When the CIA Made 'Pseudo-Marijuana'
the Agency’s Office of Medical Services had a drug abuse booth “originally created by CIA doctors for parents who work for the agency.”
According to the Post-Dispatch, “federal narcotics agents had warned them that transporting marijuana across state lines was illegal - even for CIA.”
The Agency’s apparent solution was to swap in “pseudo marijuana” which looked and smelled like marijuana - even when burned. Reportedly, one high school bus driver took several sniffs before commenting that it smelled “just like the back of my bus.”
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