Exploding 'pot pop' removed from three marijuana shops
When Top Shelf Cannabis in Bellingham took delivery of 330 bottles of a brand new marijuana infused soda on September 28, they were excited to promote it to their customers.
They sold ten bottles of legal sparkling pomegranate soda made by Mirth Provisions of Longview on the first day.
But when employees opened up shop the following day, they found a sticky mess of broken bottles and shards of glass throughout the store. During the night, the bottles began to self destruct. The employees didn't think anything was dangerous until they heard and saw bottles randomly explode.
"It sounded like a shotgun going off," said Top Shelf Cannabis manager Zach Henifin. "You can actually feel it, it was that explosive".
Wearing a face shield and protective garb, Henifin placed cartons of unexploded soda in a steel box the size of a small dumpster outside of the store. The staff used bleach to clean up the mess and pulled pieces of glass from cardboard boxes. The "pot pop" continued to explode inside the steel container for 10 days.
"It's almost like bomb box because they randomly go off during the day," said Henifin.
No one was injured at the store from the exploding bottles, but they don't know if the customers that bought the soda had their bottles explode on them.
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