There were these drinks branded by the family of a famous reggae singer that were intended to mimic the effects of weed, but they didn’t.
The drinks were a combination of melatonin and l-theanine, among other compounds.
These herbs have real effects, but they can’t possibly compare to the sheer potency and psychoactive effects of real THC. These “mellow mood” drinks basically made me feel like I had just swallowed a Benadryl capsule, only I think Benadryl would be stronger if I had to stop and do a real comparison. After buying these drinks a few times for the novelty factor, I never bought them again. I’m not a huge fan of sedatives that don’t make you feel better and just make you feel tired and lethargic. By contrast, I buy mainly cannabis sativa products that have stimulating effects as opposed to the sedating effects of indica strains of cannabis. Oddly enough, when I was at the medical cannabis store the other day, I noticed that they had cannabis drinks for the first time ever. The budtender told me that the state was finally allowing the cannabis dispensaries to carry cannabis drinks after years of saying they weren’t “medical products.” Well, I shouldn’t have had any expectations, because it was like drinking a soda with a weak THC gummy candy dissolved inside. The effects were lacking and at $20 each, it’s an expense I can’t really justify in my entire cannabis budget as a whole. I’ll stick with vaporizing cannabis flower products along with full spectrum cannabis hash oil like live rosin and dry sift rosin.