# Cannabis drinks are surging in popularity | The Excerpt

## Dana Taylor
**USA TODAY**

**On a special episode (first released on March 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast:**

A new beverage has been showing up in bars and on store shelves: the cannabis cocktail, a hemp-derived drink that contains CBD and oftentimes THC as well. They’re marketed as providing a buzz without the downside of a hangover. But are there drawbacks? And could these drinks ever replace alcohol? Staci Gruber, director of marijuana investigations for the Neuroscientific Discovery program at McLean Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School joins The Excerpt to answer these and other questions about this new trend.

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**Published: 4:17 p.m. ET March 5, 2025 Updated: 9:45 a.m. ET March 6, 2025**
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