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Vancouver police had to do some embarrassing backpedalling Monday following a social media freakout over the supposedly deadly dangers of "shatter."
Perhaps not realizing shatter (a.k.a. wax or dabs), is just a concentrated form of weed, the cops sent out a bunch of tweets over the weekend warning people about the drug.
"Parents!!!! Please educate your children on the dangers of 'Shatter'. We cannot lose any more young people to senseless overdoses" read a tweet from the force's gang unit referring to an absolutely bogus scenario that has never happened. Another tweet containing a photo of shatter claimed the drug "can cause temporary psychosis. Looks like toffee. This was seized in a traffic stop tonight. BEWARE."
Aside from the toffee comparison, there's no truth to any of these claims, which the police themselves admitted on Twitter Monday:
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