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Watch out for pot-infused candy

According to a news report by KENS-TV5 in San Antonio, a new way to get high on dope is making its way into the hands of children.

Yeah. Children.

Drug-infused candy.

Yeah. Candy.

It is a hard, rough-edged, green candy
Candies are sold for between $1 and $5
Candy is molded into shapes (a skull)
Apparently odorless, are very hard to detect

In the video clip below, Gresham (Texas) Police Officer Rick Blake indicated that these weed-infused candies are becoming all the rage among high school kids.

“We haven’t experienced anything like this up until about a month ago... ever since then it’s starting to increase in its popularity,” Blake said.

Check out the video and pick up on the rest of this column below.

All About Interdiction
While the words ‘insidious’ and ‘evil’ spring immediately to mind, so do the words ‘interdiction’ and ‘detection.’

Via a mutual friend, I got an inquiry from a law enforcer in the midwest who asked the question, “Can you ask around to see if anyone has come across this yet, and if anyone knows if a dope dog would hit on it?”

Well? Have you seen this stuff in your jurisdiction?

If so, please send any/all intel you have on it to druginfusedcandy@policeone.com, which will direct to the LEOs who sent me the inquiry, as well as to my own inbox. Once more information has been made available, I will post an updated version of this tip.

That, or you can simply share your thoughts in the comments below. Note that I’ve made this item secure, LEO-only, despite the fact that all the information I’m posting is open source. My expectation here is that the comments and the emails will contain the LEO-only “candy” that will help to stem the tide of this new drug distribution method.

Doug Wyllie writes police training content on a wide range of topics and trends affecting the law enforcement community. Doug was a co-founder of the Policing Matters podcast and a longtime co-host of the program.