Marijuana gumballs

[MaryJaneScott]

i wonder what these taste like...
:confused:

Marijuana gumballs found at Md. school

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - Federal drug agents aren't laughing about marijuana packaged in yellow, smiley-faced gumballs.

The "Greenades" gumballs were found in January at Howard High School in Ellicott City. The federal Drug Enforcement Agency recently released an intelligence bulletin about them.

"It's a new idea and it's new to the DEA," Gregory Lee, a retired supervisory special agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency, told The Baltimore Examiner. "When it comes to drug dealing, you're only limited by your imagination."

Police charged three 17-year-old students after a teacher alerted a school resource officer. She told the officer that she saw a student give a plastic bag that the teacher believed contained drugs to another student.

The officer seized the bag, which contained two "candy balls" wrapped in foil, police said. Instructions on the foil told users to chew for 30 minutes to 1 hour before they wanted to be high and to "chew for as long as possible, then swallow."

Officers charged two students with distribution of drugs on school property and a third with possession of marijuana.

from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060727/ap_on_fe_st/marijuana_gumballs;_ylt=Apt50q5pB7R7C9svmr..gasZ.3 QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4cmUwbnA1BHNlYwMxNzAy

[Thetrippinhippie]

oh man, would i love to have one of those. i wonder what the high would be like? sorta like a brownie high or tea high? but..its gum? ok that didnt make sense

[OniEhtRedrum781]

that works? :confused:

[smok3y]

I want some..

[BigHomie]

here's the updated story... it's been all over the local news this morning.


ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Three Howard High School students were caught with drug-filled gumballs and have been charged, police said, and more of the gumballs have been discovered in Virginia.

The gumballs are called "greenades." They're stuffed with a greenish brown substance, which forensic experts said is marijuana, and they come professionally wrapped.

Officials from the Maryland State Police forensic lab said they have never seen anything like them, News4's Cheryl Butler reported. The lab recently received the two yellow gumballs, each with a smiley face printed on the side and filled with marijuana.

"There was actual marijuana inside the gumballs," said Sherry Llewellyn of the Howard County Police Department. "It looked like someone had drilled a hole in the back of the gumball and put the marijuana leaves inside."

The gumballs were confiscated at Howard High School in January, but the lab results have just been released.

"This really began with a teacher notifying one of our Howard County police officers stationed at the school that she had seen students exchanging a baggie," Llewellyn said. "It looked suspicious to her. When our officer investigated, she found it was two gumballs stuffed with marijuana."

Two students were charged with drug distribution and suspended from school for at least 45 days. One student was charged with drug possession and suspended for at least 10 days.

"I think this demonstrates to us the lengths kids will go to conceal illegal drugs," Llewellyn said.

School officials said they've never seen the gumball greenades on school property before, but they're prepared to crack down hard on offenders.

"The teacher and resource officer in Howard High School acted quickly and in accordance to how we want people to respond," said Patti Caplan of Howard County Schools. "We don't want drugs in our schools."

Officials said the gumballs came prepackaged in a shiny tinfoil wrapper labeled "greenades" with a tiny marijuana leaf and instructions for use printed there, too. Parents in Howard County said they're concerned the packaging may be alluring.

"It concerns me that the children have the marijuana in the gumballs," Kathy Ecklund said. "It seems to be getting in the schools one way or another."

Howard County police said each gumball contained about one gram of marijuana. The state forensic lab has not determined if the level of THC in the gumballs is lethal, but authorities warned parents to stay on the lookout because the gumballs are dangerous if ingested by kids.

On Saturday, Paul C. Cofer Jr. was arrested and charged with drug possession. Police said he had hundreds of the gumballs with the tops cut off in his apartment.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/9587696/detail.html
on the local news they interview this cop...
"police say they are especially dangerous.... "what he was doing was extracting thc from the marijuana so it was a concentrated form of the drug and much more potent. one detective said it's about 6 times more potent regular marijuana.""
doesn't matter if it they were 100 times more potent... still can hurt ya bud... ty try again.

[yoda]

HAVENT HEARD IF THE THC LEVELS ARE LETHAL????!!!??????? THATS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IVE EVER READ.....

and i sure wish i went to school in that neck of maryland...

[make it legal]

haha a lethal dose of marijuana. that made me laugh.

[OreO]

WTF!? i live in VA where can i get these gumballs?!

[BigHomie]

WTF!? i live in VA where can i get these gumballs?!
make em...
i don't think i'd buy edibles off a dude i hardly know... what if while he was makin em he had to go to the bathroom... what if he didn't wash... what if the toilet paper broke... yea, fuck that... lol.

what part of va u from?

[WolfmansBrother]

ill try me a gumball :D

[Empire]

I'm with YODA in saying

WTF?

"Howard County police said each gumball contained about one gram of marijuana. The state forensic lab has not determined if the level of THC in the gumballs is lethal, but authorities warned parents to stay on the lookout because the gumballs are dangerous if ingested by kids."

Fuck the authorities. Any authority that deserves my respect and compliance is one that doesn't distort that facts to promote scare-mongering. unlike the police

[BigBird]

i hate how the media portrays things

[Shannon]

I want these gum balls if anyone know anywhere i can find them i need to know. o_o

[WolfmansBrother]

I want these gum balls if anyone know anywhere i can find them i need to know. o_o

idk why, but when you said that i thought of the little girl in willy wonka who eats the bubblegum and turns into a blueberry and rolls away :)

[herostyle]

fuck eya I live there. Didn't get any tho.:(