Sour Watermelon Gummies

The Sour Watermelon Gummies from Canna-sours, a brand from IESO, includes five 5mg THC watermelon-flavored gummies.

IESO, a cannabis cultivator from Carbondale, IL, is named after the Greek goddess of rest and recuperation. The company focuses on creating the highest quality of science-based medical cannabis, as well as providing their patients and customers with education to help them best use the products.

Appearance 3/5
These treats came in a pack of five gummies that contain 5mg THC each. I was surprised to see that these gummies were shaped like little watermelons. They were light pink semi-circles with a thin, green rind on the edge. They were covered in sour crystals, about 1” long and ½” wide at the widest point on the rind.

I liked this shape a lot; they were very cute. Unfortunately, somehow before they got into my possession, these melted, and most of the green rind had melted off, and all of the gummies were slightly deformed.

Aroma 3/5
The aroma of the sour watermelon Canna-sours reminded me of popsicles and summer camp. Specifically, it reminds me of pink freezer pops. The aroma is sweet, mild, and unaggressive. Even though these are sour gummies, there is no sourness in the aroma. There is just a hint of the cannabis distillate in the aroma, and this can really only be noticed when looking for it. This product does not smell like cannabis at all, unless I put it right up to my nose.

Taste 4/5
The Sour Watermelon Canna-sours have a pleasant, sweet, slightly artificial flavor. While these are marketed as a sour product, they weren’t all that sour. Beyond the outer sugary coating, there was no sourness in the taste of the gummies. The strongest flavor was the artificial watermelon, which was pretty comparable to other watermelon candies. These gummies were so sweet that the flavor reminded me of cotton candy. They have the pleasant, soft, almost creamy texture of opaque gummies.

Effect 3/5
The packaging recommends that users dissolve the sour sugar coating in their mouth before chewing the gummy for best effects. When I tried this, I found that I started to feel a sense of physical relaxation as soon as the coating dissolved. When I dissolved the whole gummy in my mouth, I felt the strongest effects very quickly, without waiting for it to be absorbed in my stomach.

After eating one, I felt a buzz, but I didn’t feel the high I desired. I ended up eating three, and feeling an intense body buzz, but almost no mental buzz.

Product price: $9.98 for 25mg

I highly recommend that users consume this product as directed on the packaging by absorbing the sour coating in the mouth. This helps the gummy absorb into the system faster. If the user chews the gummy before dissolving the coating, the effects will be the same, but they will take longer to set in.

This is a good, inexpensive, no-frills edible. These are not fancy artisanal gummies, they are the type of gummy one would buy for 99 cents at CVS, only with some cannabis distillate. The taste and effects of these gummies were just ok, but I appreciated being able to buy edibles in smaller amounts.

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I went to Sunnyside’s new River North location last week. Even though it’s farther away than Lakeview, they had a large selection of products, and I wanted to check it out. It’s the first time I went to a rec-only dispensary in Illinois, too.

They opened this location in the last week of May. Like Lakeview, it has a split location. There is a waiting room, with a section for social distancing on Hubbard, and a very small dispensary on Clark.

Neither location looks like they designed it to be a dispensary. The waiting room even kept the booths from the restaurant that used to be there. Unlike the former restaurant where the Lakeview waiting room is located, this is not meticulously painted and re-decorated to match their theme colors. There were huge gorgeous black leather couches, and walls plastered with music posters, and gigantic windows that weren’t covered with Sunnyside promotional material.

The dispensary itself was hardly decorated at all. There was a narrow hallway where two security guards stood, one at the front door, and the other scanning my ID. Then, I was let into the dispensary, which was hardly more than a hallway.

There was a counter with four computers and sneeze guards. They got the order from an area in the back. I gave the budtender the receipt from the location where I checked in, and she pulled out my order. She went over two items, and I told her there were also a few more items in my order. She got them from the back, and she also gave me a lanyard for “pens” marketing Cresco’s liquid live resin pens.