Alright, we just received our Medmen delivery.

And we have a variety of attractive packages on the table.

A sparkling pair Camino, which says it's social.

Midnight blueberry Camino, which is a more of a sleep oriented packet.

When I told my husband, Jeff, we were making a Gastropod mini series about edibles.

He was on the Medmen website faster than you could say cannabis.

Just a couple of hours later, someone arrived on my doorstep and handed me a big bag of gummies.

They used to joke how outies were designed so that when you opened and closed the door,

it had a very satisfying kind of clunk.

So let's see if Camino, if these guys have thought that through, as an audio experience.

That sounded good.

Yeah, look at that.

So yeah, kind of on screws and pops open and you've got these not necessarily appetizing,

looking purple gunk squares.

That's that midnight blueberry, which tasted to me more like random blue candy than blueberry

specifically, if you know what I mean.

I, of course, am nickel-it-twyly.

And I am Cynthia Grieber.

And you're listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of

science and history.

And for our tasting, my partner Tim and I stopped off at a recreational dispensary in

Massachusetts and I asked for the very smallest dose they had available.

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