Trichome Or Treat? Parents Urged To Check Candy For Marijuana Edibles This Halloween

[yuiyoshida]

THIS IS Bullshit, Edibles are EXPENSIVE, WHO would give away their own Medical Cannabis??

[emulatorloo]

1. Lol

You have a very good point!

Probably a Sinclair station scaremongering for ratings again

[PoliticAverse]

2. Who eats unbranded halloween items from strangers now anyway? n/t

[yuiyoshida]

3. I bought one Cannabis Chocolate chip cookie...it cost me 6 dollars...

At that price you can't afford to give it away to kids!! Not even as a joke.

[SergeStorms]

4. The usual....

Halloween "everybody is trying to kill your kid" bullshit. Razor blades just not scary enough anymore? Parents know enough to NEVER allow their children to eat any home-baked, non-manufactured, unwrapped "treats". Why do TV stations insist on going through this crap every year? Sensationalist bullshit to drive up web traffic to their site. CBSLA, huh? .........that figures.

[yuiyoshida]

6. You know the last time someone died of Cannabis over dose???

Never...

[SergeStorms]

15. That's what I was going to say!

I've gotten really, REALLY stoned before, and 'the fear' would set in for a little while, but then I'd usually go to sleep.

I don't condone giving children pot though. At least give them a chance to develop normally. This Halloween 'scare' stuff hits the news every year. Much ado about nothing, usually.

[yuiyoshida]

20. Its a their way of trying to stiffle Marijuana use...

They think the medical Marijuana users will simple think its good fun to pass it on to kids, but they are stupid, because that Candy costs a lot of money. As I said in another thread, I once purchased a cannabis cookie and it cost me 7 dollars. There is no way, anyone would buy a lot of those cookies and give them out as Halloween gifts, unless of course they were sick , rich Republicans...

[jmowreader]

5. Even the weed dealers are calling bullshit on this one

[yuiyoshida]

7. I think this is a Republican scare tactic ...

No one has died of an overdose of Cannabis.

[jmowreader]

9. Oh come on, Yui...didn't you see Reefer Madness?

Marijuana makes you play piano really fast...

gives you crazy eyes...

makes you play tennis badly...

I gotta tell ya, that shit's bad for you. Don't you read Ann Landers?

And of course, the Evil Weed Marijuana leads directly to the Even More Evil Cocaine...

and More Cocaine...

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[yuiyoshida]

10. Tommy Chong is a hero of mine...

For Juju too! (so is Cheech)

[SergeStorms]

16. Probably from....

the desk of Jeff Sessions. He's so anti-marijuana I think he must have been scared by giant joint when he was a child.

[yuiyoshida]

21. Yet I bet one could find him in a bar some where

drinking southern comfort...go figure.

[lunamagica]

8. Tonight I saw a report that "hundreds" of children have ended up on emergency

rooms due to pot (overdose? or what?) The reporter and those she interviewed were breathless with panic over this.

[jmowreader]

11. I can kinda see why

Pot won't hurt you, but if you eat too much of it at one sitting you will NOT be a happy camper!

[yuiyoshida]

13. Where did this come from??? FOX NEWS?

Its a FACT, no one has died from Cannabis aka Marijuana aka grass aka weed aka ganja....

[bathroommonkey76]

12. Cops around here are more worried about bath salts. lol n/t

[yuiyoshida]

14. and with good reason

Which is why so many states have passed Medical Marijuana and some Recreational Marijuana referendums

[SergeStorms]

17. Which is what....

the marijuana used by those who "had to go to the emergency room" might have been laced with. Back in the 80s someone passed a joint to me that had some PCP in it, and that freaked me out for a while. I got stinking drunk and that was the end of that. I don't smoke or drink at all anymore. I've become this really boring, sober............. citizen!

[bathroommonkey76]

18. Bath salts had a brief shelf life here a few years ago

Cops are still worried about some nutty person slipping them into a kid's Halloween candy. My friends and I tried them a couple of times- after we smoked them we hallucinated for about 20 minutes- it was a very bad high. A couple of years later they were outlawed here and I think most of the country has made them illegal.

