Pot Tarts, Cap'n Chronic, and...

[ITR_champion]

This just infrom the government’s endless efforts to protect us from the terror of being allowed to make choices for ourselves. It concerns Republican lawmakers in Colorado attempting to ban edibles including pot for medical marijuana patients.

The Reefer Madness propaganda campaign based on the age-old “Save the Children” plea began with a letter from the Colorado Drug Investigators Association that had been given to Committee members with photographs of “Pot Tarts” and “Cap’n Chronic Cereal”, claiming that these were medical marijuana infused products that were showing up on Colorado school grounds and being marketed to children. However the “Pot Tarts” photograph in the letter came from a DEA bust in California in 1986, and the “Cap’n Chronic Cereal” photograph was only a T-shirt design and was never documented to be a real product by anyone.

Not to be deterred by the facts, Rep. Acree continued the propaganda war and began the hearing by displaying boxes of these alleged “marijuana-infused products” that had been found on school yards in Colorado. However, upon closer inspection, it was determined that Rep. Acree had purchased several random food products at Target that morning and was parading them in front of the committee as if they were medical marijuana-infused products themselves.

During a full hour and a half of testimony from law enforcement, no one could produce an actual medicated “Pot Tart” or any medicated “Cap’n Chronic Cereal.” The North Metro Drug Task Force, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Colorado District Attorney’s Council, the County Sheriffs of Colorado, and the state Attorney General’s office all testified about how medical marijuana was being marketed to and falling into the hands of children in Colorado school yards, but not one of these agencies could produce the actual menacing product itself.

Instead, Rep. Acree provided non-medicated products purchased from Target as hearing props, including Cap’n Crunch cereal made by Quaker Oats, Sparkling Lime Soda made by Izze of Boulder, Colorado, Crispy Marshmallow Bites made by Archer Farms (a Target brand), and Soakers Fruit Snacks made by Market Pantry (another Target brand).

Lots more could be said about the inherent dishonesty that has become the norm in the government’s campaign against medical marijuana, the lack of accountability, and the way that the press always plays along with them. That’s not what I’m interested in here, though. What I want to know is what other common products could have their names slightly adjusted and be added to this list?

[ZipperJJ]

I don’t have any suggestions but I think we should start a campaign to teach kids not to consume anything “found in a schoolyard”. WTF?

[Hypno-Toad]

There’s Mello Yello or any brand of Corned Beef Hash which don’t even have to be changed.

Mountain Doob.

Twinklies.

Aunt J-mima.

Count Toke-ula.

I’ll post more if I can think straight.

[shiftless]

Made up scare tactics has been the way authorities have tried to educate us all about drugs since the beginning of time (meaning, since I was in middle school). This is more of the same. I learned all kinds of outlandish facts about drugs in middle/high school PE class. So many were either obviously false or later turned out to be false that I just can’t believe anything I hear from that direction anymore. Did you know that if you use pot, even a little, you can step in front of a car or off the top of a building because you can’t judge time and distance anymore? Such an amazing claim I had to test it for myself.

I have no experience with the hard stuff and little experience with the soft stuff and I am really reluctant to consider legalizing most drugs, maybe because I don’t know. But this constant flood of misinformation from our law makers and enforcers makes me wonder if there is actually a threat at all. The Colorado lawmakers would better serve their constituents by providing actual facts and solving real problems.

[Hypno-Toad]

Tic Tokes

J-Rations

Spleef Jerky

[aruvqan]

One dispensary carries:
* Bhang Chocolates
* Brownies
* Buddies’ Peanut Butter Pucks
* Butter Bros Caramels
* Butter Bros Streusels
* Butter Bros vegan C Chip
* Canna Stroop Waffle
* CannaButter
* Chronic Tonic
* Cupcakes
* Ganja Glycerin
* Gold Caps
* granola
* Honey’s Apple Pie
* Honey’s Hash Brownies
* Honeys C Chip
* Honeys Choc. caramel
* Honeys Hash Tootsie Roll
* Honeys PBJ
* Honeys Smores
* Honeys Snickers
* Hybrid PB Cookies
* Incredible Edible Teas
* Jolly Lolly Lollipops
* Large Sprays
* Lozenges
* Medibles Krispy Treats
* Mo Better Cookies
* muffins
* Oatmeal Raisin cookies
* Small Sprays
* Tasteez rice krispy treats

Given that cannabis was once in the US Dispenatory [sic] and in common use for a whole list of issues to say it has no medical use is a bit silly. Heck, they just recently found a grave of a shaman with a kilo of weed in it in the desert in China with the caucasians that were wandering east instead of west. Herodotus mentioned that the sycthians used it in steam tents theraputicaly. It was used in chinese traditional medicine. I have a list of some 400-500 or so links to scientific studies on all sorts of medical problems. I can’t wait until the ;old guard’ drop dead and we can get medical marijuana legalized because mrAru can’t find a job in Holland, and we can’t afford to move there without one.

[Debon_Err]

For Breakfast:
Chai THC
Mesquite Bakin (or smoked)
Toasted waffles

[detop]

@shiftless

Made up scare tactics has been the way authorities have tried to educate us all about drugs since the beginning of time (meaning, since I was in middle school). This is more of the same. I learned all kinds of outlandish facts about drugs in middle/high school PE class. So many were either obviously false or later turned out to be false that I just can’t believe anything I hear from that direction anymore. Did you know that if you use pot, even a little, you can step in front of a car or off the top of a building because you can’t judge time and distance anymore? Such an amazing claim I had to test it for myself.

You were in middle school in the 30s ? Because that’s when Harry Anslinger unleashed the fear (think Reefer Madness type of attitude towards pot). We’ve been lied about this stuff right from the start. But it was OK then, only African-American were using the stuff (riiiight !).

[Ogre]

Instead, Rep. Acree provided non-medicated products purchased from Target as hearing props, including Cap’n Crunch cereal made by Quaker Oats, Sparkling Lime Soda made by Izze of Boulder, Colorado, Crispy Marshmallow Bites made by Archer Farms (a Target brand), and Soakers Fruit Snacks made by Market Pantry (another Target brand).

Oh, it would be so beautiful if he were sued by these companies for, I dunno, defamation?

[Derleth]

@detop

You were in middle school in the 30s ? Because that’s when Harry Anslinger unleashed the fear (think Reefer Madness type of attitude towards pot). We’ve been lied about this stuff right from the start. But it was OK then, only African-American were using the stuff (riiiight !).

It was blacks and Mexicans using pot and the Chinese smoking that horrible devil opium.

In addition, the horrible Germans drank beer, which meant they disregarded temperance and Sunday closing laws and harassed good, churchgoing, whiskey-drinking Americans on Sundays.

Temperance and Sunday closing laws touched a similarly raw nerve, attacking fundamental issues of German sociability and way of life. Initially framed as a conflict between Anglo-American whiskey drinking and German beer culture, the liquor issue became a proxy for deeper ethnic divisions. Germans who allegedly wandered through the streets on Sundays, shouting, singing, and intimidating churchgoers and other pious citizens, were a thorn in the flesh of temperance advocates and church officials. German working men and women, who could meet with friends and fellow workers only on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays for leisure and pleasure, regarded the Sunday closing laws as an attack on their culturally specific habits and an infringement on their personal liberties and constitutional rights. For these working-class German Americans, Sunday closing merged class and ethnic interests more than any other issue.