A 6-year-old boy was hospitalized Friday after eating drug-laced candy at a North Carolina restaurant.

Katherine Butterright thought she bought freeze-dried Skittles before her son actually took the dietary dose of Delta-9, which is 13 times the adult dose. according to to the New York Post.

“He was in excruciating pain,” Butterlight told the magazine.

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According to the report, the boy ingested nearly 40 candies laced with the drug and while playing duck pins with his family, he quickly developed burning pain in his pelvis, freezing sensations in his chest, headaches and abdominal pain. It is said that Other family members, including Butterlight's fiancé, parents, and other children, ate the THC-infused snacks without any repercussions. But they only had 1-2 pieces each.

“But he didn't show any symptoms that my child was actually suffering from. He just had this grin on his face,” Butterlight's mother said.

According to the report, Butterlight's son had been wanting to try the crunchy version of Skittles ever since he discovered it on YouTube. Buttereit allowed people to try the candy at the Common Market in Charlotte's South End neighborhood. (Related: North Carolina seizes $170,000 worth of drug-laced candy and snacks ahead of Halloween)

“I said, 'Sure, yeah, that's cool. Let's try it.' And he handed me the bag, and I handed it to the cashier, and she shoved it, and we made the transaction. ,” the mother said. She said: “I was never asked for any identification. I was never told what I was buying.”

Butterlight's fiancé read the candy's ingredients and discovered it contained delta-9, the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, the paper said. Doctors told the mother that the long-term effects on the child were unknown.

“He said it was marijuana pot and three adult side servings,” Butterwright said. “At that point, he had consumed about a third of the package, which equates to about 30 to 40 units estimated at the hospital.”

The child, who weighed about 40 pounds, slept for 17 hours at the hospital before being discharged, the newspaper reported. He slept more when he got home.