Edible brands is not selling marijuana, which is federally illegal,

but is focusing on THC products derived from hemp,

marijuana's less potent and federally legal cannabis cousin.

But these products are still strong enough to get customers stoned.

Edible Brands CEO Samia Farid

Silber tells Forbes, quote, this is a really natural fit for us. We're already called edible,

right? We know that sometimes there's even a little bit of an expectation from a customer for

cannabis products. Edibles.com, which the company acquired last year, will launch in Texas first,

but will soon expand to Georgia, Florida, North, and South Carolina, and expects to go nationwide

later this year. With its network of more than 700 edible arrangements stores, the company

says customers can order online and get their cannabis

products delivered to their door faster than an old school pot dealer. Silber says,

quote, we have an incredible delivery network with our franchisees for fulfillment. We can reach

70% of U.S. households within an hour.

Because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, but hemp has enough THC to get someone high, some of the weed industry's biggest players have started selling hemp products

outside of dispensaries.

The hemp and marijuana industry used to be at war, but over the last year, some of the

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