Nottinghamshire dealers imitate snack brands to sell cannabis

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They've been mixed with fly spray and rat poison, police said 🤢 Dealers are creating packaging imitating well-known snack brands to get young people in Nottinghamshire to take cannabis, officers have warned Read more:

Drug dealers are creating packaging imitating well-known snack brands to get young people to take cannabis, police have warned.

The force warned tests on some of the snacks had shown they included traces of rat poison and detergent.Officers said cannabis was still the "number one recreational drug" in Nottinghamshire and they were clamping down on dealers who target young people.

"The cannabis market is evolving and those who sell this drug are trying to get one foot ahead of us."Police are concerned about dealers' efforts to target young people with drug-laced sweets "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."That has now risen to more than £20m a year.

 

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Yes 'kids', who are well known for buying their crisps and sweets from shady blokes people in car parks.

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