Tricks-Not-Treats: Halloween Predator Panic Laws

I remember coming home from “trick-or-treating” as a child and turning over my bag of candy to my mother for  inspection. After all, one of our neighbors could have slipped rat poison in our Tootsie Rolls or razor blades in our apples. Aside from certain choice pieces missing as a result of mom’s ingestion… er, “inspection” process, my mother never found any razor blades or rat poison in our Halloween Candy. Despite virtually no confirmed cases of Halloween poisonings, the myth has remained a constant in our culture [1]. Full…

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