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No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It
No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It Halloween 2021 is bringing the usual warnings from authorities to be on the lookout for nefarious strangers giving kids pot edibles that look like candy -- but how much of it is (a) based in reality and how much is (b) fear mongering? The answers: (a) none of it and (b) all of it. The true danger lies in people believing urban legends, says Snopes.com, a site dedicated to debunking them.  “You are more likely to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times than you are to find marijuana edibles in your children’s Halloween candy,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told Marijuana …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles? Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles?
Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles? Halloween 2021 is bringing the usual nationwide warnings from authorities to be on the lookout for nefarious strangers giving kids pot edibles that look like candy -- but how much of it is (a) based in reality and how much is (b) fear mongering? The answers: (a) none of it and (b) all of it. The true danger lies in people believing urban legends, says Snopes.com, a site dedicated to debunking them.  “You are more likely to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times than you are to find marijuana edibles in your children’s Halloween candy,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Child Welfare Authorities Probe House Party Suspected In Bergen High School COVID-19 Outbreak Child Welfare Authorities Probe House Party Suspected In Bergen High School COVID-19 Outbreak
Child Welfare Authorities Probe House Party Suspected In Bergen High School Covid-19 Outbreak State child welfare authorities are investigating a reported incident that occurred at a Harrington Park house party that preceded a COVID-19 outbreak among at least a dozen students at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan. Harrington Park Police Chief Albert Malouf said Tuesday that he couldn’t confirm allegations that a 15-year-old boy who attended the Tappan Road bash on March 13 passed out after consuming a marijuana edible. “The juvenile in question was reported to have been picked up by a parent prior to the officers' arrival,” March 13, the chief said. Police were unab…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles
Six Busted When Paterson Raid Turns Up Gun, Illegal Magazine, THC, Edibles Paterson drug detectives found a handgun, a high-capacity magazine and an assortment of pot-related contraband – including dozens of THC cartridges and nearly three pounds of edibles – while arresting six people, authorities said. They also seized a reported $3,361 in suspected drug cash in a raid on a first-floor Union Avenue apartment, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Friday. Arrested were residents Christian “Bris” Morales, 27, and Aurelia Radovic, 25, along with visitors Ahmed Yasin, 24, and Angela Dalba, 23, both of Clifton, Speziale said. All were charged with possession of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy' Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy'
Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy' A drug buy witnessed by detectives in Newark Thursday led to four arrests as well as the seizure of marijuana edibles with a street value of about $30,000, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. Plainclothes sheriff’s officers were conducting surveillance at Broadway and Bloomfield Place as part of an ongoing operation to stop drug trafficking in Newark’s North Ward. The sheriff’s office says Louis Roselle, 36, of Newark, was standing at 95 Broadway when a Ford Edge approached and a man got out. Roselle handed the man -- 21-year-old Patrick Caloway of Morristown -- two green bags in e…

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by Paul Milo
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POLICE: Fair Lawn Teen Charged After Giving Classmates Pot Gummy Bears That Made One Sick POLICE: Fair Lawn Teen Charged After Giving Classmates Pot Gummy Bears That Made One Sick
Police: Fair Lawn Teen Charged After Giving Classmates Pot Gummy Bears That Made One Sick A 13-year-old from Fair Lawn is accused of giving her classmates marijuana gummy bears after one of her peers said it made her sick, authorities said. A 14-year-old female was taken to the The Valley Hospital last Friday after vomiting multiple times from one of the gummy bears given to her at school by a classmate, who told her it would "stop her from stressing out," Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. An investigation found that the gummy was a marijuana was determined to be a marijuana edible after the victim was tested at the hospital, Metzler said. Jeffrey Klein, 48 of Fair…

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by Cecilia Levine