--- title: Cannabis Marijuana Tampons Now Exist description: Foria recently released a set of "relief suppositories" made out of cannabis to help relieve menstrual cramps. canonical: https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-02T15:39:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:03.913Z og:title: Cannabis Tampons Are Now a Thing og:description: Sorry, they won't get you high og:url: https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1d7323cd487b92/6988a0cca988ca04396b8ef1/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5121 og:image:height: 2881 og:image:alt: Multiple sized marijuana leaves og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cannabis Tampons Are Now a Thing twitter:description: Sorry, they won't get you high twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1d7323cd487b92/6988a0cca988ca04396b8ef1/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cannabis Tampons Are Now a Thing > Sponsored content. 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Domain:Eukarya, Phylum:Magnoliophyta, Class:Magnoliopsida, Order:Rosales, Family:Cannabaceae. Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 2, 2016 3:39 PM UTC Women who suffer from painful menstrual cramps sympathize with the debilitating discomfort that arrives monthly like clockwork. Motrin, Midol and Advil can take a back seat, however, because there’s apparently a new remedy for cramps: Cannabis [tampons](http://motto.time.com/4427313/tampon-companies-donate-charity/). The company Foria, makers of marijuana-infused personal lubricant, created “[relief suppositories](http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/a55795/marijuana-tampons/)” made out of cannabis. [According](http://foriapleasure.com/products/relief-4-pack#) to Foria’s [site](http://foriapleasure.com/), these suppositories “maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic ‘high.'” Foria’s tampons, which cost $44 for a 4-pack, are made with only three ingredients: cocoa butter, distilled THC Oil and CBD Isolate (99.99%) from organically-grown hemp. CBD Isolate is one of “two key active cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis,” the other being THC, Foria [explains](http://foriapleasure.com/products/relief-4-pack#) on its website. One reviewer of the suppositories claims that the pill “smells like cookie dough and cocoa butter.” Foria says their primary focus is on relieving pain, with an intention to “share the powerful medicinal properties of this plant while utilizing modern extraction techniques to standardize purity and potency.” Creating a tampon, rather than a pill per se, helps “deliver the medicine directly to where it is needed most.” There’s a catch though—the tampons are only available in for residents of Colorado and for residents of California with a medical marijuana card or physician’s recommendation letter. The site says that it is working hard “to make Foria available wherever cannabis infused products are available by state law.” \[h/t [Woman’s Day](http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/a55795/marijuana-tampons/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/"},"headline":"Cannabis Tampons Are Now a Thing","datePublished":"2016-08-02T15:39:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:03.913Z","description":"Sorry, they won't get you high","url":"https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1d7323cd487b92/6988a0cca988ca04396b8ef1/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1d7323cd487b92/6988a0cca988ca04396b8ef1/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Multiple sized marijuana leaves","caption":"Multiple sized marijuana leaves","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4435078/cannabis-tampons-cramps-relief/","name":"Cannabis Tampons Are Now a Thing"}}]}] ```