Last reviewed: October 19, 2026 · OG Cannabis, 469 Dundas St W
A 5,000 mg gummy pack holds four pieces. Each piece carries roughly 1,250 mg of THC. Health Canada’s guidance for anyone choosing an edible is to look for products containing 2.5 mg of THC or less, which makes one of these gummies about five hundred starting doses. That is the number to hold in your head before you open the bag.
This post is the practical version: what is actually in the pack, how to portion it, why cutting it up is less precise than it looks, and what to do if you get it wrong. If you want the regulatory background instead, we wrote separately about why legal edibles stop at 10 mg.
The short answer
- What is in the pack: four gummies of about 1,250 mg THC each.
- One gummy is: roughly 500 starting doses at 2.5 mg.
- Cutting it: gives an estimate, not a dose, because THC may not be spread evenly.
- Timing: wait at least 2 hours before taking more.
- Not for: first-timers or occasional users.
Sources: Health Canada; Government of British Columbia.
What is actually in the pack
Most people read “5,000 mg” and picture a bag of small gummies. Check the piece count before you assume. A 5,000 mg bag contains four gummies, and the total is divided between them, so each one is around 1,250 mg.
Put that next to the legal shelf. A licensed Ontario retailer may sell you a whole package containing 10 mg of THC in total. One gummy in this bag holds about 125 packages’ worth. The bag holds about 500.
Our own product listings describe these as designed for high-tolerance consumers and recommended for experienced users only. That is accurate and it is not marketing softening. It is the actual use case.
The arithmetic, and why it is worse than it looks
Public health guidance is to begin at 2.5 mg of THC or less and wait at least two hours before taking a second 2.5 mg dose. Measured against a 1,250 mg gummy, here is what portions actually come to.
| Portion of one gummy | Approximate THC, if evenly distributed | Versus a 2.5 mg starting dose |
|---|---|---|
| The whole gummy | 1,250 mg | 500× |
| Half | 625 mg | 250× |
| A quarter | 313 mg | 125× |
| One tenth | 125 mg | 50× |
| One twentieth | 63 mg | 25× |
| One fiftieth | 25 mg | 10× |
| One hundredth | 13 mg | 5× |
| One five-hundredth | 2.5 mg | 1× |
Read the bottom row again. A starting dose is one five-hundredth of a single gummy. Even a piece cut into one hundred parts still carries more THC than an entire legal package is allowed to contain.
This is the part that catches out people who smoke regularly and assume tolerance transfers. It transfers only partly. Eaten cannabis is processed by the liver before it reaches you, it arrives later, and it hits differently. A high smoking tolerance is not a licence to take a quarter of one of these.
Why cutting it up does not give you a dose
Here is the limitation that most dosing advice skips, and it matters more than the arithmetic above.
The table assumes the THC is spread evenly through the gummy. In a regulated product with tested, homogenised batches, that assumption is reasonable. In an unregulated high-potency product it is an assumption and nothing more. THC can sit unevenly within a single piece and can vary between pieces in the same bag. So one tenth of a gummy is not reliably one tenth of the THC. It might be a twentieth. It might be a fifth.
What that means for you: treat every portion you cut as an estimate with a wide margin, not a measurement. Anyone who tells you to cut a 1,250 mg gummy into “precise 10 mg doses” is describing something the product cannot actually deliver. The honest approach is to cut small, wait long, and assume the piece is stronger than the maths says.
If you are going to do this, here is the method
Assuming you have edible experience and you are working with this pack anyway, this is how to handle it with the least risk.
- Cut on a clean board with a sharp knife, not by biting. Biting a corner off gives you no idea how much you took, and gummies are hard to cut accurately once warm. Chill the gummy first and it slices far more cleanly.
- Start smaller than your arithmetic suggests. If you were planning a twentieth, take a fortieth. The cost of going too low is a boring evening. The cost of going too high is covered further down this page.
- Take it with food, not on an empty stomach. Effects come on slower and less sharply.
- Write down the time and the portion. Two hours later you will not trust your memory, and that is exactly when the decision about a second piece gets made.
- Wrap and label the remainder immediately. A cut gummy loose on a counter is the single most likely way somebody else in the house eats 300 mg by accident.
- Change one thing at a time. Do not try a new portion size, a new flavour and a new setting in the same evening. You will learn nothing you can use next time.
The two-hour rule
Effects begin somewhere between 30 minutes and 2 hours after eating, and full effects can take up to 4 hours to arrive. Intoxication can last up to 12 hours, with residual effects up to 24. An edible taken at 9 PM can still be with you over breakfast.
So the rule is simple and it is not negotiable: wait at least two hours before taking any more. Nearly every bad edible experience follows the same script. Nothing happens after forty minutes, so the person takes more, then more again, and all three doses land together around the ninety minute mark.
Forty minutes of feeling nothing is not information. It is the normal beginning of the curve. The full hour-by-hour timeline is in our guide to how long edibles take to kick in.
What too much feels like, and when to get help
Provincial health guidance lists the effects of consuming too much cannabis as sleepiness, confusion, disorientation, clumsiness or loss of coordination, fainting, dizziness, chest pain, a fast, slow or pounding heartbeat, panic attacks, loss of contact with reality, paranoia, and seizures.
