# Bride and caterer arrested for secretly putting cannabis in the food at the wedding reception {2022-04-22} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293 "2022-04-22T23:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/61 "2022-04-23T23:09:02Z")
Or, given that this conversation happened at the reception, not after an investigation ‘Wait, what are you talking about?’ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/62 "2022-04-23T23:17:27Z")
Especially if he’d eaten some of the food and was himself unknowingly stoned, which would make him even more likely to stand there gobsmacked and unable to quickly process the situation. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/63 "2022-04-23T23:24:53Z")
We do know there’s body cam footage of the cops at the party, right, where you can watch the cop ask the bride and groom about the pot? I can’t pull it up this second but you can find it online if it hasn’t already been linked to in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/64 "2022-04-23T23:26:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I hope her scummy neighbor was arrested! No, because smoking pot is legal in Canada and because she was on “their” porch, not her own porch right next door. The best that could be done was to kick them out. The landlord was happy to oblige. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/65 "2022-04-23T23:32:45Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > It must be an old law, because $500 and five years in prison are not close to comparable. In The Andromeda Strain, written in 1969, the penalty form reading the Wildfire documents in “Twenty years in prison and $20000 fine.” Now twenty years is still twenty years, but inflation has changed the fines. I’m like “$20K, hmm. You need a check, or is cash fine?” ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/66 "2022-04-24T00:51:46Z")
I suppose the only saving grace is that none of the articles I’ve seen mention children being affected so hopefully it was a child free event. And also I hope that all the guests sue them into oblivion. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/67 "2022-04-24T01:21:53Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I am finding it interesting that the first posters are potheads with torches and pitchforks. Perhaps that’s because we are the ones with lighters? Maybe it’s because they (maybe) fought for so long to get it decriminalized and destigmatized, that stuff like this can cause serious backlash from the “Marijuana=Bad” crowd. You can (quite correctly) point out that it’s an isolated incident, and not at all casually representative of actual facts and reality, but when someone has a hate on for who you are and what you do, any bad actor or incident becomes the club with which they beat you over the head to vindicate their position. > [@Acsenray](#): > > I think a lot of monetary penalties ought to be amended such that a penalty is calculated as a percentage of your income, with the percentage progressively increasing as income increases. And for people with a higher level of assets, it should be calculated as a percentage of total wealth. And when someone has actually profited as a result, then 100 percent of the fruits of the trespass should be seized. I’ll sign the petition; put it on a ballot, and I’ll vote for it. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I wonder when the groom found out. Because the affidavit says, > > > Deputy Schwarzman told both Andrew Svoboda and Danya Shea Svoboda Seminole County Fire Rescue and the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office were on scene. Deputy Donald Schwarzman asked Andrew Svoboda and Danya Shea Svoboda if they had consented to, or request, any of the food to contain cannabis products. Upon asking that question, Andrew Svoboda stared at Deputy Donald Schwarzman with a blank expression for a few moments before stuttering through a “no”. > > The blank expression and the pause before replying tells me that he knew. I’m less sure of that; I’ve had out-of-context questions that, initially, made as much sense as you asking, “Did you in fact stick a banana up your nose, and blow bubbles out of your butt?” You’d get a few seconds of blank stare from me, until my brain processed and switched gears. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/68 "2022-04-24T01:44:27Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The blank expression and the pause before replying tells me that he knew. Or maybe he found the question so unexpected and bizarre that it took him a moment to process what he’d heard, especially if he’d gotten any of the tampered food/drink and might well have been high himself. (And I got thoroughly ninja-ed by multiple posters.) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/69 "2022-04-24T02:00:35Z")
Absolutely appalling behavior. But as someone who loves edibles, I’ve always wondered how the heck people eat them unknowingly. Bc when I eat an edible it takes like ass. No matter how expertly prepared the edible was made. (Of course non of that excuses what these assholes did) ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/70 "2022-04-24T02:19:47Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Bc when I eat an edible it takes like ass. No matter how expertly prepared the edible was made. I don’t use cannabis myself, so would not necessarily identify an odd taste in food as being such, I’d just think the cook’s abilities left something to be desired. Guests might well not have known what that taste meant. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/71 "2022-04-24T02:33:11Z")
One short question by a furriner, I’m not that well versed in US weed lingo: what in the context of cannabis are “shakes”? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/72 "2022-04-24T02:36:19Z")
It’s just the stuff at the bottom of the bag. Looks like something you would put in a spice shaker. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/73 "2022-04-24T02:36:58Z")
Ah, got it. We call this stuff “Brösel”. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/74 "2022-04-24T03:09:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > In The Andromeda Strain, written in 1969, the penalty form reading the Wildfire documents in “Twenty years in prison and $20000 fine.” Now twenty years is still twenty years, but inflation has changed the fines. I’m like “$20K, hmm. You need a check, or is cash fine?” Are you sure about that? Most sources say that the U.S. median individual income (as opposed to the average household income, which gets most of the media coverage) is about $40k. I don’t think that very many people would be able to fork over a third or more of their annual income in one payment. Even a vastly smaller amount would cause considerable difficulty for many people. > **[Nearly 40% of Americans can't cover a surprise $400 expense](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-40-of-americans-cant-cover-a-surprise-400-expense/)** > > Although the U.S. economic tide continues to rise, Fed data show that millions of Americans are barely treading water ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/75 "2022-04-24T03:32:38Z")
Do you think a $20k fine is comparable to 20 years in prison, though? How about a $500 fine vs. five years in prison? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/76 "2022-04-24T04:42:19Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Do you think a $20k fine is comparable to 20 years in prison, though? > > How about a $500 fine vs. five years in prison? It’s totally unfair. If five hundred dollars is the equivalent of five years, then two thousand dollars should be the equivalent of twenty years not twenty thousand dollars. This is what happens when Florida bans math books. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/77 "2022-04-24T09:46:49Z")
I agree with the crowd in how abominable this is, but wanted to chime in about you happy pot smokers. The handful of times in my life that I have tried it, I became freakishly paranoid. The last time was four years ago in Amsterdam and I got so blasted that I literally, the real meaning of literally, thought I had died and was in Hell. Random people were demons tormenting me. Every word people said was about how to torture me. I see movies where people are happy and goofy; not me. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/78 "2022-04-24T09:54:23Z")
And to follow up, it was wearing off just a bit when I got on the plane from Amsterdam back to Paris. They put my wife in a different part of the plane and sat me next to some 20-something beautiful young lady and I just knew/was afraid that I was going to hit on her. The whole thing went through my mind: I’m married/this girl doesn’t want me hitting on her/I really don’t want to hit on her, but I just knew that I would say something offensive and sexual. I had to stuff the Skymall magazine in my mouth to ensure that I wouldn’t say anything. Everyone looked at me, but I didn’t care; would rather have looks about having Skymall stuffed in my mouth than telling the young girl next to me that she had nice tits and get booted off of the flight. Short version: that shit is terrible to me. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/79 "2022-04-24T12:50:03Z")
Reality checking in: what happens if you were at that reception and as a result 1. Fail a drug test at work? 2. Drive home and get caught for a DUI? ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293/80 "2022-04-24T16:54:56Z")
Homemade edibles, or commercial? Homemade are often bad, yeah, but the edibles available commercially in Canada are never terrible, and most taste just a little bit off. I could easily see someone eating them by accident if it weren’t for all the warning labels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293.md?page=5)