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A new and dangerous candy is popping up in schools. Its main ingredient? Weed.
The drug-infused candy is easy to hide from teachers and parents, because unlike raw marijuana, it does not smell.
Gresham police officer Rick Blake says the candy, which is often molded into the shape of a skull, is growing in popularity.
"We haven't experienced anything like this up until about a month ago... ever since then it's starting to increase in its popularity," he said.
More at http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Weed-infused-candy-gets-students-high-during-class--191870461.html .
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Page cannot be found. Was the Newspaper sucking the lollipops too. I really doubt this candy is that "good".
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Marijuana is HARMLESS. And I'm sure these kids are just fine. Granted, they shouldn't bring it to school. But other than that, harmless.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)J/S.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Warpy
(110,908 posts)poured into a hair tonic, shaving lotion or other bottle, which was the favorite trick in my high school.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)Oops, I meant not !
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)I spent my entire time in high school high and I don't recall it ever being dangerous. The worst that happened is I'd zone out and fall asleep in the back of the class.
Igel
(35,191 posts)You go to school. You get high. And for the next day or two you're much less likely to actually learn as much as a non-high control. Do this week after week, and you get significantly lower grades. It screws up your amygdala for a while.
More accurately, "I spent my entire time in high school high and I don't recall nearly as much as I would have."
And that's in addition to the "I'd zone out and fall asleep in the back of class" problem.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)And certainly it differs from person to person. My grades were bad for one semester, and that semester I wasn't doing pot (mostly just lazy and adjusting to high school life). I'd fall asleep at the back of class, but I did that even when I wasn't smoking. Bottom line - it wasn't dangerous. Stupid? Your evidence suggests it certainly could be ... but I don't think it's dangerous.
Dpm12
(512 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Big deal.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)Like I can purchase a wine cooler, or a beer.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)eShirl
(18,466 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)Cheeba Chews are awesome... The deca-dose Chews will knock anyone for a loop, I love em
eShirl
(18,466 posts)BTW did you know that cannabis and hops are somewhat closely related? I find I enjoy hoppy beers...
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)I do know that Sierra Nevada is an awesome ale though
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 19, 2013, 09:49 PM - Edit history (1)
It worked fine. I grafted cannabis tops to hops roots, and the grafts worked great. The plants grew normally, and looked like hops. Only problem is the psychoactive ingredients got lost in the shuffle. The result did not get anyone stoned.
edit to correct: It was hops tops to cannabis roots. (duh!)
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)It's gonna be some tasty loaves
eShirl
(18,466 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)Hard Assets
(274 posts)I've tried the deco - and it's not too bad...
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)They do not hit me as powerfully as Cheeba Chews... The taste though is far superior. Cheeba Chews taste like you've eaten a gob of chocolate flavored ganj, heh. The Blue Kudu is a very fine chocolate in it's own right with only the smallest taste of ganj to it. I just got back from the dispensary a few minutes ago and picked up a few of them, $14 each.
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)I thought it was supposed to well-regulated and taxed, and kept away from kids.
This thread reveals how cool and funny people think it is that underage kids are
gaining access to drugs at school.
I realize what a SQUARE, UPTIGHT FUCKIN' NARC I am, MANNNNNNNNN...but if you truly want it
legal, shit like this isn't really all that funny.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)backtoblue
(11,323 posts)legalization would have the opposite effect - adults would be able to get to these "novelties" as well become more aware of what their kids are consuming. Hell, I didn't even know about pot candy (besides homemade brownies) before this.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)No need to scream.
What would you have us do? Wail, gnash our teeth and head to the nearest Temperance Revival Meeting.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Those are the two choices.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)I was doing acid in high school while it was still legal.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Kids have been getting drunk or high forever, and adults have been outraged.
I will point out that this happened under prohibition, not legalization.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Weed being a substance safer than water or oxygen, I was taking my chances. No worries.
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)I'm a bit surprised to get such a reaction from somebody on the threshold of a dream.
Eighteen minutes to get 25 replies--I bet there will be a lot of people taking a computer break at 4:20.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Or what's that shit they have in Dallas? Cheese?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Threedifferentones
(1,070 posts)How many movies and jokes and fond memories can we find of kids getting drunk? That doesn't mean binge drinking is good or okay for anybody, but it's no reason to ban alcohol.
Prohibition did not work for booze, and itt has not for "weed."
In conclusion, "a lot of people" are very bad at judging evidence objectively, and are instead easily moved by empotional appeals. MY GOD, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
Speaking of which, did anyone remember to put them to bed before we opened the wine?
TheKentuckian
(24,943 posts)The prohibition by definition makes drugs far more accessible than liquor. What is funny is pretending to care while downing legalization.
I also don't see getting my knickers in a twist because a kid got high.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)BTW, you need to remove the final period in the link.
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)All the good things came after I graduated (new libraries, AC in the classrooms, new extracurricular classes)!
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)I'm pretty sure booze was readily available going back to like forever.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)The perfect addition to every dessert!
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)To hell with weight and blood sugar management.
waddirum
(976 posts)I'm soaking in it! (like Madge from Palmolive)
Walk away
(9,494 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)I have a bar glass from the Flying Saucer that came out on April 20, 2008. It has a picture of Michael Phelps toking on a bong.
Weedies
The Breakfast of Champions
No seeds
No stems
100% buds
Wake n Bake Toasted Flakes
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Could this article be more buzz-wordier? This is WHY pot should be legal and controlled and taxed and sold in stores where kids can't go like liquor is now.
However, if some kids did get hold of some pot candies, they'd still be safer than if they had a bottle of aspirin. And a lot safer than if they had a bottle of vodka.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)out all the red flags. Further evidence of just how F'ed up the US can be.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)The privilege of posting the OP is that everyone else has to wait for me to grab my stash first!
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)when we hear about kids doing something they are not supposed to be doing
Gorp
(716 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Even in medical marijuana states it could be distributed as medication.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Chocolate, soda, hard candies, gummies, cookies, chips, cakes. you name it all available from my local MMJ delivery service.
In fact I was getting my carry-on searched at the airport, watched the TSA take out two candy bars, a Snickers, and a "420 Toffee & Milk Chocolate" bar look at them and put them back.
I was a little nervous, but he seemed way more interested in my electric toothbrush.
green for victory
(591 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)white_wolf
(6,238 posts)It might have made Geometry more bearable.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)as a high-rise crane operator.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)I can attest that it made all of my math classes more bearable--especially the 8 a.m. calculus III class with "Rambling Ralph" the professor. There was one time that we got a walk in the class so I ducked out the side window and was on the rolling roads by 8:20 (celebrating the fact that it is always 4:20 somewhere)!
Kurska
(5,739 posts)I think it was hippies 50 fucking years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if edibles had been around for thousands of years though.
What a sensationalist piece of dribble.
Marijuana is harmless, btw.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Nolimit
(142 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 20, 2013, 12:11 AM - Edit history (1)
I've been given treats that, unknown to me, had drugs in it, seriously not cool.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Well I would hope so. Otherwise the kid got ripped off!
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)jpak
(41,741 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)we had a smoking area. It wasn't just cigarettes we smoke. The nuns never figured out what was going on.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I'd have no students left. Except those two Mormon kids in second hour, and I'm not sure about one of them.
FreeState
(10,553 posts)When you make sugar candy and add a tincture it cooks the weed - at about 200°