Most of the time, the answer is unglamorous. Get somewhere safe and quiet, sit or lie down, have water nearby, and do not get behind the wheel or ride a bike. It passes. As the effects wear off you should begin feeling less anxious and less uncomfortable. Having somebody with you who knows what you took helps more than anything else on this list.
Call 911 right away for chest pain, a panic attack you cannot calm, or a seizure. Do not wait to see if it settles.
Ontario Poison Centre: 1-800-268-9017, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Call immediately, before symptoms appear, if a child or a pet has eaten any edible.
Sources: Cannabis: lower your risks, Health Canada. Edible cannabis safe use fact sheet, Government of British Columbia. Health considerations of the legalization of cannabis edibles, CMAJ. Good and bad experiences, Province of Manitoba. Ontario Poison Centre.
Things that make it worse
Four reliably.
Alcohol. Drinking alongside an edible tends to intensify the effects and makes judgment about redosing considerably worse. If you are going to do both, do neither at the same time.
An empty stomach. Faster and sharper onset, less warning, less control.
Being somewhere unfamiliar, or alone. Setting does a great deal of the work in how an intense experience goes. A first attempt at a new portion size belongs at home on a night with nothing scheduled.
Any vehicle. Nobody in a vehicle that is being driven or could be put into motion may consume cannabis in any manner, and that wording covers edibles. Driving impaired carries the same penalties as alcohol. Given effects can last 12 hours, the morning after an evening edible is not automatically clear either.
Who should not buy this pack
Worth saying plainly, because we would rather sell you the right thing once than the wrong thing once.
If you have never taken an edible, or you take them rarely, a 5,000 mg pack is the wrong purchase. Not because you cannot handle it, but because the portions you would need are too small to cut accurately from a 1,250 mg piece, and the margin for error is unforgiving. Start with a 420 mg or 500 mg pack, where a sensible portion is something you can actually see on a knife.
The same goes if you are buying for someone else and do not know their experience level, or if you are choosing a product for a night you cannot write off. Our high-potency range runs from 420 mg upward, so there is a long way to climb before you need this bag.
If you are already comfortable at 100 mg or more and you want the format, that is exactly who the 5,000 mg packs are for.
Storage is part of dosing
A cut 1,250 mg gummy is one of the more dangerous things in a household, because it looks like confectionery and is now missing its packaging. Wrap the remainder, put it back in the original bag, and store the bag locked, high up and out of sight. Not a kitchen drawer, not the fridge shelf at eye level for a child.
This is not a throwaway line. Child poisoning data after edible legalization in Canada is the strongest argument the regulators have, and the average age in the largest study was three and a half. We covered that research in the post on the 10 mg limit.
The short version
- Four pieces per bag, about 1,250 mg each. One gummy is roughly 500 starting doses.
- Cut small, chilled, with a knife. Assume every portion is stronger than the maths suggests, because even distribution is not guaranteed.
- Wait two full hours before considering more. Forty minutes of nothing is not information.
- Chest pain, panic attack or seizure means call 911. Anything else, the Ontario Poison Centre is on 1-800-268-9017, 24 hours.
- New to edibles? Buy a 420 mg or 500 mg pack instead. This one is not the place to learn.
Common questions
How many gummies are in a 5,000 mg pack?
Four, at roughly 1,250 mg of THC each. Check the piece count on any high-potency pack before you open it, because the total on the front of the bag tells you nothing about how it is divided or how big a single piece is.
How much of a 1,250 mg gummy should I take?
Far less than seems reasonable. A 2.5 mg starting dose is one five-hundredth of a single gummy. Even a fiftieth carries around 25 mg, which is ten times a starting dose. Cut the smallest sliver you practically can and wait two hours.
Can I cut it into exact 10 mg doses?
No. The arithmetic would suggest a piece around one hundred and twenty-fifth of a gummy, but THC is not guaranteed to be evenly distributed through an unregulated product. Treat any portion as an estimate with a wide margin rather than a measured dose.
I smoke every day. Does my tolerance carry over?
Only partly. Eaten cannabis is processed by the liver first, arrives later and feels different from inhaled cannabis. A high smoking tolerance is not a reason to take a large portion of a 1,250 mg gummy. Start at the same small portion anyone else would.
What do I do if I have taken too much?
Get somewhere safe and quiet, sit down, have water, do not get behind the wheel or cycle, and stay with someone if you can. It passes. Chest pain, a panic attack or a seizure means call 911 immediately. For advice on anything less severe, call the Ontario Poison Centre on 1-800-268-9017.
How long will it last?
Effects begin within 30 minutes to 2 hours, reach full strength by around 4 hours, and intoxication can last up to 12 hours with residual effects up to 24. Plan for the whole evening and the following morning, not for a couple of hours.
Last reviewed October 19, 2026. General information, not medical advice. You must be 19 or older to purchase cannabis in Ontario. Keep all cannabis products locked and out of reach of children and pets. If you are worried about your cannabis use, speak to a doctor or pharmacist.
Keep reading: why Ontario edibles stop at 10 mg, 1,000 mg vs 5,000 mg edibles, and how long edibles take to kick in. Every strength we carry is on our high-dose edibles page.
