Police have warned parents and children about the dangers of buying things online.
North Yorkshire police has recently issued warnings regarding the sale of drug laced sweets, explaining how it would be easy to get mixed up between the real thing, and the versions laced with drugs which you can buy online. Of the versions seized by police, there have been versions laced with cannabis, and others with ecstasy.
The sweet looks like the real thing.
Many drugged versions of the popular Nerds Rope sweets have been seized by police, and they’re almost indistinguishable from the real thing (except the packaging).
Police are particularly concerned about their appeal to youths, who may come of harm by consuming the “sweets”.
There’s also a chance that the sweets are knock offs, meaning they don’t contain the drugs they say they do, and this is more likely to be the case here than the USA (where they’re believed to have originated) because it is regulated over there, and not here.
North Yorkshire Police Constable Lauren Green told a newspaper: “We want to make parents and carers aware that we have seen a rise in young people being in possession of drug-infused sweets known as ‘edibles’.
“They can look very similar to well-known sweets such as Haribo, Smarties and chocolate bars. Edibles can be laced with illegal drugs such as cannabis and MDMA.
“Unregulated sweets like these are dangerous as we don’t know what levels of drugs they contain.
“They are available to buy on the internet and so could easily be obtained by young people, especially at this time when they are using the internet more than ever due to the coronavirus restrictions.”
Men aged between 17 and 24 have been arrested in yorkshire raids recently, when police found drugs, cash and phones at addresses. And, Bradford police also seized a large number of cannabis laced Nerds too recently.
A teen from yorkshire was even rushed into hospital last month, after eating one of the variations of Nerd sweets, that happened to be laced with amphetamine.
