2024-01-13 11:51:00
A North Carolina child was rushed into the hospital after eating THC-laced candy that his mom thought was Skittles.
Catherine Butteriet said that she bought a bag of candy for her son that turned out to be Delta 9, a legal form of THC, local news station WSOC TV reported.
“I was terrified,” Buttereit said of her six-year-old son, who had ingested the edibles. “I thought I had killed my child.”
The boy had consumed 13 times an adult dosage of the THC-laced candy, the New York Post reported.
“He was in excruciating pain,” Buttereit told The Post.
The whole ordeal began Friday when her son was pointing at a bag of candy when they went for lunch at the Common Market in South End.
“He was pointing to something on the counter, but I was trying to order and pay,” the mother said, according to WSOC TV. “I was just like, what? And he’s like, ‘Look. They have freeze-dried Skittles.’”
“I was never asked for an ID. I was never informed of what I was purchasing,” Buttereit told the Post.
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Her son started feeling and acting strangely after he ate the candy.
“He grabs his head, and he said, ‘My mind is wobbly.’ And I was like, something in my mom-brain was like, there’s something wrong,” Buttereit said.
When her fiancé closely read the label, he discovered that it was Delta 9 candy.
The boy spent 6 hours in the ER at the hospital before he headed home.
A Common Market spokesperson said that staff is trained to inform and educate customers when buying THC-induced products, which are kept in a case or behind the counter.
As an increased precaution, staff at Common Market improved the signage system for those products.
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