--- title: Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie description: Ted Cruz offered to buy a debate moderator a marijuana brownie. canonical: https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T01:40:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:10:07.144Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie og:description: The debate was in Colorado, after all. og:url: https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24cefa360c6714fb/69886ea2196cf4f390038bd0/ted-cruz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBARepublican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (C) gestures as Carly Fiorina (L) and Chris Christie look on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boul og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie twitter:description: The debate was in Colorado, after all. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24cefa360c6714fb/69886ea2196cf4f390038bd0/ted-cruz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 29, 2015 1:40 AM UTC  Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (C) gestures as Carly Fiorina (L) and Chris Christie look on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (C) gestures as Carly Fiorina (L) and Chris Christie look on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 29, 2015 1:40 AM UTC Ted Cruz took a cue from the location of Wednesday’s Republican debate when trying to make peace with a moderator. After a heated exchange in which he lambasted CNBC moderators for asking unfair questions, the Texas Senator tried to make peace by suggesting that he would do something nice for interlocutor Carl Quintanilla. “I’ll buy you a tequila,” Cruz said. “Or even some famous Colorado brownies.” Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana in 2014. **Read More:** [_Transcript: Read the Full Text of the CNBC Republican Debate in Boulder_](http://time.com/4091301/transcript-read-the-full-text-of-the-cnbc-republican-debate-in-boulder/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/"},"headline":"Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie","datePublished":"2015-10-29T01:40:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:10:07.144Z","description":"Ted Cruz offered to buy a debate moderator a marijuana brownie.","url":"https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/","keywords":["ted cruz","Marijuana","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24cefa360c6714fb/69886ea2196cf4f390038bd0/ted-cruz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24cefa360c6714fb/69886ea2196cf4f390038bd0/ted-cruz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBARepublican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (C) gestures as Carly Fiorina (L) and Chris Christie look on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boul","caption":"Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (C) gestures as Carly Fiorina (L) and Chris Christie look on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo.","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ted-cruz/","name":"ted cruz"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4091947/republican-debate-ted-cruz-pot-brownie/","name":"Watch Ted Cruz Offer a Debate Moderator a Pot Brownie"}}]}] ```