Do you remember Miami cannibal attack? The guy who ate the victim was on bathsalts. lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack

Back in the 90s I smoked a joint that was laced with PCP- worst experience of my life. lol I stopped smoking pot for a few years. During that same decade I watched a friend lose his mind on acid. Everyone was sitting around his "Fonzie Happy Days" room above his parent's garage. He decided to pull out his penis and start masturbating in front of 6 guys. Now I was sober as a veteran of AA- I tried to talk him down from the ledge- it took around 20 minutes before he put his penis back into his pants. Everything after that was a bit hazy - I do recall him saying "I'm going next door to rape my neighbor." My friends who were there took that remark as his dark humor- 30-40 minutes passed and one of my friends noticed these lights from the window. I walked over to peek through the blinds and noticed several cop cars near this bridge at the country club entrance. I raced down the street and asked the cops what was going on. When I got to the scene I saw my friend buck ass naked on the ground with three cops over him- all three guns were drawn at my naked friend in the ditch. My friend called out my name and said "What did I do?" The cops went on to explain to me that my friend stripped naked in his yard and ran to his neighbor's house- he rang the doorbell. An older woman answered and he forced himself into the door and walked into their living room turned on the TV and reclined back in their recliner. The woman yelled for help and her husband came into this madness. That's when my friend took off out of the house and ran down the country club road. I stopped all drugs and alcohol for a few years after this happened.


Here's a little more information about bathsalts from an NC lawyer's website:

On behalf of Roberts Law Group, PLLC posted in Drug Crimes on Wednesday, August 22, 2012.


The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, signed into law in July, added 15 synthetic cannabinoids - synthetic marijuana or 'Spice" - and 11 synthetic cathinones - 'bath salts' - to the list of federal Schedule I Controlled Substances. Existing Schedule I Controlled Substances include marijuana, LSD, peyote and ecstasy. The use, possession or distribution of these controlled substances can result in federal drug charges.

A conviction on a federal drug charge can have serious consequences, including lengthy prison terms and fines. Mandatory minimum sentences may also apply, dictating the number of months that a person must be sentenced to if convicted of federal drug charges.
Synthetic cannabinoids are illegal drugs manufactured to mimic the active ingredient in marijuana, THC and have street names such as K2, Spice, Kush or Genie. Synthetic or substituted cathinones are typically called bath salts and are similar in effect to amphetamines.

North Carolina already outlawed the use, possession and distribution of synthetic marijuana, synthetic incense and bath salts in 2011. Similar to the federal law, North Carolina also designated the drugs as Schedule I Controlled Substances.

Selling, delivering or manufacturing between 150 to 750 grams of synthetic marijuana is a felony drug offense in North Carolina. A conviction can carry a prison sentence between 70 to 84 months along with a $5,000 minimum fine.

New forms of synthetic drugs are already replacing the outlawed versions. North Carolina's Alcohol Liquor Enforcement (ALE) agents are using state bans on inhaling toxic vapors to arrest and charge individuals caught with otherwise legal versions of new synthetic drugs.
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, "Synthetic Drug Threats"

[SergeStorms]

19. Sounds like your friend....

got some really bad acid. I was a flower child. Back in the 60s and 70s there was the occasional batch of bad acid around, but nothing like your friend experienced. For the most part the acid was pure and the trips were amazing. Better still were the Psilocybin 'shrooms and Peyote buttons. I always prefered nature's trips over the synthetic variety.

The bath salt craze seemed very risky to me. The only experience I had with them was watching youtube videos, and the aforementioned news reports about the cannibal man and all that. That just seemed way too risky for my tastes. I can't believe people would have rather taken them, than to find some of nature's good old standbys.

Those days are far behind me. I'm content to look back and think about the places my body and mind went, and they weren't always in the same place at the same time, if you get my drift. I really DO get high on life now. Peace.

[malthaussen]

22. Better than looking for razor blades in apples... n/t