Police in Florida are alerting parents to the danger that chocolate bars laced with magic mushrooms pose to their young children due to their bright packaging.
In a recent narcotics investigation, the Winter Haven Police Department, which is located east of Tampa, discovered 10 of these chocolate bars.
Officers discovered these bars, which they believe to be from California, while carrying out a search warrant at a meth lab, according to FOX 13.
Although the Winter Haven Police Department has said that they have not yet received any complaints of youngsters devouring the bars, it is still unknown if the drug traffickers intended to sell the candy bars that were laced with drugs.
However, police are now advising parents to speak to their kids about the danger because they are concerned that kids could be persuaded to consume the sweets.
Police Chief David Brannan told FOX 13 that “[they are] trying to make it appear like it is something that is not at all harmful.”
Getting individuals addicted to their goods is what drug traffickers want to do, so they can keep making sales.
How do magic mushrooms work?
Magic mushrooms, sometimes known as “shrooms,” are fungi that contain psilocybin, a psychoactive and hallucinogenic substance.
These’magic mushrooms’ may raise blood pressure and pulse rate when consumed.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, they may also result in ‘an inability to distinguish imagination from reality’ as well as nausea, vomiting, hallucinations, or delusions.
According to federal law, the substance is prohibited in the US.
However, these so-called “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms” really contain psilocybin, a psychoactive and hallucinogenic substance that may raise blood pressure and heart rate.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, they may also result in ‘an inability to distinguish imagination from reality’ as well as nausea, vomiting, hallucinations, or delusions.
Because of this, the federal government has classified “magic mushrooms” as a Schedule 1 substance, which indicates that it “has a high potential for abuse, no presently acknowledged medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of recognised safety for use under medical supervision.”
Psilocybin, however, may have therapeutic benefits when administered in modest amounts, according to studies.
Even though the selling of psilocybin is still regarded as a crime under the California Health and Safety Code, officials in Oakland, California, chose to legalise naturally occurring psychedelics like magic mushrooms.
But today, according to The San Francisco Standard, buying a chocolate bar filled with dried psilocybe cubenesis mushrooms is as easy as taking your car to one of the seven Oakland stores listed on the website Bliss Mushrooms and paying $45, they say.
The website offers a selection of psilocybin-infused chocolate bars including The Firecracker and the Scarlett “Ruby Couverture” as well as the Holy Grail, which is marketed as being particularly strong, as well as microdose “shroom” capsules at Oakland smoke shops.
In the meanwhile, advertisements for fentanyl-laced candy may be seen on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat.
The Placer County District Attorney’s Office in California revealed last week that ‘rainbow’ fentanyl is spreading across the area utilising these social media applications to entice children.
To be clear, any fentanyl obtained off the street is lethal, regardless of its colour, shape, size, or form, according to a statement from Assistant District Attorney Dave Tellman.
However, we discover that one of the various methods used by sellers to make the poison appealing to our children is this rainbow-colored material.
When executing a search warrant at a suspect’s residence on August 16, Multnomah County Sheriff’s officers made their first discovery of rainbow fentanyl there.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, “Deputies are especially worried about rainbow fentanyl coming into the hands of young individuals or children, who mistake the drug for something else, such as candy or a toy, or others who may be ready to try the poison because of its fun coloration.”
Deputies’ discovery of powdered fentanyl during the raid, it was stated, “resembles the hue and substance of sidewalk chalk.”
Additionally, on August 29, rainbow fentanyl tablets that were trying to enter the nation were intercepted in Arizona by US Customs and Border Control officers.
According to experts, the new colouring is an attempt to get young kids hooked.
According to Kelly Sloop, executive director of Need 4 Narcan, “there is this new rainbow-colored fentanyl because the drug traffickers and drug cartels are attempting to reinvent the wheel to find another way to appeal to adolescents and young people.”
Her remarks paralleled those of DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, who said that drug traffickers intentionally try to get youngsters and young people addicted.
The Mexican drug cartels, who are in charge of the great bulk of the fentanyl being trafficked in the United States, are being defeated by the men and women of the DEA, who are fighting tirelessly to halt the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl.
For Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, the substance is now the leading cause of mortality.
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