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Four children were taken to hospital after they ate sweets thought to contain cannabis.
Ambulance teams were called when some of the children, aged 12 and 13, started vomiting and falling in and out of consciousness in Epsom on Saturday.
Surrey Police said it did not have a clear description of the sweets but they were reported as green jelly circles called jelly apple rings .
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Police said ambulance teams were called to Pound Lane in the town at about 14:15 BST on Saturday after a boy and girl, both aged 12, and another boy, 13, suffered a violent reaction.
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Four children taken to hospital after eating sweets which they believed contained cannabis are not thought to have suffered any long-term effects, police said.
But Surrey Police said the youngsters were “lucky” not to have been more seriously affected by whatever they ate, and the source of the sweets was still being investigated.
The force said they were called by the South East Coast Ambulance Service to a parade of shops on Pound Lane, Epsom, at 2.15pm on Saturday, where three children were vomiting uncontrollably and falling in and out of consciousness.
Update on the four children admitted to hospital after they ate sweets they believe contained cannabis yesterday (they are fine – but they were lucky!):https://t.co/A5L1Py8TqW
By Press Association 2021
Police
Four children taken to hospital after eating sweets which they believed contained cannabis are not thought to have suffered any long-term effects, police said.
But Surrey Police said the youngsters were “lucky” not to have been more seriously affected by whatever they ate, and the source of the sweets was still being investigated.
The force said they were called by the South East Coast Ambulance Service to a parade of shops on Pound Lane, Epsom, at 2.15pm on Saturday, where three children were vomiting uncontrollably and falling in and out of consciousness.
Update on the four children admitted to hospital after they ate sweets they believe contained cannabis yesterday (they are fine – but they were lucky!):https://t.co/A5L1Py8TqW
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