Police have issued an urgent warning to thousands of Perth high school students after two children who ate gummy lollies ended up in hospital.
Another student at a western suburbs primary school was found today with gummy lollies thought to be laced with THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, police said.
“WA Police Force is urging any students from western suburbs schools who have purchased or been given gummy lollies in recent days to not ingest them,” police said in an urgent warning issued tonight.
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They said the two sick students, from the same western suburbs high school, were hospitalised yesterday.
Police are investigating where the lollies came from.
“If you have ingested a gummy lolly and are not feeling well, seek medical advice urgently,” they said.
“If you are in possession of any of the gummy lollies, do not ingest them.”
The warning came after three people were taken to hospital as a precaution after spitting out meth-laced lollies they had received in a food parcel in an unrelated incident in Auckland.
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In June this year, two varieties of Uncle Frog’s Mushroom Gummies were recalled after at least five people in NSW ended up in hospital, with some suffering “disturbing hallucinations”.
The recall was due to the presence of the unapproved novel food ingredients lion’s mane and cordyceps.
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