Drug Bust Finds Marijuana-Laced Candy

Eleven people were arrested and over $350,000 was seized in Southern California during drug raids last week.
Drug Bust Finds Marijuana-Laced Candy
A box of 'Blitz' brand candy bars laced with marijuana and hashish oil seized during a recent raid. (Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)
10/11/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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A box of 'Blitz' brand candy bars laced with marijuana and hashish oil seized during a recent raid. (Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)
Eleven people were arrested and over $350,000 was seized in Southern California during drug raids last week. Also seized were batches of candy laced with marijuana.

Authorities in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department raided 16 locations in Southern California on Thursday including five medical marijuana clinics, two processing sites, a grow site, seven residences, and a sailboat in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties.

Several lollipops laced with hashish oil were seized at the sites as well as boxes of Blitz brand candy bars. Agents have also seized 35 marijuana plants and 78 pounds of processed marijuana.

Authorities said in a statement that they found “cannabis-laced cereal similar to Froot Loops or Apple Jacks” at the sites.

Cookies, marshmallows, pies, ice cream, energy drinks, peanut butter, jelly, and cereal, barbeque sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels, and other “enhanced” snacks intended for medical users of the drug were also produced at the sites.

According to authorities, the marijuana-laced food products were being produced and sold in Southern California and several other states.

Snacks laced with marijuana are often more potent and longer lasting.

The estimated value of all the substances is $350,000. Also seized were $20,000 in cash, six vehicles, and hydroponic growing equipment and chemicals.