Smart Colorado sponsored these billboards in Denver to caution parents about the potential of marijuana-infused candies in their kids' trick-or-treating hauls this Halloween. (Smart Colorado)

We’re more likely to catch Ebola than to receive pot-laced Halloween candy

You’re more likely to contract Ebola in the U.S. than you are to get marijuana-laced candy in your Halloween basket.

Despite literally hundreds of wide-eyed press accounts last week of the “danger” of marijuana-infused Halloween candy, we are three days into November without a single instance of Halloween-related pot poisoning coming to light. None. Zero. Zilch.


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On the other hand, two Americans have caught Ebola so far in the U.S.

Denver was Ground Zero in media reports of a marijuana candy epidemic last month after Denver police released a video warning trick-or-treaters of marijuana-infused candy. Yet according to the Associated Press, “Denver Police and the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center on Monday reported no cases of people slipping marijuana to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.”

In short, nobody has tried to poison kids with weed, because poisoning kids with weed would be a dumb and expensive thing to do.

To sum things up: nobody tried to poison kids with weed this year. Here’s a handy chart if you’re still confused.