TABOR, S.D. – His mother probably sensed that her 46-year-old son was a pot head or at imbibed occasionally. But that wasn’t on her mind when she picked up a fresh pan of brownies in the kitchen to treat her friends playing cards at the Tabor Senior Center. Yes, you guessed it: The treats were magic brownies. After the last deck was dealt, the oldsters went home. Within a couple hours, several called the sheriff that they didn’t feel right. Some figured they’d been poisoned. Deputies figured it all out and arrested Michael James Koranda. The charge: Possession of a controlled r substance, a felony in South Dakota that can mean five years and a $10,000 fine.
Kordanda. Magic munchies ended up in senior tummies.
Downtown Tabor. The South Dakota village, population 417, is five miles. northwest of Yankton. The senior center and library share a wall.
What happened? The whole story
Koranda had been to Colorado, where he bought a pound of marijuana-infused butter – which is a legal product in Colorado. At home in Tabor he heated the butter in a pan, added cocoa and other of the usual ingredients for brownies, and baked them. Then he went to bed. You know the rest of this story: Mom found the brownies and assumed her sweet son had baked them for her card crowd friends. Are magic brownies a crime? In South Dakota, yes. The state Supreme Court t last year struck down a voter-passed measure to legalize recreational marijuana.