That's hot dog: Dope laced barbecue sauce

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That's hot, dog: Dope-laced barbecue sauce

Article from: The Daily Telegraph

 

September 28, 2007 12:00am

 

SAN FRANCISCO: Federal agents said that they shut down a California factory that made marijuana-laced barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels and other "enhanced" snacks intended for medical users of the drug.

 

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it arrested three people and was looking for a fourth who operated Oakland-based Tainted Inc.

 

Agents also seized 460 marijuana plants and other laced products including candy bars, biscuits, marshmallow pies, ice cream, peanut butter, jelly, energy drinks and "Rice Krispy treats."

 

Tainted Inc was launched by Michael Martin, 33, as a small operation that made laced chocolate truffles.

 

When it was raided yesterday, the company was shipping products to medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California and in Seattle; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

Authorities said the operation also had ties to Los Angeles pot clubs and believe it had ordered four tons of chocolate over the past two years to make marijuana-laced candy.

 

Those arrested were Jessica Sanders, Michael Anderson and Diallo McLinn. Martin is a fugitive, authorities said.

 

The raids of the factory and four Bay Area houses came after a two-year investigation and growing police concern that the legalisation of medicinal marijuana in several states had caused a proliferation of large-scale marijuana-lacing operations.

 

Laced snacks are often more potent and longer lasting than smoked marijuana. Federal authorities contend that marijuana is an illegal drug, no matter how it used or who uses it, and they do not honour the state medical marijuana laws.

 

Several people who ran a marijuana-lacing operation called Beyond Bomb that produced such products as Stoney Rancher, Rasta Reese's and Keef Kat pleaded guilty this year in Oakland federal court to marijuana charges.

 

Beyond Bomb's founder Kenneth Affolter was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

 

"These items could have harmful effects on a user, especially the unsuspecting ones," DEA agent Javier Pena said. "We will continue to shut down these production lines, one marijuana-candy factory at a time."

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[WantDaChronic]

fucking feds all those people wanted to do was give medicinal users access to a drug that pharmacutical companies refuse to supply or only partly supply, eg. thc pills instead of pills cotaining all the known cannabinioids, etc. and now they'll face serious prison time for trafficking drugs

[Pam]

So, sick people lose more medicine.... When I was in Cali I had some and was able to sleep peacefully every night without pain!

One lollipop got me through being jammed into a plane seat elbow to elbow with strangers for over 3 hours.

 

They make this sound like the candy was for sale everywhere when you can only get it at the compassion clubs, and to get in those you have to have a medical card.

I have a California medical card...I didn't see a single child even near one of the clubs, but I did see some elderly people, crippled people, and alot of very nice friendly people. Some of them were obviously unable to make their own candy or even baked goods.

This is a disgusting shame.

I'm sure there is a special place in Hell just for these pricks that have nothing better to do than make the lives of suffering ppl even more difficult.