Police are warning parents of candy and chips that are infused with THC, but have very similar packaging to the origina

[riversedge]

OMG!!

Police are warning parents of candy and chips that are infused with THC, but have very similar packaging to the originals. NBC News' Adrienne Broaddus has more on the warning and what to look for ahead of the holiday.

Oct. 28, 2025
Police warn of look-a-like candy infused with THC ahead of Halloween
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/police-warn-of-look-a-like-candy-infused-with-thc-ahead-of-halloween-250869829918 via @nbcnews

[lame54]

1. Drugs are expensive...

Nobody gives them away

Every year we have to listen to this shit

[-misanthroptimist]

2. Such candies are clearly labeled with a backwards "B"

[HAB911]

3. Reefer Madness!

[Torchlight]

4. Handing-out-pot stories are 50% more believable than

the 'rainbow fentanyl' hysterics coworkers were engaging in a few years past. "It really happened! I heard it somewhere on Facebook!!!"

[haele]

13. Well, my daughter was over at a friend's house last year when they were running low on candy ..

And her very stoned friend decided to refill the bowl with starburst singles, and grabbed the wrong bag by mistake.
Kidlet realized the bag was too small before they poured too many in, but they still spent 10 minutes picking out the wrong candy before they gave up and got someone halfway sober to drive down to the Thrifty and get more candy.
It can happen.

[Torchlight]

15. When I waited tables at Bennigan's in 85, I recieved two joints as a tip

The fentanyl stories were a collective narrative of unsupported assertions rather than examples of isolated aberrations as are ours.

[haele]

16. Agreed. Last year's Fenty-panic BS is like the rainbow LSD paper dots

Of my youth.
"Don't accept any of those candy dot papers; watch out for Pixie Stixs..."
Just has to happen one time halfway across the country, and suddenly there's a dealer in every neighborhood that's out to corrupt the kids!

[Prairie Gates]

5. Not the ole razor blade in the apple or the crack cocaine in the Nerds again!

Oy vey.

Really playing the classics.

[Zorro]

6. Wasn't this last year's scare headline?

[BlueTsunami2018]

7. Ah, this old canard rearing its ugly head again.

Nobody gives away free drugs. Ever.

I’ve heard about this mythical pusher my whole life and never once has anyone just given me free shit. I’m still kind of salty about that.

[ms liberty]

14. This. This right here is the answer

[durablend]

8. Nobody's giving that away at $5-10 a pop

[GusBob]

9. Must be Halloween or somesuch

These stories come out every year. What was it last year? Meth gummies or something

[Ms. Toad]

10. That's the main reason Ohio banned the sale of intoxicating THC infused products..

Look-alike packaging was sending kids to the hospital. It looked to them like the candy they were used to eating.

[Gore1FL]

11. This shit again...

There's no fear like an old fear.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Reefer madness crapola.

Coming from the usual sources on this platform as well. 🙄

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. cops gotta stay relevant somehow

[MaineBlueBear]

18. Who would do such a thing?!

And may I have their address? Asking for a friend...

[xmas74]

19. Ain't nobody wasting their money

Giving strange kids weed gummies. They aren't cheap.

[Stacey Grove]

20. This reminds me of the days of Leonard Nimoy

hosting "In Search Of" with episodes about Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, Loch Ness Sea Monster, UFOs, Spontaneous Human Combustion.

[AStern]

21. Who would waste their time and money to do such a thing?

[ProfessorGAC]

22. At Least They're Properly Labeled

Makes a bit easier for parents to screen.
Thing is, with that slick packaging, are they setting themselves up for legal action by the manufacturers of the original product, or is this those same big companies dipping their toes in cannabis?
That said, it's hard to believe this will be a widespread problem.
A 14 ounce bag of Jolly Rancher gummies in $4.57 at Walmart.
Around here, THC gummies are $14 for 10 of them. Trying to pass these off to kids would be a serious monetary commitment that carries the risk of prison.