Cannabis sweets 'marketed at children' are being packaged to look like bags of Haribo and Skittles before being sold on social media, an investigation has found.
Children as young as eight have been taken to hospital after eating the sweets laced with the Class B drug, police said. The investigation found the edibles were being sold for as little as £5 on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Snapchat, Wales Online reports.
Around a third of people arrested in relation to the sweets being sold in the east of England were under the age of 18, and there are concerns that the drugs are being used to lure children into trafficking drugs by county lines gangs, which are based in big cities but use youngsters to deliver and sell drugs to users in towns and rural areas.
