Police charge man after South Dakota seniors unwittingly eat pot brownies

[left-of-center2012]

A group of seniors inadvertently ate a batch of cannabis brownies brought by a 73-year-old woman who didn’t know that her adult son had baked them with THC butter. The incident happened last Tuesday in Tabor, a town with a population of 423 people. Police responded to several calls of a “possible poisoning” and found that all the patients had been playing cards at the Tabor Community Center and were “under the influence.”

Cops arrested Michael Koranda, 43, after he reportedly told them he had cooked the illicit goods with half a pound of THC butter he bought in Colorado, where recreational cannabis is legal.Michael Koranda’s mother reportedly took the brownies he baked after he went to bed.

After Michael Koranda went to bed and “his mother unknowingly took the brownies to the card game where several people ate them,” the affidavit read. There was no word on any injuries. He was charged with possession of a controlled drug or substance, which is punishable to 5 years in prison, according to the report.

Cannabis edibles can have a significantly stronger effect on users than smokable marijuana. Manufacturers warn that it is easy to accidentally ingest a paralyzing amount by overconsuming the tasty treats. South Dakota voters approved an amendment to legalize recreational cannabis in November, but that referendum was struck down by the state’s high court.

Cannabis remains illegal on the federal level, where it is classified as a Schedule I drug.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/south-dakota-seniors-unwittingly-eat-pot-brownies-cops-charge-michael-koranda/

[Emile]

1. 5 years, egads the Jan 6 traitors are getting lesser sentences.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. +1

[walkingman]

2. We seem to have a weird sense of accountability in America. Why

would anyone think this is a prison offence? Reminds me of the late 60's.

[Tickle]

3. oh yeah he's violent

put him away!

I don't understand. lately up is down and down is up. Hopefully he got out with no bail and his case gets dismissed

[left-of-center2012]

4. Federally it is a schedule 1 drug

Some continue to say it is a gateway drug to heroin and cocaine.

I smoked my share back in the 60s and 70s and it never caused me to try heroin.
Snorted Coke a time or two but it never did anything for me.

Back in my "hippie daze".

[LiberatedUSA]

5. Over two decades a ago...

…I snorted one line and did one “numby” (a bit on the gums) while visiting a friend I had not seen in years. I never did it again. Not because I didn’t like what it did, but because it just felt a bridge too far. If “you’ve gone over the line” was a physical feeling, that was what I felt.

Weed? No problem.

Anything else? Nope.

Double that for things that make you see things that are not there.

[Submariner]

6. This guy should have started a war based on a WMD LIE and killed

hundreds of thousands, before doing something stupid like baking cannabis brownies.

That draft dodging lying war starter still goes float boating the Snake River for salmon with his daughter, while brownie dummy is going to prison for THC butter poisoning.

Did the cops bust the grannies for waging nickel-dime bets and corrupting other seniors to gamble?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Let's go to the old folks home.

[Calculating]

8. Such a joke

Prison over this? Legalize the stuff already. So much for the Republican lie that nobody goes to prison and weed

[nuxvomica]

10. 1. His mom is the real criminal for stealing the brownies

Did he say she could take the brownies to the card game?

2. Who eats brownies made with "green butter" without realizing it? I made some for my dad when he was dying of cancer and he hated them because they weren't chocolatey enough. The flavor is very off-putting. Were her card-playing friends just being polite by eating them?