TL;DR · The Strongest THC Edibles I’ve Tried
One gummy. Six hours or more. Mellow Fellow’s Max Dose Gummies are the strongest edibles I’ve tried. After 20-plus years of using cannabis, I figured I could handle one. It wiped out the rest of my day.
If you’re new to edibles, I’d skip these.
How It Started…
Earlier this year, Mellow Fellow got in touch and asked if we’d take a look at its THC range. I said yes. Then I saw how much there was to get through.
And I mean a lot. There’s CBD, THC, THCA and THCP across gummies, blunts, oils, disposable vapes and 510 cartridges.
If you can think of a way to take cannabis, there’s a decent chance Mellow Fellow sells something for it.
I’ve covered the wider range in my full Mellow Fellow review.
But there was one product I wanted to talk about separately: its Max Dose Gummies. Or, as I like to call them: the destroyer of minds.
One gummy took out the rest of my days. I’ve had edibles where I could feel the effects and still get on with my evening.
With this one, being high was pretty much the only thing I was doing for the rest of the day.
Blue Razz tastes a little too much like actual candy
The Blue Razz one is sweet up front, with a tart raspberry finish and just enough fruitiness to cover most of the hemp taste. I liked it. If you handed me one out of the jar, I’d probably think it was a regular blue raspberry chew.
That’s what makes this format so easy to underestimate. It takes a few seconds to eat a gummy. It can take hours to find out what you’ve signed yourself up for.
What does 10,000 mg actually mean?
Mellow Fellow advertises 10,000 mg for the jar and 500 mg per gummy, with 20 gummies in the pack. That’s the advertised figure for the blend. If you want to know how much delta-9 THC is in a piece, look at the lab report for the batch on your jar.
I checked two published reports:
- One measured 184 mg of delta-8 THC and 9.67 mg of delta-9 THC per gummy, with HHC also detected.
- The other measured 346 mg of delta-8 THC and 4.07 mg of delta-9 THC per gummy, with no HHC detected.
- The lab measured 321 mg and 403 mg of total cannabinoids per gummy, respectively.
I can’t say which report matches the gummy I took without the batch number from my jar; there will be slight nuances, imperceptible differences between each one, but you can see why I’d read past the big number on the front whenever dealing with edibles.
The first hour gave me a false sense of security
It started coming on within an hour or two. At first I could feel it building, and then it just kept going.
By the time it peaked, I understood how badly I’d misjudged it. I reckon even Terence McKenna would’ve had a moment of, Right, how long is this going to last?
For me, it was six hours or more.
That’s how long one gummy took out of my day.
The bit I’d tell EVERYONE to pay attention to is the gap between feeling it start and feeling the full effects.
With an edible, that gap can be hours. It can take up to four hours to feel the full effects after eating or drinking cannabis. Taking more because the first dose feels mild is how you end up with both doses building at once and, trust me, you DO NOT want that.
What I’m trying to say here is this: don’t take your usual tolerance with smoking or vaping weed as having any bearing whatsoever on how your body will react to edibles.
If you’re using your usual vape session to judge whether you can handle one of these, you’re making the same guess I did.
Should you buy them?
If a friend asked me what edible to try first, I’d tell them to skip Max Dose completely. Same answer if they smoke every day but rarely take edibles.
I’d point them toward a clearly labelled, low-dose product where they can see exactly what’s in one serving. If you’re a first-timer, my advice is simple: keep it at 2.5 mg THC or less.
I’ve covered gummies, drinks and other options in my full Mellow Fellow guide. As for Max Dose, the Blue Razz tasted good. I still wouldn’t eat another whole one.
