Parker Molloy: It’s Halloween, which means it’s time to dredge up the annual panic stories about drug-laced candy.

The “strangers might drug your kids’ Halloween candy” meme is mostly an urban legend. There’s a 1959 incident involving a dentist who handed out 450 pieces of candy-covered laxatives to trick-or-treaters, making as many as 30 of the recipients sick.

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