With weed, someone who never smokes might get insanely high off of a single hit (say, 1/6th of a bowl) from a bong. Someone who smokes a few times a week might need to smoke an entire bowl for similar effects. Someone who smokes almost every day might need to smoke 2-4 bowls to get to that level, and if someone smokes multiple times every day, they may need to smoke an entire joint or turn to concentrates to get there. So in this case the heavy smoker wants 20x what the non-smoker wants due to the difference in tolerance. What could get a novice uncomfortably high could be unnoticeable to a heavy smoker.
With regard to " bag of something (bitter orange chips?) that kids won't eat outright, that comes in low/variable dosages just enough to chill with, that will allow you to drive your kids to the hospital should the need arise", in my opinion this product already exists. If you use a vaporizer the intake is so slow that you can simply stop inhaling when you reach however high you want to be. Even with other methods, you can simply smoke a single "hit", wait ~5-10 minutes, see if you want to smoke more, then repeat. And there are definitely low-dose edibles out there in the form of gummies/lollipops that are analogous to your example, except that they're not always bitter. The problem with edibles is that you can't "titrate" them like with other RoA's because the onset is too delayed.
Maybe a series of bags would be better. Like with coffee, you have espressos and shots and the like. You can adjust your tolerance fairly knowably and overdoing isn't a catastrophe. But I think the american palette is such that you need a serious foodstuff/snack in size. One gummy bear isn't 'enough' food, you need a bag of them. You can use a rookie-cookie, but sell them in 3 packs or really big discus-like sizes. People want some heft/size and they don't want to leave a half bag to go stale. Then up the dosages in a series. Red packaging is rookie, Orange is a long movie, Yellow is a half day, Lime is enough for a day'trip', Green is a 3-day weekend, etc. Price them all the same so that way it's about the dosage, not the costs.
Find a way to get a stressed out soccer-mom to eat these weed bon-bons like drinking a Cosmo, something instagram-able and dose-able.
An alcoholic's liver will up regulate enzymes to speed the metabolism of alcohol, but their brain chemistry will also change just as a weed-smoker's. Just as smokers up regulate cannabinoid receptors, alcoholics up regulate GABA (both among others). When alcoholics go through withdrawal, they can die of seizures caused by their brain having too many GABA receptors to properly function without the presence of alcohol.
A thc flavored inhaler with replaceable cartridges like your medical inhaler: http://criticalcaredvm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Albute...
Forever now its the strongest weed is the best and to your point its just juvenile.
Let me chill out to a cool movie or some friends outside on the porch i don't want to be drooling in my lap.
My fear is that one day only sours will be available and that I'll be forced to drink cider :P
It's different than the mass market piss Americans are used to, but there are much better options for the average pallet.
*It's not going away, but it's current popularity is outside of historic norms.
The proliferation of hop varieties and investment in hop research, especially in the last 20 years, means that the juicy IPA of today has no historical precedent.
While IPA may be a "fad" in historical terms, it is the one with the most staying power in the current craft beer boom. Hops aren't going anywhere, just getting used in new and different ways and there are even relatively recent products that are going to change hoppy beer flavors for the better as they see wider usage. See, for example, https://ychhops.com/hop-products/cryo-hops
I have been brewing my own beer for several years now and getting a lager or wheat right is very difficult. My IPAs on the other hand were all very drinkable and did not differ much from what I'd get from a craft brewery.
Such a Californian thing to say, the rest of the non-English speaking world in general has settled on very different beers (Pilsners in part of Germany and Czech Republic, Belgian ales in Belgian and part of France, ...)
Finally, beer settled on the 'all-day-IPA': a beer that tastes good, and you can bring to your niece's birthday party but not get too tanked to be able to drive her to the hospital after the bounce-house gets out of hand.
Weed needs that for a recreational substance that 'relaxes' but still allows for emergencies to occur. Think a bag of something (bitter orange chips?) that kids won't eat outright, that comes in low/variable dosages just enough to chill with, that will allow you to drive your kids to the hospital should the need arise. It, frankly, needs to be an 'adult' thing, not juvenile and bacchanalian as it is perceived to be today.