Worried About Marijuana-Infused Halloween Candy? There’s a Kit for That.

In a recent
column, I noted the lack of evidence that people try to
get kids high on Halloween by passing off cannabis candy as
ordinary treats. The Denver Police Department’s inability to cite a
single actual example of such a prank in Colorado or anywhere else
has not stopped it from warning parents about the possibility, over
and over again. With Halloween approaching, the department has been

hyping this mythical menace on its Facebook page, building
on the alarm generated by the podcast and

video it produced on the subject. Recently the Pueblo Police
Department
joined the fear mongering.

Police in both cities urge parents to be on the alert for candy
that looks unfamilar or seems to have been tampered with. But such
precautions hardly seem adequate in dealing with a determined
cannabis concealer, who could always rewrap marijuana-infused
treats in familiar packaging or dose conventional candy with
store-bought tincture. For parents who worry about such
trickery, CB
Scientific has a solution: a  kit that you can use to
quickly test
Halloween treats for cannabis.

The Denver-based company, which should be paying a
commission to the cops in Denver and Pueblo, sells
the kits for $15 each. But each kit can be used to test only three
samples, so the cost of screening every tiny chocolate bar,
jawbreaker, and jelly bean can quickly add up. It would be
considerably cheaper just to throw out the entire haul and buy your
kid replacement candy, although you can never be completely sure
that no one has tampered with the stuff at the store either. As far
as we know, it has never happened. But it’s possible!