Althouse: "The bags of Kraft marshmallows looked innocent enough. But a meat injector was also found in the car."

May 17, 2015

"The bags of Kraft marshmallows looked innocent enough. But a meat injector was also found in the car."

"After searching the Internet, Chief Jeffries realized that the marshmallows probably had been infused with the marijuana butter and heat-sealed into their bags.... Across the country, law enforcement agencies long accustomed to seizures of bagged, smokable marijuana are now wrestling with a surge in marijuana-infused snacks and confections transported illegally across state lines for resale."

38 comments:

pious agnostic said...: Can I have s'more?; 5/17/15, 8:30 AM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: The Drug War - just let it go already.

A monumental waste of time and effort.; 5/17/15, 8:42 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I'm reserving judgment until we hear from the American Lung Association.; 5/17/15, 8:46 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Background checks at the point of purchase for meat injectors.

And close the cooking show loophole.; 5/17/15, 8:54 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: I couldn't get past the phrase "meat injector."

I feel like I should be wearing an Iron Maiden concert T-shirt.

I am Laslo.; 5/17/15, 9:09 AM
Anonymous said...: Obama will stop this via his ban on trans fats. The dope can go through but the fats will be confiscated.; 5/17/15, 9:10 AM
lemondog said...: Are these so-called edibles labeled as pot infused?

What if a diabetic unknowingly buys the sugar-free snack?

Hope your surgeon hasn't unknowingly (or knowingly)munched a Kraft marshmallow just prior to your operation.; 5/17/15, 9:14 AM
rhhardin said...: Apparently the price is higher in places where it's still illegal.

That's economics for you.; 5/17/15, 9:16 AM
lemondog said...: Hope your surgeon hasn't unknowingly (or knowingly)munched a Kraft marshmallow just prior to your operation.

Or your train operator......; 5/17/15, 9:19 AM
steve uhr said...: Ever put a marshmallow in the microwave? ... Even better if you're stoned.; 5/17/15, 9:26 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Hopefully your surgeon is smart enough to catch a clue when he pays an outrageous price to a tatted up dude open-carrying a meat injector and selling marshmallows out of the trunk of a car.; 5/17/15, 9:28 AM
Beldar said...: Does this mean Boulder is the new marshmallow capital of the world?; 5/17/15, 9:35 AM
madAsHell said...: The Drug War - just let it go already.

Mr. Tony Robinson would be healthy if he hadn't squandered his SSI payment on 'shrooms.

We really need to stop investing in people that can't make good decisions.; 5/17/15, 9:35 AM
Beldar said...: @ lemondog:

Sugar isn't required. What's required is the fat that's in butter, because the THC binds to it but won't dissolve in water.

But it makes the butter taste foul, so people tend to hide the taste with powerful flavors like chocolate and sweets -- ask Alice B. Toklas about her brownies.

Ten seconds of googling can find you low-cal/no-cal, low-carb/high fat recipes for your infused cannabis butter or oil.; 5/17/15, 9:38 AM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: Mr. Tony Robinson would be healthy if he hadn't been shot.; 5/17/15, 9:44 AM
Etienne said...: There'd be a body count if J. Edgar Hoover was still in charge of prohibition.

I miss the good old days...; 5/17/15, 9:52 AM
chickelit said...: Beldar said...
-- ask Alice B. Toklas about her brownies.

Go ask Alice!; 5/17/15, 9:53 AM
chickelit said...: Shorter ARM: We should completely ignore any probable cause for erratic behavior which endangers lives. Get used to it and enjoy your buzz, dammit!; 5/17/15, 9:55 AM
cubanbob said...: AReasonableMan said...
Mr. Tony Robinson would be healthy if he hadn't been shot.

5/17/15, 9:44 AM

Which would not have happened if he hadn't been high and attacked a cop. Come to think of it, Robinson wasn't healthy just prior to his demise, he was terminally stupid.; 5/17/15, 9:57 AM
Dr Weevil said...: If Tony Robinson hadn't been shot by a policeman, there is a non-trivial possibility that he would have died that day from running in front of a bus, jumping out a window, falling down the stairs, assaulting an armed civilian, or one of the many other fatal things that people freaking out on mushrooms tend to do.

