About 15 trick-or-treaters, ages 1 to 6, walked away from an Ocean Beach porch on Halloween with bags of psilocybin gummies, San Diego police say. Two men who live at the home are now under arrest.

The bags sat on the porch of a home in the 2100 block of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard shortly before 6 p.m. on Oct. 31, Patch reported, citing the San Diego Police Department. Parents spotted them, confronted the residents and called police. A package they saved tested positive for psilocybin.

What police found after the psilocybin gummies report

On Wednesday, officers and narcotics detectives searched the home. They found a bag of suspected psilocybin gummies identical to the ones left out on Halloween.

Detectives also seized more than 2.5 pounds of marijuana and more than 25 grams of methamphetamine. They took a digital scale, packaging materials and drug sales ledgers, KESQ reported. Police recovered an illegally possessed rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a partially assembled pistol.

Psilocybin gummies and other edibles keep reaching children

Poison center data show the problem is not limited to one porch. A study in BMC Public Health found recreational drug ingestions among children under 6 rose 3,307 percent from 2000 to 2024. Senior author Dr. Gary Smith said the increases were “especially pronounced for edible marijuana and psilocybin products.”

Older kids are affected too. Psilocybin calls to poison centers involving teens tripled from 152 in 2018 to 464 in 2022, a 2024 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found. The rise followed the first city and state decriminalization votes in 2019. Separate data show hallucinogen use disorder among teens rose 41 percent from 2023 to 2024.

“It is markedly concerning to me that children are gaining access to these products,” Dr. Christopher Holstege of the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison Center said at the time.

Decriminalization has not kept these products off store shelves either. Last month in Colorado, which decriminalized psilocybin in 2022, police raided seven smoke shops and liquor stores accused of selling it.

Psilocybin remains illegal under California law, though lawmakers there have pushed psychedelics bills for several sessions. In New Jersey, then-Gov. Phil Murphy signed a $6 million psilocybin research pilot in January. A broader bill, S3148, would license psilocybin service centers for adults 21 and older.

In Ocean Beach, the oldest child to pick up a bag was 6.

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