Last week Philadelphia news outlets reported that THC gummies being sold from area tobacco stores were tainted with fentanyl and heroin, leading to a pair of overdoses.
Investigators say heroin and fentanyl were found in some of the Strictly Delta brand of ‘Delta 8 THC 600 MG Happy Cubes’ sold at three Tobacco Hut stores..."Urb Extrax" and "Pinewood Coned," which were also sold at the stores, tested positive for fentanyl, according to the District Attorney's Office.
That these goofily-named, mass-produced, over-the-counter products were laced with potentially-deadly illicit drugs was fairly shocking news. Keep in mind that recreational weed is not legal in Pennsylvania, but Delta 8, a cannabinoid strain derived from hemp, can be sold owing to a loophole in the law.
This represented perhaps the first reported instance of fentanyl being used to adulterate a THC product, a phenomenon I’d long believed was an urban legend….