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Newsbrief: Marijuana Candy Bars Appear in Bay Area
DRCNet | 6/25/04


Eating these munchies could give you the munchies. A DEA intelligence report in the agency's Microgram Bulletin is alerting the feds to be on the lookout for candy bars containing marijuana. Packaged to resemble Snickers and Butterfingers candy bars, "Stoners" and "Buddafingers" were found to contain 21.6 and 29.8 milligrams respectively of THC, enough to have a significant impact.


Both bars were apparently manufactured by a mysterious concern called "Tainted Truffle," whose name or variant appears on both bars. "An Internet search lists 'Tainted Truffle' (a subtitle on the 'Stoners' candy bar) as a supporting organization for a California based marijuana legalization lobbying group, with no further information," the DEA reported. DRCNet could find no such web link. The Microgram Bulletin noted that several of its readers had inquired as to the origin of the candy bars, and thoughtfully provided an e-mail address for anyone who wanted to provide such information.

The "Buddafingers" wrapper tantalizingly describes the contents: "TaiNTed/Buddafinga/diggety, dankity, peanut-buttery!" According to the sole consumer report found via a Google search, the "Stoners" bar was effective, but left something to be desired in the taste department. "This one was called "STONERS" (SNICKERS). It had 'Ganja Caramel,"' reported "420Rican," an anonymous poster on a Howard Stern fan site who reported buying one for $9 in a San Francisco cannabis cafe. "It also tasted like ****, except for the chocolate. It had me asleep in about 30 min."

DEA got wind of the cannabis candy after a defense attorney for a merchant marine who had flunked a drug test submitted the bars to a Coast Guard lab for testing. But with the packages bearing a marijuana leaf and the warning, "For Medicinal Use Only," the Microgram Bulletin could not help but wonder "why anyone would attempt to present them as an explanation for 'unknowingly' ingesting THC."

According to DEA, a "Stoners" bar also showed up earlier this year in western Oklahoma, seized by US Postal Inspectors keeping an eye on a meth trafficker. The package it came in was postmarked Southern California.

The Microgram Bulletin also has lots of other cool stuff. Check out the April issue (the latest posted) at:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/fo...04/mg0404.html

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TiKiTiKi

Lol thats so funny. Those kind of candies would be sooo sick at a party. Just take off the wrapper and pass that **** around ;D People wouldnt even know that they just ate reefer!

UnregStoner

I think I found their 'connection'. I used Dogpile, so as to hit multiple search engines, and sure enough, I find this: http://www.green-aid.com/oct18party.htm. Interestingly, there were more references to "Tainted Truffle" on DEA-run websites than non-DEA sites, all of them presumably referencing the above link.

StewScum

Better not lay a finger on my Buddafinger!

No really..

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Mamabudz

Lawdy lawd...we better save ourselves...they poisonin' the Chillun wid da DEVILS CANDY !

(now THAT was sarcasm)


These candies have been around for QUITE some time.

And ... they left out my personal favorite, REEFERS peanut butter cups.

Now candy is a great way to get a patient to take their medicine. Gay Community nation-wide has been producing these since the early 90's.

Since butter cream, or oil-based creams are in most candy recipes -- nougats, creamy centers, etc are all oil based, making Cannabis candy is really quite easy, and fun.

ALL the cannabinoids (chemicals in marijuana) -- as opposed to only THC -- in the plant work synergistically (all of it's parts work together to work best) go into canna-oils and buters. Oral mediction such as Marinol contain only one chemical -- an analogous (fake) version of syntesized (man made) THC molecule suspended in an oil (sesame seed oil -- usually rancid by the time it reaches the patient from my taste tests -- blech!)

And that is why Cannabis Candies were created...

And yes, they are fun at parties, you can make your own (check out Recipes in Methods of Use section for Reefer's Cups)

Note:
1) Eating cannabis is different than smoking -- only eat a small amount -- too much will put you to sleep or make you throw up -- neither of which is fun
2) Cannabis candy can cause extreme munchies --- be sure to make extra
batches of PLAIN candy for munching...
3) NEVER EVER slip a cannabis product to someone without their knowledge -- IT IS WRONG, CRUEL, and MORALLY CRIMINAL

 

Sombie

the dea is so far behind, ive known about this for atleast a year.