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No One Puts Drugs In Halloween Candy
Applying basic common sense to ridiculous claims
It’s Halloween, and the internet is once again abuzz with candy-related discussion. People are hotly debating whether sugar is killing children, or what the best method is to keep sex offenders away from your kids. And amid this lively debate, the perennial topic of the holiday has once again reared its ugly head: are young trick-or-treaters in danger of being poisoned by drugs slipped into their candy?
This year, the panic has focused on so-called “rainbow fentanyl”, a scare kicked off by the US Drug Enforcement Administration that was made worse when a person tried to smuggle fentanyl pills concealed in candy wrappers. This then lead to headlines everywhere warning parents that they should check candy in case someone had sneaked pharmaceuticals into their children’s Halloween winnings.
But in reality, despite the yearly media hubbub, is that there are almost certainly no drugs in your child’s sweet treats. Let’s look at the evidence.
