Police Charge Brooklyn Man With Selling Liquid Marijuana - NYTimes.com
Liquid Marijuana Seized in Brooklyn
Published: November 11, 2009
In what the police called an unusual drug arrest, a Brooklyn man was charged on Wednesday with selling liquid marijuana.
“It has not been seen around here before,” said Capt. Gerard Dowling of the Manhattan South narcotics division, referring to a dark green mixture of alcohol and marijuana.
The police said they seized eight Mason jars of the substance on Wednesday from the home of the man, Anthony Briordy, 32. They said they also seized cocaine and prescription painkillers, including OxyContin.
An undercover officer began purchasing the liquid and other drugs from Mr. Briordy about two months ago, the police said. Mr. Briordy was said to have told the officer that the liquid was often mixed with fruit punch.
The police said that throughout the investigation, Mr. Briordy told the officer that he made the mixture at home and that a four-ounce dose of it was stronger than one marijuana cigarette.
The liquid was classified as a controlled substance, the police said, after laboratory tests determined that it was an extremely potent form of marijuana.
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