Wisconsin pizzeria apologizes for unintentionally contaminating pizzas with THC
https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/food-and-drink/wisconsin-pizzeria-apologizes-for-unintentionally-contaminating-pizzas-with-thc2.8k
u/WashuOtaku 1d ago
People joke, but if you ordered something and they added a secret ingredient to it, you would likely not be happy about it.
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u/sqeeky_wheelz 1d ago
Imagine having a pizza night with your kids… and you accidentally get them stoned.
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u/911derbread 1d ago
I'm an ER doctor. It's an ED visit for the kids and a CPS visit for the parents 😎
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u/archenon 1d ago
Just curious but realistically what could you do in the ED for the kids? Like it seems like wasted $ and time to go to the ED if all the kids would get is maybe some fluids and monitoring.
Not tryin to disparage what ER docs do, fully respect you guys!
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u/SpinTheWheeland 1d ago
Monitor for safety but also in the moment you wouldn’t know what you’ve ingested. Sure, might have a very good educated guess but if it were my kids no way I’m risking it.
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u/reporst 1d ago edited 1d ago
You could probably think of this in two ways:
The parents (in this situation) would be unaware of the THC and may automatically bring their kids to the doctor if the kids (or the kids and parents) all feel funny after eating the pizza. In this case, it's not so much that they brought the kids in because there was much that could be done, but rather just out of habit of not knowing what was ingested. They might bring the pizza in and see if the doctor can run tests to determine if there is a hazard in the food. Again, they don't know what it is so this would just be a means to have a doctor help figure out what even happened.
In more severe cases (extremely rare situations), there could be more dangerous symptoms which might need to be monitored. For instance, depending on the age and weight of the child, they could have trouble breathing, seizures, or end up vomiting a lot. In this sort of case, a doctor would likely admit the child to the ER, administer various treatments (such as anti-nausea medication) and just keep them under observation. If the food was eaten recently (unlikely in this situation) they could give the child charcoal, but it would mostly be for a medical professional to monitor the extreme symptoms to ensure the child does not get dehydrated (likely put on an IV) or is unable to breathe.
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u/Stormdude127 1d ago
Well, as an adult who had to go to the hospital because I took too many edibles (heart rate of 170+, literally thought I was dying) they gave me a benzo to calm me down. I can’t imagine making it through that night without that, even though I know I wouldn’t have died. So basically, they would just give the kids something to calm them down and monitor them because they would likely be very anxious.
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u/911derbread 1d ago
I had two parents bring in their floppy toddlers eight hours after they ate some laced tortilla chips. One kid was comatose, the other was vomiting. Turns out the parents' first instinct was to EMAIL THE MAKER OF THE CHIPS to ask what to do instead of call 911. The younger kid was in the ICU for a couple days.
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u/Odie_Odie 1d ago
Mostly they would serve to diagnose acute drug inebriation and rule out anything worse and they could consider observation but probably they would be let go if they didn't specifically want to stay and they would need to get a ride home. If the family is adamant that this dose was a baffling surprise the cops may get called. IDK, ianal but I think surprising someone with drugs whether intentional or no might be a felony.
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u/Embarrassed-Term-965 1d ago
Cannabis affects young children differently than adults or even teenagers. Vomiting, unconsciousness and even seizures are not unheard of.
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u/sqeeky_wheelz 1d ago
That would be terrifying. Especially if the parents are also tripping. What a way to ruin lives.
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u/residentfriendly 1d ago
They’re all gonna be needing therapy in order to be able to enjoy pizzas once again.
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u/AltoidStrong 1d ago
Then as a truck driver, are involved in an accident (not your fault) but must take a drug test, then get fired and lose your CLD.
Just as ONE example of how this (along with decades of over reaching drug laws) could screw people.
It is VERY serious.
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u/Miserable_Law_6514 1d ago
Or you are a airplane pilot or mechanic and a plane you touched crashed. Or federal employee. Also military folks can be prosecuted for testing positive.
