Methamphetamine-Laced Candy Handed Out at New Zealand Food Bank

A food bank in New Zealand has unwittingly been handing out sweets laced with potentially lethal doses of methamphetamine in its food parcels, it was revealed on Wednesday. The Auckland City Mission charity said that staff had begun contacting up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets, which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. Three people were treated in hospital after consuming the narcotic candies, which were donated by a member of the public, according to New Zealand authorities. The amount of methamphetamine in each sweet was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal, according to the New Zealand Drug Foundation....