"Marijuana Gumballs" in Maryland
The Drug Enforcement Administration issued a bulletin in May 2006, cautioning about the dangers of a new way to package and use marijuana. Parents should be alert to this new method of disguising dangerous levels of marijuana. The substance is packaged in Marijuana Gumballs, or "Greenades," as they are commonly called. According to the DEA bulletin, the "yellow gumballs have smiley face printed on one side and a bored hole filed with greenish-brown vegetable matter on the opposite side. "
Police in Howard County, Maryland, recently confiscated the gumballs from some high school students. The gumballs measure about an inch in diameter, contain about 1 gram of marijuana each, and purport to be filled with "pure marijuana extract. " They were wrapped in foil with the word "Grenades" printed on the label. Newsday reports that the gumballs were discovered in January. Police charged three seventeen year old students after a teacher alerted a school officer that she had seen the students with a plastic bag believed to contain drugs.