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A shop on London’s Oxford Street is ­flogging the biscuits and claims they ­include THC, the illegal element in ­cannabis that creates an hallucinogenic effect.

Our reporter picked up a box of the chocolate drug cookies for £25 and was told the treats were not illegal because they were made outside the UK.

Joe, the assistant manager of the Rock ­London store, said: “They are not illegal, they were baked in Amsterdam, not here, so it is OK to sell them in the UK. It is safe.”

The shop advertises its cannabis range in front of the shop, luring customers in with promises of “more bongs and smoking pipes inside”.

The shop also offers cannabis products aimed at young children, although they are not believed to be illegal.

Hashish lollipops, cannabis-flavoured sweets and cannabis energy drinks are on sale ­alongside cannabis chocolate and hashish leaves for smoking.

We bought cannabis cookies, two lollipops, a cannabis energy drink, cannabis coffee and two sachets of mushroom tea and cannabis tea for £50, with staff in the shop telling us we had got “a good deal”.

One employee said: “If you like a cannabis smoke then you will love the cookies. You will chill out, relax and love them.”

But charities have slammed the ­ “provocative” products, claiming such shops make a living out of “trying to make drugs sexy”. David Raynes, of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: “If they are selling these cookies they are acting illegally.

“It could be false advertising and there may be no drugs in it at all but these sorts of ­products lower the resistance to drug taking.

“If these cookies do have THC in them then it is highly illegal.

“Someone could take them, get high and drive a car or ride a bike adversely.

“They are trying to make their products sexy by attaching names of illegal drugs to their products. They are trying to be provocative.”

When we asked in the shop about the typical customers they sold to, we were told: “We sell a lot to children.

“They like the flavour of the lollipops but they are not dangerous.”

A spokesman for Westminster City Council confirmed they were not aware of the items being sold.

He said: “This is a police issue as it is illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

“While we deal with public safety, banned substances are dealt with by the police.”