Walk into a retail marijuana store, and a customer may find drinks–sometimes as tiny as a 5-Hour Energy or as large as a 20 ounce soft drink.

These are THC-infused liquids and, though they lack specificity in I-502, they may contain up to three times the recommended doses of THC.

Liquid THC might be a less popular form of marijuana, but it’s an alternative that can be up to ten times more potent than an edible.

Taylor Choyce, owner of Ellensburg’s newest marijuana store, opened up The Green Shelf at the end of August and plans on offering a wide range of liquid THC options.

“We will be selling seven ounce drinks that will range in strengths from 10 mg, 30 mg and up to 100 mg of THC,” Choyce said.

A typical marijuana edible contains 10 mg of THC. Washington state law requires that every 10 mg of THC in edible form must be sealed and packaged.

That means that if you buy a cookie and it’s individually sealed and packaged, it contains 10 mg of THC. Likewise, if there are three cookies sealed and packaged together, you would know that there is 10mg of THC between the three cookies.

Despite this, there is no law that requires every 10 mg of liquid THC to be sealed.

Taylor said that each drink will have a kind of measuring device attached to it in order to measure out 10 mg servings. He compared it to the measuring cups on the caps of Nyquil bottles.

With liquid forms containing up to 10 times more THC than that of an edible, one concern was that people will not be aware of just how much THC they are consuming.

Since each drink contains a printed warning of consumption and side effects, shops aren’t required to verbally alert customers of the effects or dangers. However, Taylor does plan on informing his customers out of common courtesy.

“When you go to buy alcohol, the cashier doesn’t read you the surgeon general’s warning and remind you not to drink and drive,” Choyce said. “We have no problem informing our customers of what they are buying, but a little common sense is needed.”