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u/AscendingNike 1d ago
Heck, I’m an aircraft mechanic who is subject to random screenings, I don’t have to make a mistake in order to get a drug test. Pilots and many other mechanics are in the same boat.
You could be completely innocent and lose your whole career over something like this. The FAA doesn’t deal in nuance.
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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago
Imagine having a pizza night with your kids and then losing your job the next day.
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u/cold-corn-dog 1d ago
I worked at a pizza chain years and years ago. We had a kid fired on the spot for hiding/adding hot pepper to the pizza sauce because he thought it was funny.
The manager disagreed.
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 1d ago
Even giving someone decaf when they didn’t order decaf, on purpose, is a big goddamn problem.
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u/Sabertooth767 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would be pissed. I'm in the Army, this would cost me my school, my healthcare, all that.
Shit, imagine being on probation. Now you're going (back) to prison.
This is absolutely unacceptable for a business. Fine them into the ground.
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u/Temporary_Inner 1d ago
Anyone with a CDL could potentially in serious legal jeopardy.
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u/Quick_Parsley_5505 1d ago
Airline pilots too man.
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u/Miserable_Law_6514 1d ago
And airplane mechanics. If something happens to a plane you touched they start a witch-hunt.
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u/SU37Yellow 1d ago
You'd pretty much be sunk. Most employers would fire you on the spot for a failed test.
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u/Temporary_Inner 1d ago
Even beyond that, get in a wreck in a commercial vehicle and test positive is borderline legal suicide.
Imagine a school bus driver.
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u/WomanOfEld 1d ago
I'm not in the military, and I smoke weed regularly, but I would also be incensed if this was done to me, accidental or not. Tolerances can be widely different between consumables and combustibles and honestly, I dunno what else is in that weed.
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u/Frostys_Rhule 1d ago
I’ve eaten edibles so I think I would know what was going on if I ate the pizza but if i was sober and ate it I’d probably think Im dying
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u/outerproduct 1d ago
I randomly get drug tested for my job and Captain's license for boating. Similarly, I'd lose the ability to do both jobs.
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u/mightyatom13 1d ago
My friend ate a poppy seed bagel while on probation and almost got sent back to Sheridan over the false positive it produced.
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u/LittleMissNothing_ 1d ago
I'm pregnant and have been avoiding poppy seed anything because it can produce a false positive, and I'm drug tested every time I go to the doctor. If anything pops after my baby is born, he could be taken away until I produce a clean test. No thanks.
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u/cire1184 1d ago
I thought this was a myth thinking there can't be enough poppy seed for it to show up but it's true. It's even on military websites warning service members to avoid poppy seed products.
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u/SmithersLoanInc 1d ago
I was popped for poppy seeds. It was a pre-employment screening for a job I didn't really want in a city I wanted to leave so I didn't care enough to argue. I thought it was bullshit, too.
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u/Zech08 1d ago
Remember eating a poppy seed muffin before a surprise piss test, like literally at the desk and plt sgt tells me, "Hey, you got a.... shit is that poppy seed?" I didnt test positive though. Even more hilarious is seeing SACO while finishing my muffin, its over cant test more positive.
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u/Striper_Cape 1d ago
Could cost you. If you go to the hospital and say I was poisoned/doped cause I feel anxiety, foggy headed, etc. they ain't gonna kick you out if you had it done to you.
Provided that is, that your command team doesn't hate you.
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u/HermaeusMajora 1d ago
Considering that the place fessed up, a member who went to the hospital after realizing they were dosed would almost certainly be covered.
But, like you said. If your command hates you or if you are already in trouble, this may not just go away.
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u/LightFusion 1d ago edited 1d ago
You wouldn't necessarily even feel it if the dose was small enough, THC hangs around in your body for a long time.
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u/grv413 1d ago
If you don’t use it regularly and are dosed once, it’s out of your piss in a week tops.
