Several versions of this leaflet are circulating in Wallonia and Brussels. And we were able to trace the – probable – origin of this urban legend, coming from the United States, passing through Quebec and Nice (where there is a Saint-Roch hospital). And there is a grain of truth to this story.
Eight years earlier, in 1980, the Narcotics Bureau of the New Jersey State Police made a somewhat surprising seizure of drugs: blotters impregnated with LSD, on which figure Mickey Mouse, in a costume from Fantasia. The American police write a circular on this particular new graphic design, and place a sentence at the top of the document. “Warning, children could confuse these blotters with tattoos to be transferred to the skin.” This sentence marks the beginning of the rumor. The idea of “LSD packaging looks like children’s tattoos” will become, “children’s tattoos contain LSD”
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