The New Halloween Trick-or-Treating Ecstasy/Candy Scare: A Rant


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So if I see one more stupid news article or Facebook post using scare tactics to warn Trick-or-Treaters about the dangers of ecstasy disguised as candy I am going to lose my mind. Are people really this naïve?

 

As far as I can tell, yes, there is a new flow of drugs that do happen to come in a rather candy-like shape.

 

But what in the world does this have to do with trick-or-treating? What mad jump of logic and reason was made to imply that a new shape of a drug means people are just waiting in anticipation for the Halloween weekend to drug kids? Are we so ridiculously paranoid to take two completely unrelated things, drugs and trick-or-treating, and stick them together for absolutely no reason? Has there been a recorded incident of this? What evidence is there to suggest people are plotting to pass out drugs?

 

There is simply no reason to do so.

 

1. If you're trying to set up a customer base for your drug-dealing operation, there are a lot better ways to go than passing out expensive drugs to kids with little to no money who will have no idea where they got the drugs or how to contact you.

 

2. Unless these candy drugs taste marvelous, I think any kid would just spit them out.

 

3. If you're hoping to get some weird thrill from watching a kid get high, well, the vast majority of trick-or-treaters don't eat the candy immediately upon receipt.

 

I'd say the greater danger is for teens and adults attending shady parties where there might be someone who actually wants to slip somebody drugs.

 

So, yeah, what a ridiculous fear. Is this going to go down in trick-or-treating lore with the razor blade apples and the poisoned candy?

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I googled and found a few sites.  Not sure on the rules about posting links, so hopefully this one is ok.

 

http://www.elitereaders.com/drug-laced-halloween-candies/

 

1 - Sure, that makes logical sense, unfortunately some people just want to watch the world burn.  Their form of burning could come from the knowledge that they were able to give kids drugs instead of real candy, and that is what the police in that link are warning about.

 

2 - Never tried these, so I have no clue, but I know many kids who will try A N Y  T H I N G.  It is amazing what kids will try.

 

3 - See 1.

 

Lets say its a .000000001% chance this is going to happen.  A parent ignores it, and their kid OD's.  I agree the chance of it happening is so rare we probably shouldn't worry about it.

 

P.S. - I mostly replied (with a link too!) due to the first line of your post :)

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Living in Oregon (where pot is now legal) I'm more concerned about the actions of idiotic parents as apparently pot comes in all sorts of "edibles" including gummy bears.  I think there is a much higher likelihood of some moronic parent leaving their edibles where a child could find them than there is of the trick or treat scenario.

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Living in Oregon (where pot is now legal) I'm more concerned about the actions of idiotic parents as apparently pot comes in all sorts of "edibles" including gummy bears. I think there is a much higher likelihood of some moronic parent leaving their edibles where a child could find them than there is of the trick or treat scenario.

In my neighborhood we just had an incident of Grandma allegedly accedently dropping her marijuana pipe into a student's school book baggie. Good grief, adults!

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There are cases of needles,razors, or drugs being put into candy to harm children, but overall it is not that common.

 

There is no need for parents and people to freak out, it also doesn't take too long to sort through candy for anything suspicious. I had an elderly lady in the most serious of tones warn me about this, who probably trusts a little too much what she sees on the internet.

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And then there's the anatess family where kids go out to trick-or-treat just to come home and pour the candy into the bowl that contains the candy that we hand out for trick-or-treat.  Holy awesome recycling, batman!

 

So kids come knocking on my door the next day asking me if I have more ecstasy...  hah hah.

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Just because something isn't common and is over-hyped and false stories are debunked, doesn't mean it hasn't happened or couldn't happen. Also notice, I wasn't talking about poisoned candy nor did I say it was common.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp

(Randomly gathered quickly from a web search)

http://www.fox8live.com/story/26602602/mother-terrified-after-needle-found-in-candy

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/community/holt/2014/11/04/police-investigate-needle-found-halloween-candy/18499647/

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Just because something isn't common and is over-hyped and false stories are debunked, doesn't mean it hasn't happened or couldn't happen. Also notice, I wasn't talking about poisoned candy nor did I say it was common.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp

(Randomly gathered quickly from a web search)

http://www.fox8live.com/story/26602602/mother-terrified-after-needle-found-in-candy

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/community/holt/2014/11/04/police-investigate-needle-found-halloween-candy/18499647/

Not sure why you're arguing. Not my intent. Just sharing a link.

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Sadly, I can tell you from first-hand experience that foreign objects do sometimes make their way into food.

For example, a few years ago one of my brothers bought a bag of gummi bears from a local convenience store. The bag was factory-sealed and showed no signs of tampering, yet when he opened the bag we discovered that some of the bears had wood splinters inside of them. This means that something broke apart at the factory and quality control didn't stop things before the bag got out the door.

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