VALDOSTA, Georgia — Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2024, received a law enforcement briefing from officials at the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday afternoon on how drug traffickers have been increasingly making dangerous narcotics look like children’s candy.
“Most dealers are trying to reach out to our kids, so they’re trying to make it look more and more like candy,” one Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office official told Vance as they laid out drugs seized in recent weeks on a table in front of him and assembled media outlets, including Breitbart News, on Thursday.
“Is this actual candy, or is this drugs?” Vance asked as he pointed to one of the seized paraphernalia.
“No, this is actually THC,” the officers told Vance.
Then, the officials showed Vance a synthetic drug local to Georgia that looks like peanut brittle. “If a kid opened up this, they could easily confuse peanut brittle for the drug,” the other law enforcement official told Vance. “Of course, it’s all coming down the interstate. We just worked a case recently where we partnered up with Columbia County, Florida, and we got 30 kilos of cocaine that was coming from Texas, of course, from the border over there — he had already dropped 20 kilos. We got him with 30 in Columbia County. So, they’re using this interstate as a thoroughfare.”
Every interstate highway is a drug thoroughfare.