Renowned confectioner Willy Wonka once put a three-course dinner into a single piece of chewing gum. DEE Thai is putting an entire Thai fruit market into its nine flavors of weed gummies.
We won't debate who had the cooler trick.
The fact remains, you can find these Thai edibles right now at many local L.A. dispensaries (and only Everlasting Gobstoppers in Lincoln Heights, but that's another story) jammed with the tropical flavors of mango, tamarind, papaya, lychee, mangosteen, jackfruit, coconut, grape, and guava, each with a 10 m.g. dose of THC each.
Dee is a Sacramento-based brand whose name translates to "good" in Thai, a word often evoked in the names of Thai businesses, such as Mee Dee Thai in South Central and Dee Thai Massage in Pico-Union.
According to the story on its website, Dee's "founding father," co-founder Josh Schmidt, also the vice president of business development for cannabis brand-creator Natura, moved to Bangkok and developed a wee a fetish for the place, as he "immersed himself in the local cuisine, culture, and markets."