Pharmaceutical-grade equipment
We make every emulsion ourselves on pharmaceutical-grade equipment, not blenders. That's how we get droplets this small and dial in the exact size a drink needs.
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A THC cocktail, built by scientists.
Herb & Lou's is made to support laughter. It's built to feel more like smoking than an edible, taste like the real cocktail and carry the same dose in every can. Here's the science behind it.
Find Herb & Lou'sWhy edibles feel different
In a typical edible, THC is locked in fat or sugar that has to be digested, then it goes to your liver first. That's why edibles are slow and hit people so differently. Our THC is already in tiny droplets, so there's no slow digestion step, and it goes straight into your blood instead of stopping at your liver first.
Side by side
Not all THC drinks are built the same
How our emulsion compares with raw THC oil and a typical off-the-shelf mix.
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Getting THC into a drink is the easy part. We built ours to keep it there.
Raw THC
Floats, clings to the sides
Teeny Tiny Science
Spread evenly, top to bottom
The problem
THC is an oil. Drinks are water.
Like the oil in salad dressing, THC floats to the top, sticks to the inside of the can and tastes bitter. That's why THC drinks can taste off and lose their dose sitting on a shelf.
We fix that with an emulsion: THC broken into droplets far too small to see and spread evenly through the drink.
What we do
What we do differently
Nobody else makes emulsions the way we do. Here's what's different.
Every droplet the same size
Big droplets float up and take THC with them. Ours come out close to the same size, so the THC stays spread through the drink, can after can.
Every droplet is coated
The THC sits inside a coating, so it stays off your tongue. You taste a real Peach Bellini, not THC.
Built only for Herb & Lou's
We designed this emulsion around their four flavors, their dose and the exact can they ship in. No one else has it.
Terpenes
Why we put terpenes in Herb & Lou's
The hemp plant makes more than THC. It also makes terpenes, the natural compounds behind a plant's smell and character, and they shape how THC feels. This is called the entourage effect. A THC-only drink leaves all of that out.
Herb & Lou's is made to support laughter, so we added a blend of terpenes chosen for a social, upbeat experience, the kind you want for a night of laughing with friends. They also boost the flavor and add to the effect. They ride in the same coated droplets as the THC.
Terpenes add another layer of complexity to the emulsion chemistry, so we built our own emulsion system just for them, made in-house from the raw oils.
The science behind the entourage effect
Some terpenes act on the same systems in the body that THC does, and some act on receptors of their own, which is how they can change the way THC is felt. In 2024, researchers at Johns Hopkins gave people THC with and without a terpene found naturally in cannabis, and the terpene changed how people experienced the THC. We pair research like that with more than ten years of hands-on work with terpenes.
- 39plant-derived terpenes from plants like citrus, lavender and hops
- 485people in controlled trials of the blend, who reported a warm, relaxed feeling
- GRASevery terpene is generally recognized as safe by FDA standards
Proof
We keep testing it for as long as it's on the shelf.
We test every batch before it's canned, then keep testing stored cans every month for as long as the drink is on shelves.
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Every batch, in our lab
We measure droplet size with DLS (dynamic light scattering) and check THC and terpenes in our own lab.
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Every month, on the shelf
We pull stored cans and run DLS and the same THC and terpene tests. More than 12 months in, our emulsion is holding up.
Why DLS matters
Droplet size is the number we watch most.
DLS stands for dynamic light scattering. We shine a laser through the drink and read how the droplets move, which tells us how big they are and how even they are. Droplet size is the most important thing to monitor in an emulsion. When droplets start to grow, it's the first sign an emulsion is breaking down, long before you'd ever see it or taste it. That's why we run DLS on every batch and on every can we pull from the shelf.
7 of 8popular THC drinks we tested came in more than 10% under the THC on their label
We tested what's already on the shelf
We bought popular THC drinks off store shelves and ran the same tests. A lot of them had emulsions breaking down, THC stuck to the can lining and THC that wasn't mixed evenly. Those are the problems we built our system to solve.
Every production lot also goes to an independent ISO 17025 accredited lab for a potency check.
Who we are
The science company behind the can
Teeny Tiny Science builds delivery systems for cannabinoids, terpenes and botanicals, in liquids and powders. We've spent more than ten years getting oils to behave in water. Our science is led by Dr. Noel Palmer, PhD.
Patent pendingTaste it for yourself
Don't judge it by the number on the can. Herb & Lou's pours 8mg into a short 8.4 oz can, about 1mg per ounce, like a cocktail's small, strong pour. We put our work into getting all 8mg delivered instead of putting a bigger number on the label. Start with one.
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