Kinda reminds me of the story of the kid picked up carrying a bag filled with parsley who said he was going to trick a friend in to thinking it was pot to see him smoke it. Turns out carrying a substance that you are going to pretend are real drugs is Illegal.. better keep your mints in proper tins or the cops might "think" it is Drugs.
and that's not a good wow.
We have an photo of him here in the Special collections of UMKC's miller nichols library from when he lived in Kansas city.