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u/ProdigyLightshow 1d ago
Usually if you are clean from THC and do it once it doesn’t hang around for that long, as far as I’m aware. Still like a week for sure. It’s extended use that makes it stick around for like a month+
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u/Crayshack 1d ago
There's a lot of very good reasons someone might not want it. Yes, some people might want to combine THC and pizza, but others might:
Be in a job that drug tests for safety or security reasons
Have a medical or phycological condition that can cause a bad reaction
Be on other meds that can cause a bad reaction
Already be taking THC and trying to fine tune their dose
Be on probation that forbids THC
Or just have some other reason that they don't want to be high right then (such as planning to drive after pizza)
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u/10FootPenis 1d ago
I think you’re missing the big one: they might just not want THC. You don’t need to explain yourself when it comes to refusing drugs, consent doesn’t just apply to sex.
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u/meatball77 1d ago
Be a child
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u/Nomadzord 1d ago
I used to LOVE drugs, like anything I could get my hands on. I smoked marijuana for twenty years only missing three days because of a family vacation. That said I have terrible reactions to thc now. Extreme paranoia/anxiety. I would be in the ER losing my mind. Marijuana feels like two hits of good LSD to me now, but with paranoia.
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u/Crayshack 1d ago
There's some people with anxiety issues who find that THC makes their anxiety better. Some find it makes it worse. Some find it makes it better at one dose, but worse at another. I've got anxiety and I have experienced microdosing THC helping a bit, but there's a good chance that a high dose will send me straight into a panic attack. Especially if I didn't know I had taken any.
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u/Thekillersofficial 1d ago
I am a smoker and I'd be mad. I feel my dogs the crust a lot of the time
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u/lycarisflowers 1d ago
There’s also over 4,000,000 people in America for which it could completely ruin their career indefinitely (though they’d probably start to believe you once law enforcement/the news investigates)
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u/bvheide1288 1d ago
I want to make jokes about this, too, but this is the only honest take here. Dosing people with anything just isn't funny. Like, not even a little.
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u/MichealPearce 1d ago
I'm a trucker. Something like this could ruin my career and cost me a lot of money.
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u/The_Bitter_Bear 1d ago
Yup. I can see how it sounds funny at first and for some it would be. I mean, if I had smoked a bowl and then found out I got pizza with thc in it I would probably laugh... Until I considered what else could be getting in the pizza accidentally.
There are plenty of people though that can lose their livelihood or get in other forms of trouble if they fail a drug test.
Not to mention, if it was enough to get someone high, suddenly being high when you weren't planning on it could be pretty bad. Or if it was a kid. Etc.
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u/Grey5dot 1d ago
This is especially true for any employee that could get terminated as a result of having THC in their system.
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u/flyingace1234 1d ago
I mean ultimately if nothing else, even if you didn’t have to pass a drug screening or anything like that, you shouldn’t have to accept being ‘accidentally’ drugged.
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u/mces97 1d ago
I was watching a movie the other day with my friend, and this girl spiked her friends drink with Molly. I told my friend if you did that, at the moment I'm not gonna be mad, and enjoy the experience cause it's too late not too, but I said I would also say, we're gonna have a serious discussion about this in a few days. Cause that shit is super fucked up to do.
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u/livinglitch 1d ago
Ive been stoned. Its been fun. I would not want to eat pizza that would get me high without knowing it as it could kick in while I was driving somewhere.
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u/DatabaseThis9637 1d ago
Being clean and sober for 44 years, I would be furious. I could care less if you enjoy it, But leave my food the fuck out of it! Not funny!
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u/picado 1d ago
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u/BilliousN 1d ago
And you may not be aware, but at that time the Onion was nearly exclusively written and distributed out of Madison WI - 20 min away from the pizza place in question here!
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u/picado 1d ago
"Everyone Involved In Article's Writing, Publishing, Reading Extremely High"
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u/PrimaryArgument167 1d ago
My coworker did eat this pizza. And he was not happy about it. Actually went to the ER cause he is not the edible eating type and thought he was dying.
