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Met Police warn of ‘dangerous new threat’ of spiking using vapes laced with spice

Source: Nikolay Vinokurov/Alamy/PA

Vapes laced with spice are being used to spike people in what police have labelled a “very dangerous new threat”.

The Metropolitan Police issued a fresh warning over the devices at an event about tackling spiking this month as reports increased by 13 per cent in 2023, with the number of allegations made reaching 1,383.

As vapes surge in popularity, the force revealed it is increasingly common across devices that contain chemicals other than nicotine, including THC, the psychoactive found in cannabis, and

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