Nick Berry Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Might be fake news? Drug dealers are creating packaging imitating well-known snack brands to get young people to take cannabis, police have warned. Nottinghamshire Police said criminals were increasingly lacing or injecting the drug into cookies, cakes, sweets and chocolate to try to evade arrest. The force warned tests on some of the snacks had shown they included traces of rat poison and detergent. It said it had incinerated a record £90m of seized drugs this year. Officers said cannabis was still the "number one recreational drug" in Nottinghamshire and they were clamping down on dealers who target young people. Fly spray David Richardson, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: "There is a current trend where they are putting cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) into cookies, cakes, chocolates, and sweets but they have been mixed with other nasty things such as fly spray and one test came back with traces of rat poison. "We are getting what we describe as cannabis edibles on a weekly basis. "People have started doing their own and are more aware of how to do it through social media. "We had one case where a woman from Nottinghamshire was making cannabis cakes for her own circle of friends. "The cannabis market is evolving and those who sell this drug are trying to get one foot ahead of us." "They think officers will assume they are just carrying chocolate bars or crisps, but on closer inspection we know that is not the case. "The problem, and concern for us as a force is innocent people get involved and children could be attracted to it. We don't want that to happen." The force said the combined street value of all the cannabis seized was around £6m in 2016. That has now risen to more than £20m a year. On average 300 to 500 drug items pass through the force's archive and exhibits department a week, including heroin, crack cocaine, amphetamine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis edibles and cannabis plants. Mr Richardson added: "Cannabis is not getting worse - we are just getting better at finding the drugs. These teams are squeezing the drugs market and are massively proactive. "We thought we might experience a dip during the pandemic, but we have not had that. We have just got busie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigs Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 32 minutes ago, Nick Berry said: "The cannabis market is evolving and those who sell this drug are trying to get one foot ahead of us." 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaMelter Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Well there's a website selling them so..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigid aikon Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 43 minutes ago, Nick Berry said: we are just getting better at finding the drugs. So they've finally realised in 2022 that people sometimes eat cannabis 44 minutes ago, Nick Berry said: "We had one case where a woman from Nottinghamshire was making cannabis cakes for her own circle of friends. I know a woman that was doing that in the 80's and it wasn't new then. If enough of us carried wrappers like the ones in the photo above but with normal (cannabis-free) products in them we could bottleneck their drug testing labs in no time... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tupacker Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 While over in Toronto you can order weed with your food Uber eats here in the uk still in the dark ages who would of thought you can cook with cannabis well I never 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Nick Berry said: They think officers will assume they are just carrying chocolate bars or crisps, but on closer inspection we know that is not the case. The bit where it states weed is medication by any chance? Surely a promotion to detective is in order for these sharp eyed officers 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilled artist Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 what.... like alco-pops......!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigid aikon Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I'm surprised they didn't crop the second photo to hide the part where it says: "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT IS FOR ADULTS ONLY! KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN". That doesn't fit their narrative at all. 2 hours ago, Nick Berry said: Drug dealers are creating packaging imitating well-known snack brands to get young people to take cannabis, police have warned. 2 hours ago, Nick Berry said: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lux_Interior Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Boojum said: Yep. Quick polish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbillybob Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 im still wondering how you would inject weed into sweets? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.o.i.n.t Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I've had some of them - the nerds and the jelly tots.... bit meh, but was over due a break I think. So, yeah, not fake news. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clean Green Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 What do they think will happen? A lot of people are travelling to countries that have re-normalised. Headline should be more like ‘UK’s delayed cannabis decriminalisation leading to inferior products and increase in potential harms to all users including children’. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylant Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 10,000 years of medical history means nothing to these politicians and yet an untested vaccine can be rushed through using emergency legislation in months ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simple Jack Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 5 hours ago, badbillybob said: im still wondering how you would inject weed into sweets? You have to dissolve it in rat poison or fly spray. I learnt this on social media 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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