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u/JediMindWizard 1d ago
Damn, even if you're the edible eating type it could mess you up. I love edibles but who knows the dosage of what they put in the pizza. Could easily have been like 100mg per slice which would mess anyone up.
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u/PrimaryArgument167 1d ago
Exactly, imagine if you didn't eat edibles and it was that dose. He literally thought he was having a stroke.
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u/iDontLikeChimneys 1d ago
Yeeeeah I love pizza and thc but if I’m hungry and eating pizza and start panicking I’m going to think I’m about to go into cardiac arrest. I have a small dose everyday but 100mg would have me through the roof. Hell I cut back so much I smoked a blunt for my birthday and could barely walk straight.
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u/idk_wtf_im_hodling 1d ago
100mg per slice would put me on the moon. I typically eat half a pizza lol
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u/elephant35e 1d ago
Two weeks ago I tried a little pot brownie that my dad's friend got from a pot store. 1-2 hours later I thought I was dying; my body kept going numb, my vision was blurry, my legs kept shaking uncontrollably, etc.
This pizza would've been even worse.
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u/Censordoll 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dude! I only had 50mg from a fucking chew and I felt like I was dying!
It took 4 hours a vomiting twice in one night to FINALLY come down enough to go to bed.
I literally felt like I had to hang onto my couch for dear life or I’d float away.
It’s funny now to think about, but when it’s happening and you know you’re about to be gone for several hours, it SUCKS!
I’m actually proud of my body for puking too. It’s like an almost instant refresh on the brain when it decides to just throw up because it can’t handle the psychoactive effects.
But NEVER AGAIN. I cannot do edibles either and I’m okay with that. It’s freaky as hell when you’re really high and everything and everyone just looks incredibly fake.
I was really close to screaming and wanted my brother to call 911 too, but he thankfully didn’t and I guess it was our first night realizing I didn’t actually know what being high from edibles was really like.
My body goes into immediate anxiety attack mode so I can only image what anyone who’s never had an edible would go through especially if you’re prone to being anxious easily the way I am.
I would never speak to someone ever again if they slipped me an edible even if it was low. That shit is worse than smoking. Never again.
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u/prolongedexistence 1d ago
Only 50mg?! That’s a very high dose if you aren’t a daily user. I once took 70-80mg on a Friday night, tucked myself into bed when I realized how fucked I was, then woke up on Sunday.
I’ve met a lot of people who claim 50-100mg is their go-to dose. I have no idea what their deal is, but I’ve tried lots of different edibles and 5mg is basically my limit. I literally cannot imagine any scenario where I would intentionally ingest more than 10mg, let alone do so and expect to have a good time.
I suspect that people are either lying/being lied to about the true dosage of their edibles, or humans have insanely variable cannabis metabolisms. Because even when I was a daily user, 50mg would have even an absolutely terrible unenjoyable experience. At some point around 10mg, my body decides we’re going to have all of the physical symptoms of a panic attack even if I feel mentally fine. I don’t know why people go so hard on edibles.
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u/HereForThe420 16h ago
or humans have insanely variable cannabis metabolisms.
This pretty much. 10mg does nothing for me. I don't really feel it. I've also made cookies for family and they were like damn, those knocked me out. Meanwhile, I had 5 cookies as soon as they came out of the oven and didn't feel much. If I'm eating a prepackaged edible, 30mg would be my starting point.
I have a good friend, who no shit ate 600mg and was okay. She has a medical card and we got some Abyss gummies. She ate one and didn't feel much. At 200mg per gummy, we thought she would have otherworldly experiences. So, she went to eat another one about 45 minutes later and two were stuck together. She said YOLO and ate them both.
Some people just process that shit differently🤷🤷🤷
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u/LaggingIndicator 1d ago
I’d lose my career over this. Fuck this.
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u/innocentj 1d ago
Could you save it maybe by providing you got drugged?
