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Bridgeburner
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Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland
#7460547 - 09/27/07 02:20 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21015969/
OAKLAND, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration agents have shut down a factory that produced marijuana-laced candy and other food products in Oakland, Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Pena said Thursday. Agents served multiple search warrants at "Tainted Incorporated" on Wednesday.
The company distributes its candies to cannabis clubs throughout the Bay Area, Southern California, Seattle, Vancouver, and Amsterdam markets, Pena said.
Some of the marijuana-laced products seized include chocolate candy bars in multiple flavors, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, jelly, BBQ sauce, chocolate syrup, flavored energy drinks, granola bars, moon pies, brownies, chocolate covered pretzels and ?rice krispy? treats, according to DEA public information officer Casey McEnry.
?Tainting candy and other products with marijuana is not sweet, it is criminal. These items could have harmful effects on a user, especially the unsuspecting ones,? said Pe?a.
The DEA operation seized hundreds of the products, approximately 460 marijuana plants, one handgun, an unknown amount of U.S. currency, and a 2005 GMC truck.
?Manufacturing, distributing and possessing marijuana-laced products is in clear violation of federal law. We will continue to shut down these production lines, one marijuana-candy factory at a time,? Pena said.
Product order forms seized from a cannabis club operating in Southern California show Tainted products were offered from $2.50 to $20.00 for each item, depending on the type and strength of marijuana product ordered, McEnry said.
Agents conducted several searches.
They combed the factory where the products were manufactured on the 900 block of 61st Street in Oakland.
They searched the large indoor operation where the plants were grown on the 300 block of 40th Street.
Agents also searched the Oakland residence of the alleged owner of the business, Michael Martin, 33, of El Sobrante, and the residences of several of his associates.
The investigation started about two years ago when the DEA office in Oakland received information that Martin had started the business, McEnry said.
Tainted Inc. began as a small operation that originally cooked marijuana leaves in butter and made chocolate truffles, McEnry said.
The company ordered almost four tons of chocolate over the last two years that might have been used in making the marijuana-laced products, McEnry said. Officers arrested Jessica Sanders, 30, of San Leandro, Michael Anderson, 42, of Oakland, and Diallo McLinn, 35, of Oakland, in connection with the operation for possible conspiracy to manufacture or distribute controlled substances.
Sanders has been identified as a manager while Anderson and McLinn have been identified as couriers, according to McEnry. Martin is currently a federal fugitive in the investigation, McEnry said.
Sanders, Anderson and McLinn were scheduled for their first appearance in an Oakland federal court Thursday.
The maximum penalty for the violation would be 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
The Oakland and Concord police departments helped in the investigation, McEnry said.
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dirtworshipper
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7460707 - 09/27/07 02:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Those candies sounds fucking delicious
 but..

Don't they know there are alkaloids in chocolate too?

We all know piggies can't live without their chocolate though
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: dirtworshipper]
#7460794 - 09/27/07 03:14 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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i just got some last week too wa gonna get more too bad.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: KillrX]
#7460797 - 09/27/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Since so many marijuanna shit happening in the news latley, one can only wonder why i can still get dank stuff on a constant basis?
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: Alion]
#7461478 - 09/27/07 06:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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There's cannabis clubs in Seattle??? Where the fuck are these at and why haven't I heard of these???
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: StrandedVoyager]
#7486143 - 10/04/07 07:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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UPDATE
Pot Candy Maker Out On $300,000 Bail
http://www.ktvu.com/news/14270940/detail.html
SAN FRANCISCO -- The founder of an Oakland food factory that laces everything from cookies to barbecue sauce with marijuana surrendered Thursday to face a federal drug charge.
Michael Martin, 33, was freed on $300,000 bond.
Federal drug agents last week raided Tainted Inc. in Oakland and arrested three of Martin's employees on drug charges for allegedly producing such marijuana-laced products as honey, soda and other snacks.
Martin's employees were arrested during the raids, but federal officials couldn't find Martin and considered him a fugitive. Martin said he was on vacation and arranged to turn himself in once he heard of the raids, according to his supporters. Authorities said they seized several laced products during the raids.
Martin's attorney Sara Zalkin didn't return a telephone call.
Martin's supporters with the nonprofit Safe Access Now organization said he was making the products for medical marijuana clubs in California.
State law has legalized marijuana use to treat medical conditions, but federal law bans the plant's use for all purposes. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal law trumps state law when it comes to medical marijuana.