If ARM had written "would probably be healthy" he would have been correct: "would be healthy" is simply untrue.; 5/17/15, 10:06 AM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/17/15, 10:51 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: It was a long nerve wracking drive out of Colorado last year on US50 through southern Kansas with Florida plates. But the girlfriend loved the packaged peanut butter bars available in Colorado so... It felt like 1969 all over again except it was a Chevy van instead of a VW Westfalia.; 5/17/15, 10:56 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Bad trip...; 5/17/15, 10:57 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: Addendum - And my hair was much, much shorter.; 5/17/15, 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Blogger AReasonableMan said...
The Drug War - just let it go already.

A monumental waste of time and effort.

5/17/15, 8:42 AM
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The War on Poverty just let it go already.

A monumental waste of time and effort.; 5/17/15, 11:29 AM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/17/15, 11:49 AM
madAsHell said...: So, I wonder if these horror stories about ingesting MJ might be exaggerated.

Trust me, you don't want to ingest too much marijuana.; 5/17/15, 12:57 PM
Mountain Maven said...: How's that legalization working out?; 5/17/15, 1:10 PM
PuertoRicoSpaceport.com said...: WOW!

After searching the Internet, Chief Jeffries realized that the marshmallows probably had been infused with the marijuana butter and heat-sealed into their bags.

“This is the first time that we have ever seen marijuana butter or any of this candy containing marijuana in the county,” Chief Jeffries said.

So he looks on the internet, always a reliable source of information and misinformation and realized that the presence of the meat injector "probably" meant MJ infused marshmallows.

No word in the article about whether they actually contained MJ and he gets a national story about it that gets everyone's panties in a bunch. Including some here.

How about get back to us when lab tests show that there is MJ in the MMs

John Henry; 5/17/15, 1:41 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: http://www.westword.com/news/recreational-marijuana-sales-top-42-million-in-march-another-new-record-6714038

You punks stay the Hell out of CO. It is scary and dangerous here, an entire State in the state of that CO suicide boy Hunt Thompson when he described the Kentucky Derby in 1973.

The economy has gone to Hell, just as anti Prop 64 forces predicted. You see, decent folks don't want to live or invest in an area as backward as Denver with their damned druggie drugged-up doping burn-outs. I predict the state will cease to exist in 14 years, and the Mormons will simply move East and resurrect the dead husk of a state that once was known as Colorado.; 5/17/15, 1:59 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

That is Hunt describing the depravity at the damn Derby, which is what my State looks like thanks to my vote for 64.

I won't apologize as I am, with God, simply immenitizing my eschaton.; 5/17/15, 2:09 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I can't read that *^1970^* piece by Hunt in any voice other than J. Depps from his Fear and Loathing role.; 5/17/15, 2:14 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: If you were a cop, and didn't have the training I offer folks, for $2 million or 30 years of monthly $7984 payments, showing you how things work, your subconscious would demand you "copulate" when hungry for a fix.

Copulation enhancement is my specialty, and as only Genius can do, I spread it across differing fields.; 5/17/15, 2:33 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I see a lot of W. P. Mayhew (played by John Mahoney) in this piece by Hunt from the 1970,s era.; 5/17/15, 3:04 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "Total chaos, no way to see the race, not even the track...nobody
cares"

This rings true.; 5/17/15, 4:25 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Look, maybe this is all on me.

I called "Phillies" wenct Meant was fillies of lower class.

I cannot relate in any way to lower class. Fillies so construct confounding conspicuously.; 5/17/15, 4:45 PM
gbarto said...: If a politician calls it a war and it involves anything other shooting foreign enemies, we should let it go.; 5/17/15, 9:59 PM
TCR James said...: Marijuana infused snacks... now that's killing two birds while one's stoned...; 5/18/15, 9:42 AM