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Please, please can anyone help-are these drugs? (photo)

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missmouse101 · 18/07/2019 21:00

My husband ate a sweet he found in our daughter's car. He feels extremely disorientated and unwell now. It m ay not be linked at all, but we have suddenly thought could the sweet have actually been a drug? Totally shocked, praying it isn't. Does anyone recognise these? Thanks so much.

Please, please can anyone help-are these drugs? (photo)
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HeadintheiClouds · 19/07/2019 22:39

Maybe she didn’t realise her Dad was going to be driving her car when she was away? Why was he, op? Or was he just nosing in the glove compartment?

winniestone37 · 19/07/2019 22:56

WHAT HAPPENED???????

taylorowmu · 19/07/2019 23:10

Nothing happened.

SushiTime · 19/07/2019 23:18

Ok so I'm home alone, had too much wine and abit bored.

This has had me properly giggling, amazing thread. Needs to move to classics!

Trixibell79 · 19/07/2019 23:55

sushi you need a good book. OP these ridiculous posters finding it all so amusing must be doing your head in. If I were you I’d consider pulling this thread. You have had your original question responded to and now it’s all just been derailed. Hope your husband feels better tomorrow

llizzie · 20/07/2019 00:02

You do not say how old your husband is. It is assumed from the posts that he is elderly because obviously he has a child with a car. He could be middle aged. Why would anyone eat something they do not recognise? Did he think it was a sweet, or was it known drug which contains the 'wrong' ingredients?

I am against supermarkets selling help yourself items in case someone has put something in instead of taking out. Children should be warned never to take a drink from an open bottle or eat anything that isn't sealed. If children can be taught that, why not adults?

EllenMP · 20/07/2019 00:52

Edible cannabis is often sold in sweet form, and is a very common way to ingest it now, because it's easy to buy over the internet. They often have a homemade look, wrapped by hand in paper or cellophane rather than in professional printed packaging. So they look like gummy bears in a little plain plastic ziploc, or uneven looking toffees wrapped in waxed paper. These look like they could well be edible cannabis sweets of some sort, (which will taste more or less like sweets) in which case you hubby will be high for a little while and then fine again, assuming he only ate one. Sometimes they are pretty powerful. I hear. Like, someone else told me...

SushiTime · 20/07/2019 01:24

@Trixibell79 I have actually started one now. I'm sorry for not being sensitive OP. MN is funny sometimes though Grin

Aria999 · 20/07/2019 03:03

I didn’t think it was funny either OP or understand why people are being so unpleasant. Hope all ok.

Isthisreallylife · 20/07/2019 03:44

I don’t understand why, when it’s OP who has asked for help only, do so many women question her husbands sanity in digesting something off the floor of her daughters car! I mean, what’s the point? She’s asked for our help!
And secondly, don’t we all know the old adage - “if it has a penis then don’t even try to understand it”!

haggistramp · 20/07/2019 04:44

I find this thread hilarious, obviously sympathy for your poor unsuspecting dh but I'd probably eat unknown sweets out of a close friend or relatives car too. So has your dd admitted it was drugs then? I thought i rtft but difnt see where that was said.

Sabich · 20/07/2019 05:32

Apparently dd said it was weed sweets.

DH is fine now.

I don't feel very 'street' now after reading this thread, no idea about edible drugs

flowergrrl77 · 20/07/2019 07:03

Just wondering how the chat with the daughter went....

louise5754 · 20/07/2019 08:04

This is why you can't rely on MN for advice.

It's gone from definitely cocaine to definitely weed to definitely pineapple sweets.

BusterGonad · 20/07/2019 08:09

I'm finding it a bit strange that people think it is weird to eat a sweet they find in a close family members car, if I drove my husbands car (which I often do, maybe once every other day) and I found some sweets in a paper bag (like the ones that get measured up in an old fashioned sweet shop) then I'm going to try one, not one single ounce of me would be worried, thinking "what the hell are theses, and are they actually sweets?" Seriously, it's not as if he found them on the pavement, or in a bin. Admittedly they look a bit odd but maybe that's the type of boiled sweet the family favours?

taylorowmu · 20/07/2019 08:17

Apparently dd said it was weed sweets.

Did she?

BayandBlonde · 20/07/2019 10:11

So is this it?? Confused

We will never know what the manky teeth were, what the daughter said and whether DH feels like shit this morning.

OP you have a duty to come back and conclude this Smile

Knittedjimmychoos · 20/07/2019 10:14

Buster same here it's perfectly plausible to eat from sweet tin in car!

Poor man whod have thought such innocent action have such repercussion.

op if its any consolation my lab, of a hubby frequently gets food stuck in his throat because he doesn't chew first.

It happened yesterday, he wasn't able to ingest anything from 13pm to this morning.
At one point he said he thought about swolloing a small vibrstor to try and shift it Grin. I asked permission to post here about the consequences if he did and the subsequent a and e visit.

BiBiBirdie · 20/07/2019 10:28

@LoseLooseLucy GrinGrinGrin
Just Say No Kids
(And Dad's who fiddle about in cars that don't belong to them, eating random stuff without a care in the world)

BiBiBirdie · 20/07/2019 10:33

Oh and please please put this in classics
OP for the record, I don't think anyone has been deliberately mean, some of it did sound a bit far fetched (like the swift A+E visit), but this will eventually be a funny anecdote when you've had time to calm down.
Hope DH is OK

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missmouse101 · 20/07/2019 10:34

My final post on this. Husband is 52, daughter 18. We often drive her car, nothing abnormal there. We live in a rural small town which has an old fashioned sweet shop selling sweets in paper bags, which we buy sometimes. The photo shows a purple paper bag with a white sticker on to seal it. He drove her car, mainly to check it was ok before she came back, as it hadn't been driven for 3 weeks. Needed item from glove box, found sweet bag, fancied one and ate one. No thought for a second it wasn't sweets, why would he? Agree they look like pineapple chunk sweets.

D had been to a camping party. They got stored in her glovebox. They are cannabis sweets. H is fine now, talk with D went ok. She is very upset and understands the seriousness of this and the implications of taking and driving about with illegal drugs.

Pps who have called me miserable, batshit, a troll, a liar, a fanny of a woman, puritanical etc are simply trash and I pay them no attention. Anyone who thinks I am a dick regarding my being extremely concerned about finding drugs in my daughter's car, is not fit to be a parent themselves. Thanks so much to the lovely and helpful posters. You really helped when it first happened. Smile

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QueenofPain · 20/07/2019 10:44

@Hidingwhoiam

A doctor wouldn’t have been able to ID the exact substance or dose with 100% confidence either.

And there are now nurses and paramedics (and maybe some other AHP’s) who work in A&E depts who can take a history, examine, request and interpret tests and discharge or admit to specialities, without the patient ever seeing a doctor. They’re called Advanced Clinical Practitioners, I am one of them.

However, it’s most likely that the OP and DH saw the massive queue while waiting to be triaged, the DH felt much better, and then when they got to the triage nurse, he said “oh you know what, I feel much better” and the nurse probably said “oh, well it’s you choice if you want to go, your observations are all okay...”, and he probably made the decision himself.

GrabbyGertie · 20/07/2019 10:45

That’s a good final post OP. Glad things went ok with your daughter. Hopefully it was just a once off.

AutumnCrow · 20/07/2019 10:47

It could be the perfectly legal CBD cannabis stuff though. I've got loads, from a legal shop in England.

LoseLooseLucy · 20/07/2019 10:50

I'd make a joke about you taking a chill pill after your update OP but I don't want to be branded an unfit parent Grin

Glad all is well.