Urban Legends About Drugs

Drug Laced Sweets given to children

This legend showed up on the internet just before Halloween in the year 2004. The legend spread that drug dealers were giving children sweets (specifically lollipops) laced with THC and PCP. These caused the child victims a great deal of harm. However, the United States DEA found and confiscated suckers containing THC and PCP in Chicago, Spring 2004. This is not the first time such sweet drugs have been found. Psilocybin mushrooms covered in chocolate were found in Texas, while lollipops in New York were found to have been hollowed out and filled with heroin. Both of these cases were designed in order to avoid detection by law enforcement, and no evidence has come to light which shows that these sweet drugs were ever given to children.

The Captured Gnome

Another common legend details the plight of a group of drugged up teachers who hallucinate seeing a gnome (or a dwarf), capture it and then bring it home with them. They then sleep off the effects of the drugs, and in the morning they wake up sober. They then discover that the “gnome” they are supposed to have found is in fact a child. Usually this story has a negative spin on it, with the teenagers being labelled as kidnappers and criminals. Sometimes, though, they are hailed as heroes who found a child that was lost in the city, unable to find their parents.

Drugs Inside Baby Corpses

This legend first started appearing on the internet in 1996, and can be dated back to 1970. It claimed that drug traffickers smuggled their drugs in hollowed-out babies to avoid being caught by law enforcement and border control checkpoints. These babies were kidnapped from tourists, and are then killed, cut open and filled with drugs before being stitched shut again. This was supposed to more easily allow the drugs to be smuggled across the border. However, US Customs has no recorded instances of this ever happening.