Idiot of the Week: Ice Cream Worker pleads guilty to lacing ice cream with pot

This week's idiot worked in an ice cream shop, made a batch of pot-laced ice cream for himself and stored it in their freezer, which was unfortunately sold. If he just put a NOTE on it, it wouldn't have been served to and sickened customers. 

 Man pleads guilty to lacing ice cream with THC in New Hampshire

Ariana St Pierre,WGMETue, July 22nd 2025 at 6:29 AM

CONCORD, New Hampshire (WGME) -- A Maine man pleaded guilty to lacing ice cream with THC, which made four people sick in New Hampshire two years ago. [It has taken two years for this case to go forward].

The Department of Justice says 45-year-old Marc Flore of Portland pleaded guilty on Monday to tampering with consumer products. He laced a batch of coffee-Oreo flavored ice cream with THC, short for tetrahydrocannabinol, and putting it with other batches of ice cream in a freezer at Roots Café in Newmarket. THC is the main psychoactive compound in cannabis (marijuana) that produces the feeling of being "high." 

According to court documents, Flore said he added THC to the ice cream when he made a batch in September 2022. 

Six months later, four people in Newmarket got sick after eating coffee Oreo ice cream from Angelo’s Amore in March 2023. All four experienced dizziness, elevated heart rate, vomiting, and three had to be briefly hospitalized.

While the ice cream was intended for Flore’s personal use, officials say he stored it in the ice cream café’s freezer with other commercial ice cream, without properly labeling that it contained THC.

Officials say staff then unknowingly served the THC-laced ice cream batch to the four customers who got sick in March 2023.Flore will be sentenced on November 4. He is facing up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.