Posted on 09/26/2014 3:18:34 PM PDT by markomalley
A Connecticut high school student is heading to juvenile court after she allegedly dished out pot lollipops to her friends at school and one of them ate three and got sick.
Police are not releasing the name of a minor girl who was detained and questioned for giving marijuana lollipops to her friends at Enfield High School this week. The girl allegedly told authorities she received the lollipops in the mail from California, but denied giving them to another girl who gobbled down three before complaining to the nurse that she felt sick, the Star Tribune reports.
The second girl was taken to the hospital and later released.
“They are very dangerous, and they mess with your heart,” according to the sick girl’s mother, Eva Reyes-Portis, who alleges her daughter didn’t know the suckers contained THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
“They hallucinate,” she told WTNH.com.
Police and school officials are reportedly still investigating to determine how many lollipops were given out, the television station reports.
“The FDA is not overseeing the strength of this stuff, the cleanliness of this stuff, so to put this stuff in your mouth is a foolish thing to do,” Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said.
Reyes-Portis and others are very worried that the marijuana candy could still get in the wrong hands.
“A lollipop is specifically for kids, they are targeting kids, and we are too close to Halloween, please be careful with these pops,” Reyes-Portis warned.
“You just don’t know what is out there, you say don’t accept candy from strangers, you don’t say don’t accept candy from your friends,” Enfield resident Debra Lang told WTNH. “It’s very strange.”
Many people who posted about the story doubted the hallucinogenic effects described by Reyes-Portis, and believed the whole situation was blown out of proportion.
“’They are very dangerous, and they miss with your heart, they hallucinate,’ said Eva Reyes-Portis, Enfield. Then the author follows this ridiculous statement with ‘Eva knows what she is talking about.’ I sincerely hope that is meant to be facticious or sarcastic because clearly Eva Reyes-Portis does not know what she is talking about,” Sherri Kessler posted to the WTNH report.
“I use medical marijuana on a daily basis, in fact multiple times a day, and yes it’s legal where I live, and it does not mess with my heart or cause me to hallucinate. In fact the DEA has come out and said that THC has medicinal properties and given pharmaceutical companies the green light to produce Marinol a derivative or marijuana,” she wrote.
“Could have just sent the girl home, given her a bag or a few bags of Cheetos, and let her watch TV all day. I understand she’s never had pot before but instead of all the adults freaking out saying she is gonna die just tell her to sit back and relax,” posted nymetswinws.
Just a case of the munchies...
The only thing different about pot is it is almost impossible to die of an overdose as it is difficult to ingest enough fast enough.
About 30 college students die of alcohol overdose every year. But I still drink my wine.
To Sherri Kessler: Everyone might have a different reaction to the same drug, even if it’s legal.
Everyone who’s straight should be planning much in advance about what to do, when it’s done to their own loved ones—ongoing planning with ongoing, nonstop development. Perfect your plans and keep doing so.
poisoning people is what this is.
throw the book at them
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