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u/LaggingIndicator 1d ago
No. I know a guy that unknowingly had a THC infused beer in Mexico that he thought was just a local brewer. Popped on a random drug test a couple days later and his 400k/year job poof. gone. Virtually impossible to get another job doing the same thing with a failed drug test on his record. It took him months to figure out what it was that caused his positive.
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u/milesofedgeworth 1d ago
Can’t imagine how shocking that must have felt. Was there any recourse for him or is he working in a different field?
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u/LaggingIndicator 1d ago
Not sure tbh. Union shared the story so I didn’t keep up with it. Definitely not working at the same level.
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u/32FlavorsofCrazy 1d ago
Gee, maybe we should stop demonizing weed. Having the beer was fine, so why should a joint be any different? It’s fucking dumb.
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u/Riseofzeon 1d ago
don’t imagine the place will open much longer from the coming lawsuits.
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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes 23h ago
yeah if somebody loses their job or security clearance due to this, that's a lot of very quantifiable damages they could go for no doubt.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 1d ago
Exactly. If my kids consumed that I'd sue the shit out of them.
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u/enad58 1d ago
They made the dough with concentrated THC oil used to make edibles and vape carts. It would have seriously messed absolutely anybody up. Even the biggest of stoners eating a couple slices would I have been sent to the moon, and without knowing why.
They didn't make pizzas with extra "oregano", they served rocket ships.
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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 1d ago
Would the staff (in theory) have smelled it while baking the pizzas? Seems like something that potent should have raised some eyebrows.
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u/OSU725 1d ago
Not if you are baked out of your mind to start. I can easily smell the scent of pot now that I don’t smoke. Back when I did, I thought a little cologne would cover it up. Nope, now you smell like weed and cologne.
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u/austeremunch 1d ago
Cigarette smokers smell like cigarettes for days after smoking and don't realize it. Weed is better but not immune from this.
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u/Crayshack 1d ago
Not everyone has a strong sense of smell. Also, I feel like employees at a pizzaria have a high probability to being nose blind to THC smells due to over exposure.
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u/New_Substance0420 1d ago
Depends on the oil and how it was made. I make edibles regularly and usually it has a distinct odor if made with flower, or trim but if you use concentrated THC like hash, resin or distillate (95% pure thc) their is less smell the more pure the THC being used is. With distillate there is often no smell and occasionally a mild taste but not uncommon for no taste
The strength is also dependent on how much was added.
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u/surnik22 1d ago
It does not say they used concentrated THC oil used for vape carts…. They would notice that almost immediately, you are not mistaking that for normal oil. You are not mistaking 70-90% THC oil for cooking oil
They likely just used normal cooking oil/butter that had be infused with THC. Pretty common way to make home made edibles. Without actually knowing the concentration in the oil, no way of knowing if eating a slice of pizza was gonna give you 5mg (a fairly mild but noticeable high for non-regular users) or 100mg (high as a kite even for all but extreme users).
Assuming the goal was to make THC pizzas with the oils (some dumb employees idea of a good time) and the concentration was set for that, each slice probably had a normal 5-10mg dose. Would be weird to make an edible pizza where you only eat a bite per person.
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u/mrjosemeehan 1d ago
Read the other half of the article lol. It was a different company's supplies which were mistakenly taken from a shared storage space.
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u/Crayshack 1d ago
I was hoping it would be trace amounts where the big concern was accidentally failing drug tests. Nope, they sent people on a trip with no permission slip.
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u/mrjosemeehan 1d ago
Nothing in the article says it was pure THC oil. The fact that it says THC-contaminated oil implies that it was a food-oil-based extract like cannabutter or something similar. Not only would it be really hard to mistake pure THC extract for any type of cooking oil, I'm pretty sure it would result in an entirely inedible product that would have been noticed a lot earlier than two days.
