About Us
Mellow Vibes – Edibles, Elevated
Edibles should be fun, predictable, and worry-free. But let’s be real—too many people have learned the hard way that guessing your dose can lead to a trip you never wanted. We’ve all heard (or lived) the horror stories of edibles hitting way harder than expected, and yet, most brands still think a lightly scored gummy is “good enough.”
At Mellow Vibes, we’re innovators, not imitators. That’s why we created our Rip & Dose Jellies—the easiest, most precise way to dose with confidence. No knives, no scissors, no sticky fingers. Just a perfect portion every time, so you get the experience you want, without any surprises.
We believe that best-in-class edibles start with best-in-class standards—safety, reliability, and consistency in every bite. Our mission is to take the guesswork out of edibles and put the control back in your hands. Because you deserve to know exactly what you’re getting—and to actually enjoy the ride.
So, whether you’re here to kick back, blast off, or find your perfect middle ground, Mellow Vibes has your back. Just Rip. Dose. Enjoy. 🚀✨
We Didn't Start in a Lab. We Started Behind a Counter.
Most edible brands start with a formula. We started with a counter, a line of customers, and about a decade of listening to what happened after they got home.
That's the part you can't shortcut. Before Mellow Vibes was a brand, it was a dispensary — and the people who built it spent years watching real customers guess at real doses. The “fear of edibles” isn't a marketing angle to us. We heard it from the other side of the counter, one story at a time, until we got tired enough of it to go build the fix.
- 2013
Brad & Christina Zusman open Lewis & Clark in Portland
A dispensary first. The brand comes much later — and it comes out of what we learned here.
- 2014
Rebranded as Cannadaddys
A front-row seat to thousands of edible purchases, and to every conversation that came after one went sideways.
- 2017
CBZ, LLC — a brand incubator and white-label manufacturer
The moment the question changed from “what should we stock?” to “what should we build?”
- 2018
Premium Blaze and Headtrip Edibles launch
The first products of our own. The first real proof the manufacturing side could hold a standard.
- 2019
Headtrip becomes Mellow Vibes
The name finds the brand. Everything since has been about earning the promise in it.
- 2022
Separation Tech launches as Rip & Dose
The decade-old problem finally gets a real answer: a jelly engineered with ribs and notches that tears into ten equal servings. No knives. No scissors. No guessing.
- 2020–24
Nevada, then Arizona and New York, then Canada
Four markets, four compliant lineups. Same standard in every one of them.
- 2024
Best Gummy — Arizona Grower's Cup, for Blueberry OG
Nice to be told out loud what our customers had already been telling us.
The Mix Is the Moat
Plenty of cannabis companies have one of these people. Having all four in the same room is the reason the products come out the way they do.
Brad Zusman
Co-Founder / Managing Partner
35+ years in restaurants, catering and manufacturing. The operational realism — what it actually takes to make the same thing, the same way, a hundred thousand times.
Joseph Lanzarin
CEO / Managing Partner
In global cannabis since 2014. The scaling playbook, and the business development to go with it.
Ryan Smith
Executive Chef & Brand Ambassador
Built Green Valley Chocolates into one of Oregon's largest edible makers. The reason a Mellow Vibes jelly tastes like the fruit on the front of the bag.
Daniel Hansen
Creative Director
A skincare background and an eye for the whole lifecycle — concept, packaging, shelf, screen. The thread that makes it all look like one brand.
Operators who cook. Chefs who scale. That's the whole trick.
What We're Actually Selling
Not gummies. Confidence.
Every jelly is vegan, gluten-free, and built on real fruit — no artificial flavors, no artificial colors, no corn syrup. Strain-specific live resin terpenes. Solventless rosin. Ratios of THC, CBD, CBG and CBN put together on purpose, for the vibe you're actually after. And every one of them tears into ten equal pieces, so the dose you want is the dose you get.
You'll find us in four markets, each with its own lineup:
- Oregon
- Arizona
- New York
- Canada
Whether you're microdosing your way through a Tuesday or going all in on a Saturday — same jelly, your call. Just Rip. Dose. Enjoy.
