Drug Ring Sold Pot-Laced Candy, Soda

[KansDem]

Pot Tarts, Toka-Cola, Munchy Ways seized in DEA raids



MARCH 17--A California drug operation manufactured marijuana-laced candy and soft drinks that were packaged to resemble popular products like Jolly Ranchers, Milky Way, and Pop Tarts. The pot ring, busted yesterday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, was headquartered in Oakland and allegedly headed by Kenneth Affolter, 39, who was one of 12 alleged dealers nabbed. DEA raids at indoor pot-growing facilities turned up the marijuana-infused products, which carried labels such as Toka-Cola, Pot Tarts, Puff-A-Mint Pattie, Stoney Ranchers, Munchy Way, and Buddahfinger. A DEA spokesperson told TSG that the pot was baked into chocolate bars and hard candies and that the soda contained concentrated hash oil. A label on the ring's Nestle Crunch knockoff describes the item's ingredients as "milk chocolate with crisped rice dipped in hash oil rich chocolate." Some of the seized items can be seen in the evidence photos on the following pages. In a statement, DEA agent Javier Pena noted that Affolter's pot ring, which operated under the name Beyond Bomb, was "not only illegal, but potentially tragic," since "innocent children will somehow get their hands on these products and think they are just normal candy or soft drinks."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0317061candy1.html

Talk about marketing!!!

[anarch]

1. mmmmmm, Buddahfinger

Well this is certainly a great victory in the War on Drugs. Yay. :eyes:


Edited to add: Here are a couple more things that are "potentially tragic" as "innocent children will somehow get their hands on them."

Observe the shiny red package:

This one kinda looks like a can of pop:

[benburch]

2. DAMN!

I missed it.

THIS is how the commercial market for weed would look were it legal. And sales tax and income tax would be collected on ALL of that.

[400Years]

3. DEA fear mongering

you can buy hash brownies in Amsterdam and I don't see them going around acting saying shit like "innocent children will somehow get their hands on these products and think they are just normal candy or soft drinks."

[CottonBear]

4. Munchy Way! Keef Kat!

Bwahahahahahahaha! :rofl:

These remind me of those wacky fake product labels that came with bubblegum back in the 1970s. ;)

[rinsd]

5. These products are sold in the marijuana dispensaries....

...so that people don't have smoking as the only option. They also have peanut butter, honey etc.

"innocent children will somehow get their hands on these products and think they are just normal candy or soft drinks."

LOL, at $15 a bar in the store where you have to have your card and paperwork, I doubt it.

[High Plains]

6. These products are sold in medical marijuana dispensaries

for sick people helped by pot who don't want to smoke it.

Fuck the DEA.

[rinsd]

9. Jinx you owe me a Coke. I'll take it laced or straight up! (nt)

[High Plains]

18. Will that be a Toka-Cola? Great minds think alike, I guess.

[rinsd]

20. Scary, was almost word for word....

I'll see you at the 50 yard line.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. Actually...

plenty of NON-sick people out here hang at the clinics and use them for their pot connection. I know this because I have (too) many friends here who do just that. There are plenty of doctors who are perfectly willing to write a script for the right $$$ -- they advertise in the weeklies, for heaven's sake. With that said, I am a firm supporter of medical marijuana clinics -- I just don't like it when folks pretend there are not non-medical users of the service.

[stillcool]

14. Why don't they just buy pot?...

seems an awful lot of trouble to go through to get high....if that's all they're interested in.

[rinsd]

19. Quality....

Medical marijuana is usually of outstanding quality that is difficult to find in such variety via illegal channels. You have to go Amsterdam to get a similar selection.

[stillcool]

26. My how things change....

but I guess the feds have always had the good stuff.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. Not a lot of trouble at ALL...

for 100% legal (in SF) pot. It's 1:10 here in San Francisco -- by the end of the day I could have a medical marijuana in my hand if I chose to. One my my friends used to do his own growing - for him, it was why go through all the bother when he can get legally down the street?

[rinsd]

16. "not non-medical users of the service."

I won't pretend at all. I have 3 firends with their cards. One has it because of anxiety, one because of chemo and one because his roommate has one and he is the designated care taker (you must be 21 to get your card, if you aren't you must have a desginated care giver). So in many people's eyes you would have one legit, one questionable and one very questionable. More local/oversight is needed working within the framework of the law.

But we also shouldn't pretend that there aren't plenty of doctors who are perfectly willing to write a script for the right $$$ for regular drugs and other abuses of script drugs.

[crikkett]

24. so, the stuff is good for just about anything

headaches, sleeping problems, stress. Ancient peoples, including Christians are thought to have used marijuana tinctures to cure everything.
:grr:

Compared to Ambien at $6/pill where you end up sleep-driving and sleep-unhinging your jaw in front of the fridge,

Compared to liquor which causes so many problems that it was outlawed in the 20's,

I'd say you indignation is unjustified.

[derby378]

7. Do you hear that sound?

It's the sound of copyright trademark violation attorneys sharpening their knives...

[crikkett]

25. that's the real crime here.

you're right.

[leveymg]

8. In a nearly sane world, this is how one would buy recreational drugs.

The tragic thing is that these guys are going to prison, while the criminals who run the country are continuing to run around starting wars that kill hundreds of thousands of people at a pop.

[mike_c]

10. DEA propaganda....

These products are not sold by "dealers" on the street. They're sold at dispensaries legal under California law to patients who have been prescribed marijuana. Pigs.

[underpants]

15. I would guess that they were sold to people who knew they were buying pot

That would be my guess but it does imply that they were trying to lure little children into their dark dark world with one pot laced KeefKat. It only takes one time you know and you are stealing grandma's jewelry and turning tricks. 3

:sarcasm:

[Don Claybrook]

11. Just think of all the lives saved!!!

These products would've made their way to children, the DEA is right. I know from personal experience: I lost my first 2 children when they found my angel dust stash disguised as children's candy, and just a few weeks ago one of the neighbor's kids apparently stole some of my crack-casserole and it didn't end well.

But my experience is nothing up against this. This is POT, after all, and you know it's gotten much more dangerous with each passing year. And now the Canadian terrorists are slipping it over the border and giving it to our children, along with tracts on how to become a homosexual. And I can't confirm this just yet, but the word on the street is that heroin and pot have switched roles, with heroin now acting as the gateway drug for marijuana instead of the other way around.

I'm glad that the feds have made Oakland safe from, ah, from this self-fulfilling munchy-stimulating agent.

[Rick Myers]

17. Excellent rant, my friend!!!

I agree!

[0007]

23. All five star winner, report to the office for your prize, a big box

of donkey dicks.

[Mythsaje]

13. Ummm...

I'm pretty sure that kids getting their hands on some of this stuff would be unfortunate rather than "tragic," though I'm sure the DEA and its propaganda branches (NCDCP, for one) would love us to believe that by accidentally ingesting pot candy, the child would be in an alley with a needle stuck in his or her arm the very next day...

[crikkett]

22. Children Shmildren - Weren't these sold legally at legal CA pot clubs?

That's what I thought. Not that I've been in one, except to borrow the bathroom and grab a postcard to prove I was there.