Just days before Halloween, Montreal police have uncovered a fright of their own: thousands of weed-laced candies disguised as ordinary sweets.

Officers arrested two people after seizing the cannabis-infused edibles in a series of raids led by the Southwest Criminal Investigations Division and the West Narcotics Section, police said in a statement Thursday.

The seizures included 25.5 kilograms of hashish, 25.5 kilograms of cannabis, 9.8 kilograms of cannabis-infused chocolate and 8,505 bags of THC-laced gumballs, police said. Many wrapped in bright, child-friendly packaging that could easily be mistaken for regular candy.

“Thanks to the rigorous work of our investigators, these potentially dangerous products have been removed from circulation,” said Cmdr. Sylvain Dumouchel of the Montre

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