8-year-old Na’eem Abdul-Salaam said he went to Mikes Fish And Chicken in Covington and thought he was buying his favorite candy nerds. Abdul-Salaam’s family said the restaurant actually sold the child a THC gummy.
The Ohio Department of Commerce’s recently-created Division of Cannabis Control has issued a consumer alert after federal agencies sent cease and desist letters to several companies that make Delta-8 edibles packaged in ways that resemble popular children’s snack foods.
According to a press release from the FTC, the cease and desist letters were sent to five different companies that manufacture the edibles; none are based in the Tri-State, but similar products are sold in the region.
Last summer, an 8-year-old boy in Northern Kentucky was hospitalized after eating a Delta-8 gummy believing it was candy. The child was able to purchase a product called "Nerdy Bears" that came in packaging that very closely resembled the packaging for Nerds Rope, which is candy. One single gummy bear was 10 servings. Chris Brown shows a photo of the THC gummy, called "Medicated Nerdy Bears," which is designed in packaging closely resembling a Nerds Rope, which is candy. One of the recent cease and desist letters sent by the FTC went to Life Leaf Medical CBD Center in South Carolina specifically over the business’s sale of "a Delta-8 THC product that strongly resembles Nerds Rope candy, with both products comprising multi-colored crunchy candies attached to a gummy rope."
There have been multiple other instances of children in the Greater Cincinnati region being sickened or hospitalized after consuming Delta-8 or THC-laced products this year alone.
In February, two Colerain Middle School students were taken to the hospital after principal Ali Moore said they’d eaten "cannabis-infused gummy bears."
Two months later, in Westwood, four children accidentally ate THC-laced candy at a YMCA camp. Those children were not hospitalized, but guardians of the children were called to pick them up.
In May, a Boone County man and woman were arrested and charged with wanton endangerment after a 4-year-old girl was found unconscious after eating a THC gummy.
Other products cited by the FTC as too closely […]
Federal agencies call out companies making Delta-8 products that resemble kids’ treats
