“I worked in an ER for years. If you leave something that looks like food or drink laying around, a child will pick it up and put it in their mouth. That is a fact. It keeps poison control in business.”
They won’t drink it down thinking it’s kool aid like they would dope cookies.
Booze and bleach don’t taste like candy to a small child.
In the old days, they used alcohol tincture.
Kids eat and drink like they run and jump, the deed is done before the brain reacts. I’m not arguing putting drugs in candy is a good idea, it is a recipe for disaster but kids do gulp down chemicals, it happens every day.