The Future Of The Drug War: Let Me Search Those Gummy Bears

Identification of the wares, which are mostly arriving in other states by way of the large scale and legal production processes in Colorado and California, is a drug warriors wet-dream. – Got some candy citizen? Thats probably cause!

Already around the country, police are searching and seizing food.

The Illinois state police charged a man in Kane County, Ill., with cannabis trafficking last year after discovering that 42 pounds of marijuana-infused chocolate had been sent to his home from a medical dispensary in California.

In February, police in San Antonio seized about $100 worth of edibles, including brownies, gummies and chocolate. During the same month in Franklin Township, Ohio, a county drug task force raided five locations, including an “illegal bakery,” and seized more than $1 million worth of marijuana plants, hashish oil and butter, and edibles ranging from brownies to fudge and other candies.

banner420banner420Also in February, Missouri troopers confiscated 400 pounds of commercially made marijuana chocolate, including Liquid Gold bars, hidden in boxes in an Infiniti QX60. The driver was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

In New Jersey, which has medical dispensaries, though edibles are still prohibited, the state police last month seized 80 pounds of homemade marijuana treats from the car of a Brooklyn man.

Last year, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs confiscated roughly 40 pounds of commercial marijuana products in one seizure, including taffylike Cheeba Chews and bottles of cannabis lemonade.

Recently, in LaFollette, Tennessee, officers pulled over a Chevy Blazer and found 24 pounds of marijuana-laced cookies, marshmallows, and small hard candies shaped like gingerbread men, plus a tub of marijuana butter for making more.

“This is the first time that we have ever seen marijuana butter or any of this candy containing marijuana in the county,” LaFollette Police Chief Jim Jeffries said. “We hope it’s the last time.”

Opposition groups of legalization are blaming the confections for accidental use of marijuana by children who are unaware of what it contains. During 2013 and 2014, however, only a total of 14 children were hospitalized for ingesting them and all of them survived.

DARE gets duppedDARE gets dupped“Marijuana. It is one of the most dangerous drugs on Earth,” an article appearing on the official D.A.R.E. website earlier this month read. “For every one joint of marijuana, four teenagers become burdened with pregnancy.”

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