Parents urged to check kids' Halloween candy
Tuesday, 30 October 2007

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has sent out a warning after finding tainted candy during a recent narcotic investigation.

Kathryn Janicek from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said the Southwest Hennepin Drug Task Force obtained the candies in a controlled drug buy, and the investigation is still ongoing.

Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said, “With Halloween this week, it’s important to warn parents of this potentially dangerous candy. If a child eats a small amount of this candy, it’s equivalent to smoking four very potent marijuana cigarettes.”

The drug-laced chocolates and caramels were found wrapped in either tinfoil or waxed paper, and were not in manufactured wrappers.

According to the press release, they were laced with Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is extracted from marijuana by boiling the plants. The THC becomes oily during the boiling process and rises to the top of the water, where it is skimmed off and cooled to create a paste similar to butter, and is commonly referred to as “budder”. This “budder” can then be cooked into foods such as brownies, caramels and chocolates.

“This is a very sophisticated way of getting drugs into candy,” Janicek said.

The chocolates are thick and heavy and can be found molded into shapes such as hearts, star, lips and marijuana leaves. The caramels look very similar to regular ones, only a little stickier.

Parents are advised to inform their children about the drug-laced candy and to make sure all candy is checked before consumption.

http://erstarnews.com/content/view/1436/94/

Parents urged to check kids' Halloween candy
Tuesday, 30 October 2007

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has sent out a warning after finding tainted candy during a recent narcotic investigation.

Kathryn Janicek from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said the Southwest Hennepin Drug Task Force obtained the candies in a controlled drug buy, and the investigation is still ongoing.

Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said, “With Halloween this week, it’s important to warn parents of this potentially dangerous candy. If a child eats a small amount of this candy, it’s equivalent to smoking four very potent marijuana cigarettes.”

The drug-laced chocolates and caramels were found wrapped in either tinfoil or waxed paper, and were not in manufactured wrappers.

According to the press release, they were laced with Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is extracted from marijuana by boiling the plants. The THC becomes oily during the boiling process and rises to the top of the water, where it is skimmed off and cooled to create a paste similar to butter, and is commonly referred to as “budder”. This “budder” can then be cooked into foods such as brownies, caramels and chocolates.

“This is a very sophisticated way of getting drugs into candy,” Janicek said.

The chocolates are thick and heavy and can be found molded into shapes such as hearts, star, lips and marijuana leaves. The caramels look very similar to regular ones, only a little stickier.

Parents are advised to inform their children about the drug-laced candy and to make sure all candy is checked before consumption.

http://erstarnews.com/content/view/1436/94/

*waves hand wildly*

Pick me, pick me... I wanna be a candy tester!!!

:lolhit:

This is really odd.

I wonder what the motive was--just sheer meanness?

Or was the candy just intended for adults?

It seems on the surface the perpetrators went to a lot of trouble--to hand out candy to kids they didn't even know...I cannot believe it was intended for children....strangers.

Every year we hear about poisoned candy and razor blades in apples. As far as I know, not one legitimate case of genuine poisoning by such a method has ever been documented. These stories are urban legends--except for the case in Houston, the notorious "Candyman" who deliberately poisoned his own son by putting cyanide in Pixie Stix in an attempt to make it look like the poor lad had gotten the bad candy from strangers by trick or treating.

It took the detectives about 20 minutes to realize the Dad was responsible---merely by ascertaining how much insurance the boy was carrying--a lot.

Exactly where did you say this was???? I might need to investigate further.

Exactly where did you say this was???? I might need to investigate further.

Find out and I'll pick you up on the way, Kimi. Sounds like a 2-woman job to me.

:hula:

There is no way someone would go through all that cost,loss of product,and time to hand out budder candy to a bunch of kids.

I mean worst case scenario a bunch of hyped up kids on a sugar rush might mellow out a bit,watch some cartoons and go to sleep...

If someone wanted to harm kids they wouldn't be using weed.... or drugs at all.. they cost too much to produce and/or buy... they would just use run of the mill rat poison soaked in bleach.

Oh man, now I really wanna go trick or treating.

Find out and I'll pick you up on the way, Kimi. Sounds like a 2-woman job to me.

:hula:

Yeah, you're right...and we're the two women they need.

Oh man, now I really wanna go trick or treating.

Yeah, but first we have to find out where! See what you can find out, SMW and I will come by and get you.

she'd probably be coming to get you Kimi as this was out of Ohio.
I'll give you a head start then meet you there:thumbs:

Somebody has a whole lot of weed to waste if they're boiling it & making candy. This sounds more like some trumped up urban legend in the making.

This is really odd.

I wonder what the motive was--just sheer meanness?

Or was the candy just intended for adults?

It seems on the surface the perpetrators went to a lot of trouble--to hand out candy to kids they didn't even know...I cannot believe it was intended for children....strangers.

Every year we hear about poisoned candy and razor blades in apples. As far as I know, not one legitimate case of genuine poisoning by such a method has ever been documented. These stories are urban legends--except for the case in Houston, the notorious "Candyman" who deliberately poisoned his own son by putting cyanide in Pixie Stix in an attempt to make it look like the poor lad had gotten the bad candy from strangers by trick or treating.

It took the detectives about 20 minutes to realize the Dad was responsible---merely by ascertaining how much insurance the boy was carrying--a lot.

knowing cops follow the money first, killing someone you know is just stooopid.

she'd probably be coming to get you Kimi as this was out of Ohio.Not quite -- the Dayton from the link is Dayton, MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. I heard this story on the radio today and thought it would be fun to post, so I looked it up.

I would be completely shocked to find out this stuff was meant to be given as Halloween candy. Each piece the equivalent of four joints? What is that, $20 or $30 a pop? Not very many potheads I know would throw that kind of money around.

How many grams are in a joint? I always smoke from pipes or bongs...

How many grams are in a joint? I always smoke from pipes or bongs...

If your rolling correctly i would say you can get two paper rolled joints from a gram... If your using cigar paper i would say one gram per joint.

Ah, okay... then four joints would be 2 grams... So $20-$30 or so. Depends what kind I suppose.

Not quite -- the Dayton from the link is Dayton, MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. I heard this story on the radio today and thought it would be fun to post, so I looked it up.




whoops.....thanks for clearing that up Sedan.:thumbs:

I wouldn't worry too much about kids getting tainted candy. Despite all the scare warnings every year I don't think there has ever been a documented case of a kid dying from poisoned candy or cutting his/her mouth on a razor blade loaded apple.

I wouldn't worry too much about kids getting tainted candy. Despite all the scare warnings every year I don't think there has ever been a documented case of a kid dying from poisoned candy or cutting his/her mouth on a razor blade loaded apple.


hhmmm.....I've never directly heard of those things happening but as a parent with kids young enough to still go trick or treating I watch for and heed the warnings and still check their candy. It's just common sense to me seeing as people can and will be idiots just for the sake of it.

Of course I would not let my children eat any homemade candies or candies in wrappers other than those from the factory (unless from very good friends/relatives). There is always some risk anyways, but who is that paranoid?