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it's tuesday october 11th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Another Halloween, another candy tampering panic.

And while these panics rarely, if ever, bear fruit, poisoned candy and concerns around it have a longer history than you might suspect.

Plus, a voter fraud scandal has rocked the wholesome Fat Bear Week contest.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

It's that time of year.

The leaves are beginning to change colors. Pumpkin spice everything is filling the grocery store end caps, and local authorities are telling people about the latest trend in Halloween candy tampering. Last year, it was premium-priced T-HC candies designed to look like actual bags of Starburst and Sour Patch Kids.

This year, rainbow-colored fentanyl.

Like the THC candies, the product does actually exist.

But the idea that any drug dealer would be just giving away mass amounts of their product to random small kids is a bit hard to

believe.

Selling fentanyl in cool-looking colors to attract teenagers and younger adults?

Yes, it could be.

And the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has reported that that's exactly what's happening.

Although other drug experts say the color

coding is to differentiate product types and levels not to attract teenagers. But the pills are

not being handed out for free in trick-or-treat bags to elementary schoolers, as Senator

Chuck Schumer and others have been claiming. Or at least there is no evidence for this,

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