Exclusive | No more wake and bake: NY bans sale of caffeine-infused cannabis

No more wake and bake!State regulators have banned the distribution of cannabis pills that are also infused with caffeine — a combo that’s been a popular pick-me-up for fitness buffs and office professionals, The Post has learned.The New York Office of Cannabis Management issued a stop order to Hudson Cannabis, an upstate marijuana/hemp farmer and processor that provides the key ingredients for the related cannabis brand 1906.1906 sells two different “drops,” or pills, with low doses of THC and higher amounts of caffeine marketed as “Go” and “Genius” in small cylinder containers.The firm’s “Go” drops contain 80 milligrams of caffeine and 2 mgs of THC-extract and 5 mgs of cannabidiol [CBD]/ weed extract and other plant-based or herbal ingredients.Go is marketed as an energy stimulant.Its Genius pills contain 20 mgs of caffeine mixed with 2.5 mgs of TCH and 5 mgs combined of CBD and Cannabigerol (CBG), also found in the marijuana plant, and other herbal or plant extracts.

It’s touted as a “brain power” supplement to boost focus and memory and calmness.The 1906 cannabis pills have been marketed in New York since February of last year.But OCM regulators issued a “quarantine,” or stop order, for the 1906 tablet July 24 after inspecting the 1906 combined cannabis-caffeine mix products at the Hudson Cannabis facility.“Evidence supports that ingredients used in product are not allowed to be used in cannabis products,” said the quarantine order signed by inspectors Natalie DeLong and Matthew Hinken.The order said the mixed ingredients “may jeopardize public health or safety.”The company marketing 1906, which has been sold in seven states including New York, is appealing the ruling banning the sale of $1 million of its inventory in New York.A lawyer for 1906’s parent firm Nuka Enterprises, Matthew Schweber, said OCM cited what he described as a wacky decaffeination rule that forbids infusing pure caffeine into cannabis produc...