Petra is Kiva Confections' cannabis mint line: 2.5 milligrams of THC or less a piece, 40 to a tin, launched in California in December 2016 as Kiva's first product that wasn't chocolate. Kiva bills it as the mint that "sparked a microdosing revolution." In 2026 Petra runs six flavors across THC, CBD and CBN formulas and sells in seven states, including Florida.
December 2016: Kiva's first non-chocolate
Kiva Confections built its name on chocolate bars and Terra bites, so a breath mint was a left turn. Petra debuted on December 5, 2016, in two flavors, Moroccan Mint and Eucalyptus, sugar-free and made with California-grown cannabis, with Lemongrass and Pineapple announced for the following months. The launch recipe already included green tea matcha.
The pitch was the dose. "New cannabis consumers will need access to products containing small amounts of THC," said co-founder Kristi Knoblich Palmer, then Kiva's COO. "Petra caters to those looking for a very moderate and controlled experience." Kiva handed out a pamphlet called A Tiny Guide to Microdosing with the launch, and when Kristi Palmer looked back on fifteen years of Kiva in December 2025, she credited Petra with introducing microdosing to consumers.
A mint built on matcha and xylitol
Four of the six current flavors are built on xylitol instead of sugar, and Kiva calls Moroccan Mint, Cinnamon CBD and Blackberry CBN sugar-free and plant-based. Moroccan Mint, the original, blends matcha, peppermint extract and Tahitian vanilla, sweetened with xylitol and stevia. Tart Cherry shares the xylitol base. Pineapple and Citrus CBD are built on sucrose and maltodextrin instead.
The format does the dosing work. Each tin holds 40 mints, and the THC flavors come in at 2.5 milligrams a mint and 100 milligrams a tin. Prepared Foods reported in 2022 that Kiva's mint equipment turns out precisely dosed pieces, and Kristi Palmer told the magazine that the line keeps "its low-dose roots" even as flavors change.
"Since Petra appeals to so many different kinds of audiences and tastes, it was important to us to create flavors with mass appeal," she said.
The six-flavor lineup in 2026
- Moroccan Mint: 2.5 mg THC per mint; the launch flavor and Petra's top seller on Headset's August 2026 chart
- Tart Cherry: 2.5 mg THC, tart fruit on the xylitol base
- Pineapple: 2.5 mg THC; first announced in 2016 as a follow-up flavor
- Cinnamon CBD 1:1: Saigon cinnamon with 2.5 mg THC matched by CBD
- Citrus CBD: lemon and lime, CBD-forward with less than 0.2 mg THC per mint, sold in California only
- Blackberry CBN: blackberry and vanilla with CBN added to the THC; Prepared Foods called it the newest flavor in 2022
Eucalyptus, half of the 2016 launch, is no longer on the menu. The CBD and CBN mints followed the same logic Kiva applied to Camino, whose gummies pair THC with minor cannabinoids, but Petra keeps the THC side small.
Where Petra sells
Kiva's flavor pages list Petra in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan and Ohio, with each flavor's footprint a little different. Moroccan Mint covers all seven. Pineapple skips California and Massachusetts, Cinnamon CBD runs in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Michigan, and Citrus CBD stays in California. In Michigan, Planted Provisioning in Whitmore Lake had a 100-milligram Pineapple tin on its menu at $22 in summer 2026, from a batch lab-tested on July 24.
The rollout followed Kiva's partner model. Ohio got Petra in January 2021 through Klutch, which launched it alongside Kiva bars, Terra and Camino. Oklahoma partner 24K Labs lined up Petra and Terra for late 2021, and C3 Industries scheduled Petra's Missouri rollout for 2023.
Florida came through AYR Wellness, whose August 2023 exclusive license for Kiva products named Petra mints, and Ayr's 2026 menus list Petra at 65 Florida medical dispensaries. Petra was also on the list for Kiva's 2022 Canadian launch with producer Greentone.
Petra Citrus CBD mints were on sale at Kiva's booth at Grass Lands, the cannabis area at Outside Lands in San Francisco, in 2019, when about 12,000 festivalgoers stopped by.
Petra by the numbers
Headset's August 2026 data puts Petra in 659 licensed dispensaries across California, Michigan and four other states, with more than $500,000 in monthly sales, up 15.2% year over year. It ranked No. 19 among edible brands in both California and Michigan, climbing two spots in Michigan from a year earlier, and No. 30 in Ohio. Moroccan Mint's 40-pack was the top Petra product that month, with nearly $250,000 in sales.
Those are big numbers for a product whose whole idea is a small serving. Kiva still sells Petra the way it did in 2016: a portable tin, a precise 2.5-milligram piece, and flavors that range from spicy to sour to sweet.
For adults 21 and over.