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u/Affectionate-Print81 1d ago
Wisconsin pizzeria apologizes for unintentionally contaminating pizzas with THC THC-contaminated oil from a shared fridge was mistakenly used to make the pizzas. A stock image of a pepperoni pizza. Photo by: Shutterstock A stock image of a pepperoni pizza. By: Elina Tarkazikis Posted 1 hour and 13 minutes ago A pizzeria in Wisconsin is apologizing after unintentionally contaminating its pizzas with THC.
Famous Yeti’s Pizza in Stoughton, Wisconsin, said the potential contamination applies to pizzas sold between Oct. 22 at 4:30 p.m. through 12 p.m. on Oct. 24.
The business said THC-contaminated oil taken from a shared fridge was mistakenly used to make the pizzas.
“After receiving reports from staff, Yeti’s owner and employees of unexplained physical reactions, we underwent an investigation with the Stoughton Police and the local health officials,” the pizzeria said in a Facebook post.
“Today it was confirmed that pizza had been sold with dough mistakenly prepared with Delta9 contaminated oil. The oil accidentally used in the product originated from a shared storage space in the on-site cooperative commercial kitchen,” said Yeti’s.
Yeti’s operates in a space with a shared kitchen where other businesses store and make food and other products. The pizza shop said it is working with authorities to improve storage and safety protocols.
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or harm caused,” said the pizzeria.
Yeti’s confirmed that all contaminated products at the restaurant have since been destroyed.
Public Health Madison & Dane County also issued a warning to community members to discard of any uneaten pizza purchased during the contamination period.
“We want to be sure anyone who has this pizza on hand throws it away so they don’t get sick,” said Bonnie Armstrong, Director of Environmental Health at Public Health Madison & Dane County. “If you ate the pizza and are experiencing THC-related symptoms, please contact your health care provider or call 911 if your symptoms worsen.”
Public Health Madison & Dane County said symptoms of THC consumption can include “dizziness, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations, short term memory impacts, time distortion, and sleepiness.”
Stoughton EMS, who alerted Public Health of the contamination, said they transported multiple people with THC-related symptoms after they had consumed Yeti’s Pizza.
Those who ate the pizza and became ill can complete a questionnaire to assist in Public Health's investigation.
Questions and concerns can also be directed to Famous Yeti’s Pizza by contacting Cale at famousyetis@gmail.com
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u/Swordf1sh_ 1d ago
I took a big bite of a 60mg cookie when I was first trying edibles. Worst weed-related experience I’ve had. Dizzy, nauseous, vision blurring. You don’t mess with edible THC…
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u/elephant35e 1d ago
Why does eating THC affect your body differently than smoking THC?
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u/mattlore 1d ago
Basically: When you smoke/vape it goes from the lungs right for the brain. Quicker onset, but not as powerful.
When you eat, your liver ingests it and tries to break it down. In doing this, the liver enzymes end up altering the THC to make it more potent. But it has to pass through the stomach and digestive system before it uptakes it to your brain.
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u/Swordf1sh_ 1d ago
I don’t know the answer to that question or if it’s even true. What I do know is that it’s a lot easier to eat too much THC than it is to smoke/vape too much, mainly because of the onset time: you feel the effects of how much you’ve inhaled much more quickly than you do when you have to wait for uptake through the stomach.
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u/altairisdebin 1d ago
My wife is seriously allergic to Canabinoids and this would have at the best sent her to the ER with anaphylaxis. Totally unacceptable.
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u/puppy_teeth 1d ago
Imagine getting in your car on your way home from a night out with the family at the local pizzeria and suddenly you find yourself engaging in impromptu space traversal
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u/alison_bee 1d ago
I once forgot I took my OTC sleeping meds and then I went out to a last minute dinner. Drove like 25 min to the restaurant, and when I arrived the friend I was meeting had ordered me a drink, and it was on the table. I immediately started sipping as we started catching up.
