Long Beach school officials issue warning about THC-laced cookies packaged as popular favorites

You’ll want to double-check that wrapper whereas buying subsequent time as a result of packs of what seem like standard snacks are popping up on cabinets which might be laced with THC.

In response to the Lengthy Seaside Public Faculties, the cannabis-laced cookies are being offered at shops proper on the town.

Lengthy Seaside mother and father say they’re on excessive alert after studying the cookies are in shops within the space.

The packaging makes them look identical to standard manufacturers you’d discover within the grocery store however with barely totally different names. So as an alternative of Chips Ahoy, the package deal says Journeys Ahoy, and the favored Oreos are packaged as Stoneo.

Dad and mom say it is harmful as a result of you do not know what’s in there.

The warning got here in a message to households from the Lengthy Seaside superintendent who wrote, “I’m certain you might be as horrified as I’m on the approach these are clearly focusing on youngsters and younger individuals. My nightmare is that younger youngsters may eat these with out even realizing what they’re.”

The superintendent additionally shared a information article from Canada that states a younger boy was hospitalized after consuming comparable cookies.

Habit specialist Jeffrey Reynolds, with Household and Youngsters’s Affiliation, says merchandise like these are particularly dangerous to youngsters.

“After we’re speaking about youngsters, we’re speaking about creating brains,” says Reynolds. “We’re speaking about creating physique elements and organs and the potential for poisoning could be very important. The opportunity of long-term harm is within the combine.”

Leisure marijuana nonetheless cannot be offered legally in New York, however the cookies are constituted of hemp, which is technically authorized proper now.