On November 5 Michigan's Cannabis Regulatory Agency announced that The Gummie Joint, working with the agency, is voluntarily recalling its Naked Hippie Lucky Berry gummies produced in the last year. Over that year the company received multiple customer complaints that the gummies produced an unpleasant euphoric experience or "high," with digestive distress also reported. The company pulled the product, in its own words, "out of an abundance of caution." A year of complaints, then caution.
The notice is good at the part regulators are good at: which pouches, which stores, which phone number. It says nothing about the part an edibles buyer can use, which is why. No cause is named, no complaint count is given, and the agency has published no potency test of the recalled gummies. For a product sold as a gentle low-dose gummy, that silence is the whole story.
Which Naked Hippie gummies are being recalled?
Naked Hippie Lucky Berry gummies made by The Gummie Joint in the past year. The press release tells consumers to discard pouches whose compliance sticker reads "Source Tag: 1A4050300030A22000039972," and the CRA's recall page lists 50 retail package tags across 28 licensed retailers. Check both lines on the sticker, since the two documents give different numbers.
The reason for checking twice is that the documents answer different questions. The release names one source package and says the rest of "this batch" is off sale. The recall page lists the METRC tags the stores themselves sold under, and none of those 50 matches the source tag. A match on either one puts a pouch inside the recall.
The store list runs from Sault Ste. Marie and Menominee in the Upper Peninsula down to Monroe and Luna Pier on the Ohio line. Among the names: Lume in Berkley, Butter in Berkley, NAR Monroe, Mango Cannabis in Lansing and New Buffalo Township, North Coast Provisions in Ann Arbor, Adrian and Sault Ste. Marie, MOOD Cannabis in Jackson and The Refinery in Kalamazoo. Mango's New Buffalo store has the most tags on the list, six; Elevated Exotics in Menominee and California Michigan Cannabis Company in Montgomery have five each. Most stores on the list have one. The full table, with license numbers and addresses, is on the CRA page, and the Michigan dispensary directory covers the wider market.
Why were the Lucky Berry gummies recalled?
Because customers kept complaining, over about a year, that the gummies produced an unpleasant high and digestive distress. That is the entire stated reason. The CRA has published no lab result, no potency retest and no finding on what caused the complaints, and the company calls the recall precautionary.
The odd detail is the dose. FOX 2 Detroit reported, citing the manufacturer's website, that a pouch holds 40 gummies at 5 mg of THC each, and that the company pitches Naked Hippie as a low-dose rosin gummy for a gentler, full-spectrum experience. Five milligrams sits at the top of the low band in the dose tiers on our dosing guide (2.5 to 5 mg). Complaints about too much high from a piece that size are unusual enough to deserve an explanation, and none has been offered.
We are not going to supply one. Without a published test, any theory about the label, the batch or the formula is a guess, and the CRA has not called the product dangerous. What can be said plainly: the regulator's notice describes complaints, a recall and a disposal instruction, and stops there. If a retest exists, it is not public.
The timing deserves one more sentence. Complaints arrived over a year; the response arrived on November 5, as a voluntary recall of everything made in that year, which is a long time for an abundance of caution to build up.
What should Michigan buyers holding a pouch know?
The CRA asks consumers with a recalled pouch to discard it or return it to the store that sold it. Anyone who had an adverse reaction is asked to tell their healthcare provider and to report it to the CRA through the agency's Adverse Reaction Form or by phone at 517-284-8599.
A report is worth filing even after the pouch is gone. The release gives no complaint count, and adverse reaction reports are the record a regulator works from when it decides whether a recall needs a cause attached. For anyone sorting out what an unexpectedly strong edible feels like and when it passes, the too-much-edible guide covers the published timelines and the symptoms that call for Poison Control or an emergency room.