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
Medical-Marijuana-MLM.com
I think as with any "mind altering" substance, it must be adult only and there must be penalties for abusing or endangering others, but the emphasis has to be on viewing this as a HEALTH issue and not a criminal one (unless you otherwise break the law! ;-)
As someone who has indulged in the loco weed to the maximum extent I could afford, the idea that this is the same as "Four loco" is just not the case! There has never been a recorded death due to smoking/ingesting pot. Can you even begin to utter the same words for Alcohol or Caffeinated coffee? Hell NO!
We descendants of East African Chimps have evolved and we have the brain power to decide that each adult has some right to do as he/she wishes (again within the constraints of the law ;-)
I gave up smoking 30 years ago. I gave up every type of smoking and I'm getting tired of eating brownies all the time. Bring on the soda.
We have a jackpot!
I know what I'm getting asap!
can you do that with a soda?
burp.!
;-)
If you want to go out an drink it, fine. But it should be treated like alcohol or something.