Posted on 07/27/2006 6:53:52 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Feds Warn Of Marijuana-Filled Gumballs
Gumballs Called 'Greenades'
POSTED: 8:00 am EDT July 27, 2006
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Authorities aren't happy about yellow, smiley face gumballs.
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency is warning about so-called "Greenades," which are marijuana-containing gumballs.
Survey: Used Drugs? The DEA is issuing an intelligence bulletin about the pot candies to police departments across the country. The smiley face gumballs were first discovered at a Howard County, Md., high school in January.
Police charged three 17-year-old students after a teacher alerted a school resource officer. She told the officer that she saw a student give a plastic bag that the teacher believed contained drugs to another student.
The officer seized the bag, which contained two "candy balls," police said. The gumballs came wrapped in colorful tin foil labeled as "Greenades" with a marijuana leaf on the wrapper and detailed instructions for use. Instructions on the foil told users to chew for 30 minutes to 1 hour "before you would like receive your high" and to "chew for as long as possible, then swallow."
Officers charged two students with distribution of drugs on school property and a third with possession of marijuana.
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency recently released an intelligence bulletin about the "greenades."
Each gumball contained approximately one gram of marijuana, and the total net mass of the two gumballs was 17.5 grams.
If a toddler were to ingest the amount of THC, the active chemical in marijuana, in one gram of high grade marijuana it could produce harmful effects, according to PRWeb.
"The way drugs are being marketed and packaged these days to encourage kids to buy and use them is getting pretty sophisticated. The purpose, of course, is to create future clientele for drugs and what better-targeted market for a pusher than kids. They are young, experimental by nature and have the money to buy it. If they try it and like it, they could end up being a permanent customer that one day ends up in our rehabilitation facility, in jail or dead," J.T. Daily, Director of Drug Education for Narconon Arrowhead, one of the country’s leading drug rehabilitation and education centers, told PRWeb.
I want a case
...snicker
Nice wheels Joe Camel. You rock!
"If a toddler were to ingest the amount of THC, the active chemical in marijuana, in one gram of high grade marijuana it could produce harmful effects, according to PRWeb."
I have to wonder why they are so vague about the harm. Why can't they be more specific........
So now we know what Cindy Sheheen's been chewing!
I don't understand how this would work. Just eating marijuana will have very little effect. The THC needs heat. The stomach is not able to properly break it down. Unless there is something special about the gum, or the marijuana is specially prepared, this is a waste of marijuana.
Never had hash brownies??
Cornbread better matches the texture.
(It works, hey, I was a child of the '70's)
Maybe that's the harmful effects. ;-)
If this is true...How do they make the brownies and such?
I thought all drugs could be ingested but with more limited effects.
If you are trying to hide hard drugs from a cop and swallow them, you can easily die of OD should the bag open.
Uhmmmmm, one time in band camp.....
well those brownies I had once sure did a number on me...thought it took a long time feel any effect.
You mean all those marijuana brownies were just urban legends?
Bong water?
Did you eat them raw? Or were they cooked? If they were cooked, then the heat released the THC.
I believe the heat produced when cooking the brownies releases the THC needed for a buzz.
At least, that's what I've heard... yeah, that's the ticket.
You have to saute the weed in butter first, in order to render the THC into the fat of the butter. Then you use that butter in the brownies.
Don't ask me how I know this.
But if you just reach into a bag of weed and eat a big sticky bud you are wasting weed as it will have very little effect.
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