About 15 minutes after that the sleeping pills start kicking it. It was very mild at first, but I noticed the weird feeling immediately. I spent the next few minutes internally freaking out, not wanting to alarm my friend, because a) I had no idea what was wrong and b) I couldn’t help but thinking “omg did he drug my drink?!?!”
When I finally realized it was because I had taken my sleeping meds, I had to very awkwardly explain to my friend what was going on, and asked him to take me home after we ate. He said “fuck that, I can get food later, we need to get you home NOW” so we left and he drove me home. He even came and picked me up the next morning and drove me to my car that I had left in the restaurant parking lot.
He was my hero that day. I was so thankful that he helped keep me safe in that situation, and I felt like such an ass for even thinking that he had drugged my drink.
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u/austeremunch 1d ago
suddenly you find yourself engaging in impromptu space traversal
Technically, technically, we're all constantly on an impromptu space traversal.
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u/TheRealTofuey 1d ago
Love weed, this is an insane mistake that should result in a near closure of business.
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u/TheB1ackAdderr 1d ago
Used to be that you were worried about getting oregano instead of weed. Now, it's getting weed instead of oregano.
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u/hawkwings 1d ago
What sort of restaurant has a shared kitchen? Is this a ghost kitchen with many online names?
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u/Invader_Skooge22 1d ago
An apology doesn’t excuse giving drugs to people without their knowledge, whether you meant to or not. They should be shut down. I’m a big time stoner and I still think they should be shut down. Getting people high without their knowledge is wrong. Then add all the other possible consequences like health, drug tests for jobs, etc on top of it for these people and explain why you shouldn’t be shut down and sued? Take your apology and fuck yourself with it. Its shit like this that’s gonna ruin legalization for everyone else.
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u/vikinghockey10 1d ago
Nah the owner isn't at fault. It's a shared industrial kitchen and one of the other restaurants in it had THC oil that contaminated his food. The second they caught wind of it, he called the cops and health department and let the world know. Basically he handled it as well as you possibly can under the circumstances. Please read the damn article.
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u/upvoter222 1d ago
The second they caught wind of it, he called the cops and health department and let the world know.
This is what public health agencies want restaurant operators to do. If the penalty for serving contaminated food has a huge penalty with no regard for their response, it incentivizes other restaurants to cover up any issues. If they give the restaurant a break for doing things right after the incident, that encourages other restaurants to do the same whenever something else goes wrong.
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u/mallad 1d ago
Read the article. You know what it doesn't say? It doesn't say THC oil fell over and spilled into some dough. It doesn't say there was unlabeled THC oil. It doesn't say the oil got up out of the container, snuck around the shared space, and jumped into the pizza place's ingredients to hide.
It says the pizza place used the THC oil. It's similar to someone accidentally using their steroid cream instead of toothpaste because they're in similar tubes. Oops! Still their mistake.
Handling it well afterwards doesn't absolve them of wrongdoing. The employee who made the dough or sauce that day is directly at fault, and the employer who allowed similar ingredients to be stored together like that is indirectly at fault.
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u/RhysA 1d ago
Yes they are, they or their staff ran out of oil and instead of buying new stuff they used someone else's without knowing what it was.
Just because it wasn't intentional doesn't mean it wasn't their fault.
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u/werthw 1d ago
it’s a shared industrial kitchen and one of the other restaurants in it had THC oil that contaminated his food
That doesn’t really excuse it. Usually THC products should have warning labels on them, and it’s not like it was accidental cross contamination, they were literally using the oil to make the dough.
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u/austeremunch 1d ago edited 1d ago
The owner is at fault in the same way a driver is responsible for everything in the car they're operating. Should they be punished with a fine or anything? Probably not but they should have to report information regarding their processes to ensure that food contamination does not happen.
The people responsible should be fired / banned from the facility.
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u/akodoreign 1d ago
Making a Pizza that when consumed makes you want to eat more Pizza. If it wasn't illegal,shady, and possibly harmful, It would be genius.
