Increase your charged pre-roll game with these new and innovative products

Infused, amplified, charged – a new type of pre-rolled joint is finally here.

After three years of legalization and the immense popularity of pre-rolls, the next generation of innovations has finally arrived in Canada.

Infused pre-rolls aren’t an old joint, they’re packed full of some sort of cannabis extract. Whether kief, moonrocks, shatter or hashish, the concentrate is rolled with ground dried flowers to make infused pre-rolls.

These are not your basic speeches. The path to retail in Canada was initially not clear, it was believed that pre-rolls could only contain ground cannabis. But with some clarification from Health Canada, a number of licensed manufacturers are coming out with their own spin on infused pre-rolls.

Infused joints are finally available in Canada

Rolling a stellar spliff with oil and hash simply brings back thoughts of sticky fingers, sore hands, and a significant investment of time. Instead, infused pre-rolls offer a full artisanal experience – combining flowers, oils, and a pinch of kief or hash – resulting in an end product that is suitable for Snoop himself.

Infused products have performed exceptionally well in the American market. So much so that 44% of the best-selling pre-rolls in California are infused. Yet despite our state legalization, consumers had to buy and make all the ingredients themselves.

Until now.

TopLeaf’s Forbidden Lemon Caviar Cones were the first to defy the definition of a pre-roll in Canada.

Caviar cones are the first infused pre-rolls to hit the market in Canada. (Top sheet)

“We saw a way to combine the convenience of pre-rolls with the potency and, most importantly, unique flavor combinations that can be achieved with concentrates,” said Ryan Hellard, chief strategy officer of Sundial Growers Inc, parent company of TopLeaf. the creator of the caviar cones.

What exactly is a caviar cone?

The name comes from “cannabis caviar”, also known as moon rock. The buds are soaked in oil and then covered with drying sieve to produce pebbles of cannabinoid splendor. These could eventually hit the Canadian market, and with caviar cones as a precedent, this journey may have become easier.

This is TopLeaf’s version of an infused pre-roll made with flowers, desiccant hash, and full-spectrum oil. The combination guarantees a joint with a THC potential of more than 30% for an intense experience.

TopLeaf has selected three ingredients for its Forbidden Lemon Caviar Cone, without paper and lace: spicy and terpene Forbidos flower, Blue Dream and Lemon Haze hash and Florida Lemon full-spectrum oil.

Prohibited Lemon Caviar Cone (TopLeaf)

The whole thing is rolled up into half-gram cones, not much different from your average, large pre-roll.

“[With] our Top Leaf Caviar Cones, we wanted it to be a premium experience across the board. A product that combines high quality whole flowers with various concentrates and extracts to create something that was more than just the sum of its parts, ”explains Hellard.

And consumers are there for that. In early November, less than a month after its launch, Colin Bambury, Head of Marketing at THC Canada, said on Twitter, “Prohibited lemon caviar cones quickly became our bestsellers [pre-rolled joint]”We sold out quickly – now people call all day and ask if we have got them back yet.”

Cones, magnums and terp sticks – anything but the word pre-roll

Gord Nichol of North 40 Cannabis has had a similar idea in the making for months: The Magnum; recently announced and launched by the end of the year.

“The Magnums are introduced to limit the amount that has to be burned to achieve the desired effects. These are tough little joints that will be good for people who want to duck on the balcony for a puff or two, ”Nichol tells Leafly.

North 40 takes a unique approach that differs from TopLeaf by using a tasteless extract that Nichol says is supposed to stay true to the original flower.

“When they’re rolled with Platinum OG, they have this flavor and only this flavor, as our infusion of THCa is tasteless and doesn’t change anything in our pre-rolls other than enhancing the effect,” explains Gord.

Infused joints were a fan favorite in the legacy market, but were not available in the legal industry until recently. (Adobe warehouse)

The Kolab Project 232 series of live terpene sticks are infused pre-rolls with a total terpene content of a whopping 5%. They take individual stems, whole buds, and add their hydrocarbon-extracted terpene sauce to it. Its aroma and tasting notes are reminiscent of dense, lush vegetation: woody and earthy, with sharp, spicy undertones.

“We know from consumer research that infused pre-rolls are growing rapidly in the mature US markets, and they have tested very positive in focus groups with cannabis enthusiasts and connoisseurs. This consumer insight was a perfect fit for the Kolab Project brand, ”says Dr. Bob Chapman, Chief Science Officer at Auxly.

“We developed a proprietary processing technique to maximize the potency of the dried cannabis and create a nifty bloom with the ideal potency and texture to combine evenly with the terpene sauce.”

General Admission has also launched infused pre-rolls that come in three flavors: Tropic GSC, Berry G33, and Strawnana. These terpene-infused and kief-coated compounds are located in Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan, with Ontario slated to follow suit in the new year, according to the press release.

The “next great thing” hitting the Canadian cannabis market has actually been around for a while – Leafly talked about Colorado Caviar Cones over three years ago – but that doesn’t make it any less exciting.

For niche products like infused pre-rolls, it’s not the lack of demand that keeps them from exist north of the border. Canada’s unique regulations require creativity and usually a lot of waiting.

Originally it was unclear whether infused pre-rolls were even legal under the Cannabis Act. In August, Health Canada sent out a letter clarifying that infused pre-rolls are allowed under cannabis law, but they are considered extracts and must be licensed as such.

Roderick MacDonald

Roderick is a freelance writer and content creator specializing in the psychedelics and cannabis industries and a communications director at Known Group. After a decade in the lab researching the genetics of cancer and aging, he adopted the digital nomad lifestyle – learning French in southern Quebec before ending up with his partner in Belgium. Roderick is the co-founder of Psillow, an online resource that helps educate people about psychedelic mushrooms and the thriving underground market that remains the only viable entry point in Canada.

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