Drug candy and other threats to your life ...
It is, alas, the last day for my experiment on things that could be fatal and things that could kill you. I'm planning to post report on my findings in a few days, but need to get out from under a pile of work first. So without further ado...The following could kill you:
Tetanus (registration required)
"Wearing trendy flip-flops"
The following could be fatal:
Your morning workout
Drug candy (!!!!!!!!!!!)
Relocating
A trap, to a cop
Refrigerator company Kelon not delivering
Ingesting the chemicals used in manganese ore recovery
Cholera
Ingesting large quantities of chocolate (subscription required)
Any error, when landing a space shuttle
Losing concentration while wandering in the Egyptian desert
Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria (registration required)
Klebsiella
OK, it seems to me that a bit more exploration is required for this mysterious "drug candy." According to the Albuquerque Fox affiliate news web site, which you know isn't going to get hysterical or anything:
It looks like a piece of chewy caramel candy. But inside, it's a dangerous drug that could be fatal especially to children. Police in Santa Fe are concerned about the possibility that the "drug candy" which is made with hallucinogenic mushrooms is circulating around the Santa Fe area. Psilocybin mushrooms, and digital scales are common finds for Santa Fe police during drug busts. But candy? "That raised a red flag right there." A red flag because police realized the "worther's original chewy caramels" were laced with shrooms. They say each piece of confiscated candy contains a gram of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic drug that can alter people's minds. With a street value of ten bucks per candy piece police say the eight baggies they took are worth 15-hundred dollars. "It's a money making business for these drug dealers." They learned the drug dealers used coffee grinders to create their concoction. "They grind down the drug real fine, almost into a powder form, then what they do is get the candy and melt it down to liquid form, then they mix the two together." Creating this, a greenish replica, which police are told tastes exactly like the real candy. They say that's the real problem. "If a child were to get a hold of these and take several at one time it could be fatal." Police can't release a lot of details on the bust because they're still trying to figure out how widespread the problem is. But they say the bust happened at an apartment complex on the city's west-side. Parents we spoke to say they're just as concerned as police. "It just sort of blows me away, amazing what they'll come up with." "It's not only deadly it's just irresponsible, I don't know what its come to sometimes."
Wondering what all this talk of death is about? See my original post.

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