Marijuana Gumballs

from the Baltimore Examiner

At first glance, the yellow smiley face gumballs confiscated from Howard High School in Baltimore, MD seem innocent enough. But stuffed in the so-called "Greenades" was something that caught the attention of federal drug enforcement agents: marijuana.

The DEA recently released an intelligence bulletin about the gumballs.

County police said they charged three 17-year-old students at Howard High this year in the incident after a teacher alerted a school resource officer.

Howard County police turned the gumballs over to Maryland State Police, whose Forensic Sciences Division Laboratory in Pikesville determined each gumball contained approximately one gram of marijuana.

The instructions on the foil of the gumballs told users to chew for 30 minutes to one hour "before you would like receive your high and to chew for as long as possible, then swallow."