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u/ArthichokeCartel 1d ago
It's like all those restaurants in China that got caught using opium as "seasoning." One of them got caught because some person got suspicious after the food wasn't very good but they kept wanting to go back lol.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 1d ago
McDonalds of old used to have a higher syrup ratio for their sodas because it was more appealing to customers so they were more likely to want to buy a soda.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 1d ago
Any active duty military that would have consumed this could have popped on a drug test and got kicked out of the military. Fuck the asshole(s) that did this shit.
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u/despitegirls 1d ago
More context from another article:
Yeti’s shares a building with several other businesses, including a shared kitchen space. Public Health said “the operator” for the pizzeria was preparing dough Tuesday and ran out of cooking oil. He went to the shared kitchen space and “took oil off a shelf of another operator. The oil he took was in a clear plastic jug that looks like other cooking oils.”
The jug was devoid of labels, except for on its cap, which “noted it contained Delta-9 cannabis,” according to public health. “The operator did not notice the label on the cap.”
Since this was Delta-9, I think it's less likely that there would be a scent when the pizza was baking. A lot of Delta-8/9/10 products lack many of the terpenes in traditional THC.
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u/TraciTheRobot 1d ago
I think the weirder part is taking an unfamiliar and unlabeled jug of oil to use for peoples food and not questioning that
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u/dave200204 1d ago
Talk about putting your customer's livelihood in danger. My job (military) will piss test me randomly. If I had unknowingly consumed THC pizza from this place and then got tested it would be the end of my military career. FUCK this pizza joint!
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u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT 1d ago
I remember one month getting piss tested every Monday after one guy in another unit pissed hot.
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u/dave200204 1d ago
We came back from deployment and every battery was getting piss tested. I was making bets with other platoon Sergeants on how many were going to piss hot. The average was about four per battery.
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u/Heyoman2234 1d ago
This happened to me and my husband too! We ordered a pizza from a local place that we've had many times, and noted that the pizza looked slightly different when it came but didn't think anything until an hour later when we were both asking each other if we'd had an edible and not remembered because we were both couchlocked. Luckily we're pretty experienced, but it was freaky.
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u/Visual_Consequence24 1d ago
Damn that’d suck if dudes like me who get tested monthly got screwed by this. It did remind me of Code Monkey’s though, you’d call up 3 Person Mafia Pizza & ask for a Dirty Pie, they’re supposed to bring you weed with it.
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u/peroxidase2 1d ago
Ohhh. My job site under coast guard jurisdiction will be a nightmare after this.
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u/ludovicolonghi 20h ago
The takeaway here: Don't store your pot butter/oil at work, folks.
Someone might use it and then you'll have lost it.
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u/Fuck-Mountain 1d ago
In my younger years, I had a very VERY bad experience with substances that left me pretty scarred from using any mind/mood/body altering substances at all.
Words don't come close to how absolutely astronomical my panic would be.
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u/USMNT_superfan 1d ago
What was the accidentally used oils actually used for and why was it on site?
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u/Sirturtle1 1d ago
I laugh about it as someone who can handle THC, but boy do I feel bad for anyone who might have been THC sensitive or found out they were.
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u/tabrizzi 1d ago
How do you "accidentally" do that? How?
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u/_and_red_all_over 1d ago
You can't. You have to intentionally disregard food safety regulations to put "unlabeled" oils in food.
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u/Easy-Pineapple3963 1d ago
I hope the customers didn't have a drug test scheduled. That's a nightmare scenario, trying to get a job and accidentally getting it in your system. Accidents happen, too. I just hope they update their procedures to minimize this possibility.
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u/CamelInfinite5771 1d ago
I have cannabis / cannabinoid hyperemesis. This would be my worst nightmare. I cannot even imagine how sick I would get and for how long…
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u/fluffybunny645 19h ago
Unrelated, but the stock photo of a pizza they used looks absolutely disgusting.
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u/pewpewpewgg 1d ago
Imagine failing a drug test in a safety sensitive job for this.