South Dakota: Man arrested after elderly mother unknowingly served cannabis brownies at community centre card game

A man has been arrested after his elderly mother unknowingly served cannabis brownies during a card game at her senior centre. Michael Koranda, 46, was arrested on 5 January after reports of a “possible poisoning” at the Tabor Community Center in South Dakota. The 46-year-old’s mother told a sheriff that “her son Michael had baked a pan of brownies and she took them to the community centre card game”, police wrote in an affidavit. Koranda, who faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance, admitted bringing one pound of cannabis butter into South Dakota to bake the brownies. Koranda, who lives in Tabor, handed the rest of the butter over to police.