The rap festival, called “The Last Weekend on Earth”, became one big, bad trip after someone started passing around colorful packs of so-called “medibles” around 11 a.m., police said.
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THC usually gives people a sense of euphoria.
Twenty people were treated for opioid overdose symptoms at a music festival in OH after an unknown individual passed what appeared to by candy laced with a substance officials believe was heroin. Officials say that each piece had “a very, very high dose of THC” and only one or two sweets would get you nice and high, but some concertgoers were stupidly consuming whole bags at a time, perhaps thinking it was regular candy.
The commander of a regional drug task force disagreed with characterizing people’s reactions as overdoses.
The Mansfield News Journal reported that 24 people overdosed after ingesting THC-laced candy marked as “Nerds”.
Earlier Saturday, Masi said the victims were treated by firefighters with naloxone, as if they had overdosed on opiates. Do not cut, copy or lift any content from this website without our consent. According to an official with Ohio Dreams, EST Fest 2016 leased the property from the camp for the weekend. THC is the psychoactive compound found in marijuana.
A witness saw a person throwing candy packets into the crowd. Butler is about 90 miles southwest of Cleveland. The Ohio band Machine Gun Kelly is scheduled to perform as the headliner.
The packages Gross is accused of giving out contained about 20 sweets each and started circulating at the festival between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Saturday, Richland County Sheriff’s Maj. “They just felt different”.
“Each had a very, very high dose”, Masi said.
Staff from the music festival and the property where the music festival is taking place are cooperating with the investigation.
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Sheriff Steve Sheldon tells 10TV the investigation is ongoing, but they believe the people overdosed after eating laced candy.
