After Years of Warnings, Trick-or-Treater in Canada Given Weed Edibles Instead of Halloween Candy – News

Lead photo via Victoria Police

For years media outlets and police in North America have been using the mid-October news cycle to scare parents about the prospect of ill-minded potheads giving cannabis-infused edibles to trick-or-treaters, replacing Kit Kats with Kiva Confections.

In the decade or so since police officials have felt it necessary to project the absurd warning, no parent or cop has actually reported finding magic brownies in their child’s candy bag, with most rational outlets taking time last week to firmly debunk the still prevalent rumor.

But, alas, there’s a first time for everything. A post-fright night press release from the Victoria Police Department in British Columbia claims that a local child in the city’s James Bay neighborhood was given a package of candies labeled “Twisted Extracts Black Cherry Zzz Bomb” that touted eight, 10 mg doses of THC.

Understandably, the parents of the canna-candy recipient were far from…

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