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CHRISTINE, HARMON & SOMMER
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Medible Makers Just in time for summer, happy cakes bakery and cotton head edibles have teamed up to create tasty treats like ice cream bars and cotton candy. The best part? They’re all made with hash oil! YUM!
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ertainly no food heralds the start of summer more than cotton candy and ice cream, and Cotton Head Medibles has just the treat for patients. “It’s important to us that people know our products aren’t for kids,” Harmon explained. “They’re for adults wanting nostalgia with their medicine, to remind them of childhood and provide medicine in the same way.” With passion for medicine and great ideals, Harmon has teamed up with Christine from Happy Cakes Bakery to create all new medible lines. Both have a genuine approach to the business, and are making the products for more than profit. “Of everyone in the industry [mmj], we have the highest cost and the lowest margin,” explained Christine. “I have a vision, and I work my butt off trying to make it happen. Not only do we have to pay for the medicine to infuse,but the ingredients and time as well.” With both Cotton Head Medibles and Happy Cakes containing only organic ingredients, the bar is set high from the beginning. But what makes them even better is the high-grade medicine that does the job. “We medicate everything with dehydrated hash oil, and we can literally medicate anything with it,” Harmon said with a mischievous smile. “When you cook with butter you don’t really know if it will hit hard or be easy. That’s why we use the hash oil.” Their hash oil is processed with 200-proof food-grade ethyl alcohol that is considered pharmacological grade and safe for ingestion. After a proprietary process, the oil has the consistency of sugar and can be mixed into anything. Through testing and basic measurements, this oil infusion
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“It is very important that people look at the product labels in our goods and know what’s inside them,” Christine said. “That includes the medicine.”
method has allowed Harmon and Christine to produce consistent and stable products. With each batch and each item, the two know exactly how much medicine is inside. “It is very important that people look at the product labels in our goods and know what is inside them,” Christine said. “That includes the medicine.” Christine previously owned a bakery in Marin County in California but had lost passion for baking. It wasn’t until she got her first Cannabis authorization that she thought of cooking with pot. It brought back her excitement for the kitchen and laid the roots for her current business, she said. “I had no idea how many people I’d be helping. I had a woman come up in a collective and just give me a hug. She said the medibles have changed her life.”