A Boston-based medical marijuana facility purportedly hid edibles and vouchers for its products inside plastic eggs over the weekend for an Easter egg hunt around the city. The stunt sparked controversy on Instagram when another weed bakery published pictures of the apparently THC-infused sweets concealed inside one plastic egg, allegedly discovered “with a bunch of little kids hovering around it.”
Update: Matthew Allen, the director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, has told BostInno in an email that this story wrongly described Cannimals and the Boston Bake Shop as Boston medical marijuana dispensaries. Allen writes in his email:
Dispensaries are storefronts that provide medical marijuana to patients after being licensed by the state. No dispensaries are yet open in Massachusetts. Dispensaries are highly professionalized and highly regulated- a dispensary in Mass would never try an irresponsible PR stunt like the Cannimals group did this weekend. The Massachusetts medical marijuana program includes multiple regulations that prohibit dispensaries from doing anything like that.
A legal medical marijuana dispensary has yet to open in the city of Boston. BostInno was aware of this fact when we published the story; the choice to label Cannimals and the Boston Bake Shop as dispensaries, while incorrect, was done for lack of better words to describe either business.
When asked how Cannimals and the Boston Bake Shop should have been described, Allen admitted that he himself is unsure. The “most accurate way” to describe Cannimals and the Boston Bake Shop, Allen said, is to label them as “Distributors that are not operating within the parameters of the states medical marijuana program.”
Earlier: Cannimals Edibles appears to have taken credit for hiding multiple edibles and product vouchers inside an unknown amount of eggs, posting the following message on Instagram Sunday: “To those who are salty that we did a giveaway today, please delete yourself from our [Instagram] page if you don’t like our Easter eggs — FUCK YOU.”
A screenshot of that message was captured by the Boston Bake Shop, who posted Cannimals’ message on its Instagram account, writing:
The response from the kids who left a bunch of high strength edibles hidden in Easter eggs, in areas frequented by actual little children this Easter. Insanely irresponsible but predictable from these kids. Happy Easter and I hope your children didn’t unknowingly come across any hidden medibles this year.
The person managing the Boston Bake Shop’s Instagram account wrote in a separate message that one egg, “found at the Arboretum,” was placed in an area “frequented by literally dozens of children,” including “my 2.5 year old daughter.”
Cannimals, after receiving scolding messages from other Instagramers for the controversial giveaway, admitted that they did hide product vouchers in Easter eggs; however, Cannimals didn’t comment on the edibles that the Boston Bake Shop allegedly found.
“TO ALL THOSE WHO CAN’T READ, WE LEFT VOUCHERS IN THE EGGS,” Cannimals wrote to other Instagramers. “SO KINDLY, GET FUCKED.”
But another Instagram message posted by the Boston Bake Shop suggests that Cannimals hid more than just vouchers inside the eggs.
The pseudo-mission statement Cannimals has on its website doesn’t do the dispensary any favors, either:
Our story is short but sweet,
We’d like to melt you to your seat!
With 100mg+ in each treat,
We’ll be sure to sweep you off your feet!
Featured screengrab via thebostonbakeshop Instagram.
