With THC products legal to buy in New York, there's concern they'll unknowingly end up in trick-or-treat bags.
FAMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Nassau Police had a treat for school children on Monday. They visited dressed as superheroes, but they also delivered a serious message to parents about potential dangers of Halloween. Officials are concerned about legal cannabis products ending up in candy bags. A spooky fog couldn't hide the smiles at the Woodward Parkway School, where real-life superheroes, Nassau County police officers, treated elementary kids to a Halloween preview of their dreams.
'There are some people out there that are real idiots and they think it's funny to give somebody a cannabis edible without telling them, and it's not funny. Those people can end up in the emergency room and it can be very dangerous,' said Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. There's been a spike in accidental cannabis ingesting in the form of gummies, including more than 800 hundred hospital visits in Nassau, up 20-fold from five years ago.
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