Pot-Laced Soda: Cool or Really Bad Idea?
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2011/01/26 16:00:00
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If you were worried about the effects of the heavily hyped “blackout in a can” Four Loko concoction, you’re going to be floored by Canna Cola.
Riding the tidal wave of snacks, candies and other non-traditional methods of ingesting marijuana that have popped up across the country, comes a new soda spiked with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the man behind the drink, Clay Butler, is planning to market his concoction to medical marijuana dispensaries soon, despite the fact that the teetotaler has never even tried it himself.
"I don't do drugs," said commercial artist Butler. "Never have. I never drank, never smoked. I'm a clean-living guy. I've had two beers in my whole life, and I remember them both too. No marijuana, I've never smoked a cigarette. I take an aspirin when I get a headache. That's it."
Despite his clean living, Butler is a partner in a company that is aggressively moving to market a drink that combines two of the nation’s favorite pastimes: getting high and drinking sugary soda. He may not be interested in ingesting it, but Butler loves the art of branding and he thinks he’s come up with a killer product line that should appeal to consenting adults. Among the drinks he’s brewed up: flagship Canna Cola, the Dr. Pepper-like Doc Weed, the lemon-lime Sour Diesel, the grape-flavored Grape Ape and the orange-flavored Orange Kush.
He’s not the first to offer a marijuana-laced soda, but Butler thinks his is the most slickly marketed.
"You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he said. "If someone can put every color on the rainbow on it, they do. If they can pick the most inappropriate and unreadable fonts, they will. And there's marijuana leaves on everything. It's a horrible cliché in the industry."
Though initial plans calls for it to be rolled out in Colorado first, the drink’s backers are keeping an eye on SB 258, a bill in Congress that would double the fine for anyone manufacturing a product that combines marijuana with any “candy product” or markets weed to children.
Do you think this soda pot is a good idea?
Riding the tidal wave of snacks, candies and other non-traditional methods of ingesting marijuana that have popped up across the country, comes a new soda spiked with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the man behind the drink, Clay Butler, is planning to market his concoction to medical marijuana dispensaries soon, despite the fact that the teetotaler has never even tried it himself.
"I don't do drugs," said commercial artist Butler. "Never have. I never drank, never smoked. I'm a clean-living guy. I've had two beers in my whole life, and I remember them both too. No marijuana, I've never smoked a cigarette. I take an aspirin when I get a headache. That's it."
Despite his clean living, Butler is a partner in a company that is aggressively moving to market a drink that combines two of the nation’s favorite pastimes: getting high and drinking sugary soda. He may not be interested in ingesting it, but Butler loves the art of branding and he thinks he’s come up with a killer product line that should appeal to consenting adults. Among the drinks he’s brewed up: flagship Canna Cola, the Dr. Pepper-like Doc Weed, the lemon-lime Sour Diesel, the grape-flavored Grape Ape and the orange-flavored Orange Kush.
He’s not the first to offer a marijuana-laced soda, but Butler thinks his is the most slickly marketed.
"You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he said. "If someone can put every color on the rainbow on it, they do. If they can pick the most inappropriate and unreadable fonts, they will. And there's marijuana leaves on everything. It's a horrible cliché in the industry."
Though initial plans calls for it to be rolled out in Colorado first, the drink’s backers are keeping an eye on SB 258, a bill in Congress that would double the fine for anyone manufacturing a product that combines marijuana with any “candy product” or markets weed to children.
Do you think this soda pot is a good idea?
Top Opinion
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HendrixFan 2011/01/26 19:20:49
Of course, it must be said, that like alcohol or any other substance (or behavior, for that matter), moderation is the key.
Real life responsibilities and health concerns must not be ignored for the sake of getting high with Canna Cola. Naturally, such balance can be a big problem for the many addictive personalities that seem to lurk inside many of us...
~OS
Speaking as someone who was familiar with the scent of grass (and numerous types of incense) from time gone by, many folks *enjoy* the smell of it.
Like an incense, it can bring fine images and memories to mind, even without getting one stoned, IMO.
~OS
If it';s beign sold as medication, then I think it should be sold and kept a very careful eye on!
Didn't have any effect other than refreshment really.
Of course, it was the idea of Canna Cola that has been questioned, not its ability to be created, or the process whereby it has been/will be produced, so that's outside the spectrum a bit.
Out of curiosity, Serloren, what makes you say it's a bad idea?
Not to mention that we already have piles of people who are collecting SSi because of alcoholism (which in itself is a crock of crap perpetrates on the taxpayers), do we really want to start giving piles more SSI to enable them to sit around eat Cheetos and play Wii? I don't.
the coughing is starting to annoy the parents.
if you can`t get high enough, then you can always
grind some more & put more in...
with getting stoned, you get to put aside all your feelings and not
having to worry about anything, laughing once in a while.
as with alcohol, you pretty much destroy anything in your path.
John 8:32 (King James Version)
32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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