A warning has been issued about LSD-laced sweets - amid fears they could pose a risk to clubbers.
The National Crime Agency has issued an alert after an ongoing investigation led to the seizure of liquid LSD in the Manchester area - enough to make 5,000 hard-boiled sweets.
The NCA believes the LSD - known colloquially as acid - is being put into hard boiled sweets to avoid arousing suspicion from door and security staff at entertainment venues.
It's thought the sweets are being marketed towards the student community in particular.
The NCA said the alert was "the result of intelligence gained during an ongoing criminal investigation, and follows a seizure of almost half a litre of liquid LSD in the Manchester area".
"We are asking that staff at entertainment venues be vigilant and consider refusing entry to customers or groups of customers carrying small amounts of such sweets," it said.
"Students should also be wary of anyone offering them drugs in this form."
It added that there was an added danger of the drugs being concealed in this manner, in that would lead to them being unknowingly taken by children.
LSD is a class A drug, which can be harmul to the user, and it can lead to adverse psychiatric reactions such as anxiety, paranoia, and delusions.
It's typically taken orally but can be injected.
It's well known for its psychological effects, which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open-eye visuals, synesthesia, time-shifting and spiritual experiences and it played a key role in 1960s counterculture.
Source: Mirror
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