Photos: Cannabis candymaker

Edibles manufacturer Kiva Confections tests its hash for potency and impurities. It also tests the chocolate after it’s been infused and samples of the finished porject.

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Oct. 7, 2016 3 AM PT

Jason Holyoke starts the process of coating espresso beans with cannabis-infused chocolate in a panning machine at the Kiva Confections factory in Oakland.

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A Kiva worker prepare freshly molded cannabis-infused chocolate bars for packaging.

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A Kiva worker weighs a tin of cannabis-infused chocolate-covered blueberries.

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Espresso beans are slowly churned in a panning machine at the Kiva factory. Kiva covers the beans in cannabis-infused chocolate.

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Aaron Butterfield checks the coating on chocolate-covered blueberries. One chocolate-covered blueberry has 5 mg of THC, considered a “starter dose” for an inexperienced user.

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Cannabis-infused chocolate drips in a tempering machine at the Kiva factory.

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Kiva Confections officials say the company’s packaging and labels are deliberately designed not to appeal to children.

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A worker prepares Kiva’s cannabis-infused chocolate bars, marked with a signature marijuana leaf, for packaging.

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