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The gummy candies were found individually wrapped. But when opened, they appeared to be coated in a substance similar to flakka.
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Florida police have discovered a street drug they've never seen before: gummy candy laced with a flakka-like substance.
Drug-laced candy recovered by Miami-Dade police.
Business Insider reports a narcotics investigation by Miami-Dade police found individually wrapped candies covered in a substance similar to flakka -- a chemical drug resembling bath salts.
Flakka is becoming common in Florida, but it has also appeared in Ohio and Texas. It looks similar to gravel, but can be refined to even smaller crystals that can resemble sugar coating found on candy.
Criminalist Stephen Snipes tells CBS Miami that the drug-laced candy is "much stickier than the actual commercial product and it was individually wrapped."
In its original form, flakka can be snorted, smoked, injected and swallowed, Business Insider adds. The deadly drug has been linked with serious behavioral problems, such as hallucinations and paranoia.