Five children hospitalized after consuming jelly sweets with HHC

Five schoolchildren from different schools in the Karlovy Vary region ended up in hospital in January after consuming jelly sweets containing HHC, which are legally available on the internet and in vending machines. According to Novinky.cz a number of them ended up in intensive care. It is not clear how much of the sweets they consumed since the symptoms included confusion and partial loss of memory. Products with HHC are sold in various vending machines, for example in hypermarkets, in the form of gelatin cubes, balls or teddy bears of various colors and flavors. They contain the psychoactive compound HHC as a food supplement.