According to the search warrants, Tainted Inc.'s products first came to the attention of investigators in April 2004 when an internal Drug Enforcement Administration publication reported that agents had recently seized marijuana-laced candy bars called Buddafingas and Stoners that were wrapped in packages mimicking the popular brands Butterfingers and Snickers. The article put out a call for the identity of the laced candies' maker.
In March 2005, according to a court document filed by DEA agent William Armstrong, an anonymous e-mail to the DEA fingered Martin's Tainted Inc. as the candies' source. The DEA launched its investigation two months later and employed a paid informant who knew Martin to help, according to the document.
The informant bought $1,260 worth of Tainted products, including Stoner bars priced at $4 each, Mr. Greenbud bars at $8 each and $20 jars of laced peanut butter, according to the document.
The DEA also said that Tainted Inc. has purchased close to four tons of chocolate for about $14,600 from Guittard Chocolate Co. in the last two years.
The three others charged along with Martin are Jessica Sanders, Michael Anderson, and Diallo McLinn. All are free
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: StrandedVoyager]
#7487257 - 10/05/07 02:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn those edibles were so bomb. Gonna miss pickin those up.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8883957 - 09/05/08 07:41 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pot-candy boss sentenced on federal drug charges September 5, 2008 - sfgate.com
The owner of an Oakland factory that produced marijuana candy with names like Buddafinga and Mr. Greenbud has been sentenced to a year in a halfway house and a year of home detention for conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
Michael Martin, 33, of El Sobrante was also sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland.
Martin is the owner of Tainted Inc., which started as a boutique business that made chocolate truffles and grew into a large marijuana-candy maker that bought chocolate by the ton, authorities said.
Tainted Inc. employee Jessica Sanders was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation for illegally using a phone to distribute marijuana, a felony. Two other employees, Michael Anderson and Diallo McLinn - the son of longtime Berkeley activist Osha Neumann - were each sentenced in April to two years' probation on a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.
Authorities said Tainted made candies with names that played off popular legal treats: Buddafinga, Mr. Greenbud, Stoners. The business also made pot-laced items such as cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, granola bars and barbecue sauce, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Martin's attorneys, Sara Zalkin and J. Tony Serra, wrote in court papers that their client had been manufacturing the candy as a medicinal marijuana product. Martin, they said, "was not motivated by profit" and now has a "negative net worth of $147,000."
In a sentencing memorandum, however, Assistant U.S. Attorney Keslie Stewart wrote that Martin "was not growing marijuana solely for his own use or for the use of a sick family member. He was running a profitable business and supporting himself and his family with the proceeds of marijuana sales."
Martin said he joined the medical marijuana movement after seeing his father die painfully of prostate cancer in 2002 after a 10-year battle. His father refused to use marijuana because of a federal ban on all types of the drug, Martin said.
Martin said he uses medical marijuana to ease pain after a fall left him with seven screws and a steel plate in his left heel. He said he also has degenerative cartilage in his right knee.
In September 2007, federal agents raided his factory on the 900 block of 61st Street in North Oakland and a building on the 300 block of 40th Street where marijuana was grown.
The investigation bore similarities to DEA raids in Oakland in 2006 in which five people connected with a company called Beyond Bomb were convicted of making marijuana-laced treats with such names as Munchy Way, Rasta Reece's and Puff-a-Mint Pattie.
In federal marijuana cases, defense attorneys are barred from telling jurors that companies supply medical cannabis products through licensed dispensaries to qualified patients. Proposition 215, the initiative approved in 1996 by state voters, legalized growing and using marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor's recommendation. Under federal law, marijuana used for any purpose is illegal.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: veggie]
#8884011 - 09/05/08 07:51 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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damn i used to eat some of those brands
they had a rice krispie chocolate bar called CHRONIC CRACKLE, it was da bomb 
even stated the exact amount of THC in it, 20mg.
he also released these rice krispie treats made with cannabutter, and half-dripped in this cannafudge, i forget the name. lol me and my lady passed out after splitting one
he deserves more credit than he gets. prison time is definitely not something he deserves.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: CptnGarden]
#8887457 - 09/06/08 04:18 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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not really a terrible sentence considering the large size of the operation.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: TODAY]
#8887662 - 09/06/08 05:17 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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> not really a terrible sentence considering the large size of the operation.
Any sentence is a terrible sentence for consensual crimes.
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Re: Feds Shut Down Marijuana Candy Factory In Oakland [Re: Seuss]
#8887721 - 09/06/08 05:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said: > not really a terrible sentence considering the large size of the operation.
Any sentence is a terrible sentence for consensual crimes.
agreed, though I know you know I was speaking in relative terms.
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