Iwas at a party where there were brownies. We made the usual jokes about how they might be pot brownies, or PCP brownies, or fentanyl brownies. Then I was like, wait—IS there such a thing as fentanyl brownies? Do I need to add this deadly confection to my list of things to worry about? —Alice B. Tokeless

I think I get your logic here, Alice: Pot is a drug, and pot brownies really exist, so you’re worried that crazed hopheads might be turning other drugs into desserts as well. Soon we’ll be hip deep in methedrine marzipan, PCP petits fours, bath salts blancmanges and psilocybin syllabub. Sacre bleu!

Color me unconvinced. That said, if only the locus of your concern were cocaine cannoli, you’d have even less to worry about: Cocaine is much less bioavailable when swallowed than when sno

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