![]() ![]() He updates his report on the topic every year. 11, 2001, for example, there were rumours of secret terrorists giving out cupcakes with propaganda written on them.īest has been researching and documenting contemporary legends about “Halloween sadism” since 1985. “If there’s a bad thing that happens in September that captures people attention,” Best says, it can fuel a particularly lively panic. ![]() The calls started coming earlier than usual, he says, possibly because the circumstances are ideal for a viral Halloween scare. ![]() **ATTENTION** The Johnstown Police would like to draw extra attention to the Nerds Rope edibles containing 400mg of THC.Posted by Johnstown Police Department on Thursday, October 10, 2019īest has so far been interviewed 10 times on the subject this year. Even though the post doesn’t say that police believe anyone actually intended to hand out candy like this to kids (the department told Rolling Stone that it never made that assumption), the Facebook post was picked up by a wave of local news outlets, then national ones, which echoed the department’s warning to parents about the threat of bad strangers who wanted to give your kids THC. This time, the police in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, warned people that “drug laced edibles are package (sic) like regular candy and may be hard to distinguish from the real candy” and urged parents to check their kid’s hauls for edibles containing THC. Photo by Getty Images/Stock Article contentĪ semi-viral Facebook post from a Pennsylvania police department has become the latest example of an exhausting Halloween tradition: The spread of super-scary - but largely unfounded - warnings about poisoned Halloween candy. Join the conversation This year's scary health headlines about vaping THC may have created fertile conditions for worries about drug-laced Halloween candies to take root.
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