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A Bensonhurst man was arrested on Wednesday for selling a dark green liquid mixture of alcohol and marijuana. Yes, liquid marijuana! It's news to us, and Capt. Gerard Dowling of the Manhattan South narcotics division says "it has not been seen around here before." The suspect, 32-year-old Anthony Briordy, told cops a four-ounce dose of it was stronger than one "marijuana cigarette," as the Times daintily puts it.
Briordy had eight Mason jars of the stuff in his apartment, plus cocaine, Percocet, Xanax, oxycodone, ecstasy and ketamine. Quite the collection. An undercover officer started buying from him a couple of months ago as he allegedly peddled drugs from his car, and this week he finally invited them into his apartment, where he brewed the distilled marijuana resins fermented with 180-proof grain alcohol. According to the Post (which goes with the headline "Stir the Pot") Briordy faces 22 felony counts of drug dealing.
Briordy allegedly told detectives he was selling about 16 ounces of the substance for $120; the liquid could then be mixed with juice, alcohol, or surreptitiously poured into punchbowls at government functions to bring about world peace. Up in Canada, you can also purchase (with a prescription) a liquid marijuana extract called Sativex that's sprayed into the mouth. And preliminary Google search turned up this recipe for extracting the essential oils from hemp—the instructions seem similar to what police describe as Briordy's method, but clearly further research is called for.
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Sounds great. No nasty smoke or risk of lung cancer.
And this is worse than EtOH and tobacco why?
I love how we all know there's nothing so bad about weed...yet we put up with our government's bullshit argument.
I'm no pothead, hightimes subscriber. But Compared to alcohol, you could even argue it's less detrimental. And cigarettes are pure addiction and health hazards. Yet distillers and tobacco companies have lobbyists, and since those two are more culturally acceptable, marijuana is arbitrarily deemed evil and illegal and comes with stiff penalties.
So hypocritical and illogical.
hemp saves trees
Amen!
Are the police that stupid that they think "liquid marijuana" is something other than weed soaked in alcohol and strained? Duh, alcohol is a solvent...it'll work that way on many things.
This is definitely not something "new".
One cop, in response to a question that's not revealed to us, is quoted to have said "it has not been seen around here before."
That doesn't mean the police didn't know what it was or how it was made, or that they thought it had never been done before.
Duh, marijuana is only solvent in heated fat, not alcohol or water. Which is why people make pot brownies, not pot tea or pot smoothies or pot gin and tonics. Duh.
Wrong. THC is definitely soluble in alcohol, and this mixture is known as Green Dragon.
Uhm, I'll just say that this stuff is also being made in East Williamsburg. :)
Does anybody have this guy's phone number?
We call it Green Dragon
Probably works very well but tastes like crap.
Pot in alcohol is just another name for tincture of cannabis.
The latter sounds much more salubrious.
Btw, Whatever happened to hash oil?
This is not new at all and yes it can be used with alcohol kinda like makin tea
This can also be used as a topical treatment for pain and swelling as Marijuana has anti-inflammatory properties.
though the liquid weed peaks my interest, after a hard day's work (commenting on gothamist) nothing beats a glass of wine and a pull off that sweet, sweet doobie.
Marijuana cigarette? How quaint...
this is old news and has been on williamsboard discussions for ever.
Maybe they'll mix it with some of the NJ Transit Slim-Fast.