'Edibles' are sold alongside heroin and cocaine online, as police warn children are taking and selling these drugged sweets.
Cannabis sweets packaged to look like bags of Haribo and Skittles are being widely sold and promoted on mainstream social media sites such as Instagram and Tik Tok, Sky News has found.
The cannabis sweets are routinely promoted and sold alongside class A drugs including heroin, cocaine and LSD, as well as large quantities of marijuana.One Telegram channel posted images of large bags of marijuana above boxes of gummies, as well as sheets of the Class A drug LSD While some products using CBD, a chemical found in cannabis, are currently on sale in shops across the country, these sweets are illegal and contain high levels of THC - which is the chemical in weed that gives a user"a high".Image:But some also appear to be homemade.
Those looking for"gummies uk" on TikTok were shown results mostly showing legal sweets but the app offers suggestions that point users to sweets offered by dealers. He said:"The way they are branded to look like sweets suggests they are being marketed at children, but worryingly also means that they could easily fall into the wrong hands.
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